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IN SB0435
Bill
AI Summary
SB 435 Summary
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Requires school corporations to include mental health wellness education in their health education curriculum, covering stigma, resources, positive mental health, and understanding of mental illnesses.
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Mental health wellness education must address anxiety disorders, hyperactivity disorders, eating disorders, self-mutilation, depression, schizophrenia, and causes/prevention/control of mental illness without stigma.
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Allows school governing bodies to provide mental health screenings to students only with written consent from the student's parent or guardian.
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Requires the Indiana Department of Education to provide mental health wellness resources to school corporations upon request.
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Effective July 1, 2017.
Legislative Description
Mental health education and screenings. Requires a school corporation's health education curriculum to include mental health wellness education. Provides that the governing body of a school corporation may provide mental health screenings to students if the written consent of the student's parent or guardian is received. Requires the department of education to provide a school corporation with resources regarding mental health wellness upon request by the school corporation.
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Education
3/13/2017