AN ACT REQUIRING BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ASSESSMENTS FOR CHILDREN.


General Assembly		*Proposed Bill No. 374*
*January Session, 2013*		LCO No. 2001

Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
SEN. HARP, 10th Dist. REP. WALKER, 93rd Dist.

AN ACT REQUIRING BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ASSESSMENTS FOR CHILDREN.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That section 10-206 of the general statutes be amended to require (1) each pupil enrolled in public school at grades 6, 8, 10 and 12 and each home-schooled child at ages 12, 14 and 17 to have a confidential behavioral health assessment, the results of which shall be disclosed only to the child's parent or guardian, and (2) each health care provider performing a child's behavioral health assessment to complete the appropriate form supplied by the State Board of Education verifying that the child has received the assessment.

Statement of Purpose:

To provide behavioral health assessments to children.