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Parental Consent Act of 2009

Introduced: April 30, 2009 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 8 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jun 4, 2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
May 4, 2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Apr 30, 2009
Referred to House Education and Labor
Apr 30, 2009
Referred to House Ways and Means
Apr 30, 2009
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Apr 30, 2009
Referred to House Energy and Commerce
Apr 30, 2009
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1036)
Apr 30, 2009
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Parental Consent Act of 2009 - Prohibits federal funds from being used to establish or implement any universal or mandatory mental health, psychiatric, or socioemotional screening program.

Prohibits federal education funds from being used to pay any local educational agency or other instrument of government that uses the refusal of a parent or legal guardian to provide consent to mental health screening as the basis of a charge of child abuse, child neglect, medical neglect, or education neglect until the agency or instrument demonstrates that it is no longer using such refusal as a basis of such charge.

Defines a screening program under this Act as any mental health screening program in which a set of individuals is automatically screened without regard to whether there was a prior indication of a need for mental health treatment, including: (1) any program of state incentive grants to implement recommendations in the July 2003 report of the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, the State Early Childhood Comprehensive System, grants for TeenScreen, and the Foundations for Learning Grants; and (2) any student mental health screening program that allows mental health screening of individuals under 18 years of age without the express, written, voluntary, informed consent of the parent or legal guardian of the individual involved.

What's happening now June 4, 2009

Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 5
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Republican 1
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Blackburn, Marsha
Tennessee · Apr 30, 2009
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2218: Parental Consent Act of 2009. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-2218/
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"H.R. 2218: Parental Consent Act of 2009." 111th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-2218/.
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H.R. 2218, 111th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-2218/.
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