| By Ms. Creem (by request), a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 316) of Donna Pasquarosa for legislation relative to school surveys. Education |
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
SECTION 1.
Chapter 71 of the General laws, as appearing in the 2000 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding after section 32A the following new section:-
32B. No student shall be required to submit to a survey, analysis, or evaluation that reveals information concerning: (1) political affiliations; (2) mental and psychological problems potentially embarrassing to the student or his family; (3) sex behavior and attitudes; (4) illegal, anti-social, self-incriminating and demeaning behavior; (5) critical appraisals of other individuals with whom respondents have close family relationships; (6) legally recognized privileged or analogous relationships, such as those of lawyers, physicians and ministers; or (7) income, other than that required by law to determine eligibility for participation in a program or for receiving financial assistance under such program, without the prior consent of the student, if the student is an adult or emancipated minor, or in the case of an unemancipated minor, without the prior written consent of the parent or guardian.