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HR 2769 112th Congress House

Parental Consent Act of 2011

Official title: To prohibit the use of Federal funds for any universal or mandatory mental health screening program.

Introduced: August 1, 2011 See on congress.gov
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Sep 8, 2011
Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
Aug 5, 2011
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Aug 1, 2011
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, 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.
Aug 1, 2011
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1476-1477)
Aug 1, 2011
Introduced in House
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 Latest action September 8, 2011

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

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Parental Consent Act of 2011 - 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.

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Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 6
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Republican 1
Hensarling, Jeb
· Oct 11, 2011
 R
Blackburn, Marsha
Tennessee · Aug 1, 2011
BURTON, DAN
· Aug 1, 2011
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2769: Parental Consent Act of 2011. 112th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/112-HR-2769/
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"H.R. 2769: Parental Consent Act of 2011." 112th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/112-HR-2769/.
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H.R. 2769, 112th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/112-HR-2769/.
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