AN ACT CONCERNING STUDENT PRIVACY AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE ARMED SERVICES VOCATIONAL APTITUDE BATTERY.

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

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) Each local and regional board of education shall require any person who administers the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery at a school under the jurisdiction of such board to select as the score-reporting option on such battery the option in which the results of such battery are not released to recruiting services, such as representatives of the armed forces of the United States of America and state armed services. Nothing in this section shall prohibit a student who is eighteen years of age or older at the time such student takes such battery or the parent or guardian of any other student taking such battery from releasing the results of such student to a recruiting service. Such board shall provide written notice to students taking such battery and the parents or guardians of such students taking such battery of the provisions of this section.

Statement of Purpose:

To require school districts to select the option that student test results on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery not be released to recruiting services.

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