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Minutes for HB2407 - Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care
Short Title
Creating conditions for the administration of certain tests, questionnaires, surveys and examinations and eliminating the parental consent requirements.
Minutes Content for Mon, Feb 20, 2023
The Chair called the meeting to order and opened the hearing on HB2407, The Assistant Revisor, Jessie Pringle, (Revisor) provided an overview of the bill.(Attachment 1) The Revisor stood for questions.
Proponent testimony was provided by the following:
Jim Karleskint, United School Administrators of Kansas supports the data collected by these surveys are beneficial to accessing risk factors for teens and guide school intervention and prevention. (Attachment 2)
Kyle Kessler, Association of Community Mental Health Centers in Kansas addressed, among other things, the lack of reliable data makes it difficult for agencies to complete required activities for federal block grants. (Attachment 3)
Scott Rothschild, Kansas Association of School Boards, testified the questionnaires are necessary tools that help educators gain insight to health risk behaviors of their students.(Attachment 4)
Julie Brewer, United Community Services of Johnson County, testified to the ramifications of the student data privacy act, passed in 2022; including the lack of participation of certain school districts and the low rates of participation in those districts that do participate in the Communities That Care ACT (Attachment 5)
Shana Burgess, Johnson County Mental Health Center suggest relevant data helps guide decisions, creates buy in and promotes collaboration around clearly identified priorities specific to local communities.(Attachment 6)
Monica Kurz, Kansas Suicide Prevention Headquarters, reported partnerships with local organizations requires accurate data on common risk factors for suicide and suicide ideation and planning prevalence in our local communities. (Attachment 7)
The following individuals and groups provided written only testimony in support.
Laura Howard, Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services (Attachment 8)
Daniel Klaassen, Kansas Action for Children (Attachment 9)
Kelly Peak, Greenbush, The Educational Service Center(Attachment 10)
Lauren Tice Miller, Kansas National Education Association (Attachment 11)
Patty Jurich, President, Kansas Parent Teacher Association (Attachment 12)
Lindsey Hansley, Community Health Education, along with Hannah Conner, Epidemiologist, and Susan Carman, Unified Government Public Health Department.(Attachment 13)
Chrissy Mayer, DCCCA (Attachment 14)
All proponents stood for questions.
There were no neutrals present.
The following gave opponent testimony:
Nicholas Reinecker, Private Citizen, believes the passing of this bill will disable parental consent and cause rise to deceptive practices by certain individuals. The private citizen stood for questions (Attachment 15)
The Chair closed the hearing on HB2407
