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General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 6399
January Session, 2021
AN ACT CONCERNING TH E CENTERS FOR DISEAS E CONTROL AND
PREVENTION YOUTH RIS K BEHAVIOR SURVEY.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2021) (a) For the school year 1
commencing July 1, 2022, and biennially thereafter, the Department of 2
Public Health shall administer the Connecticut School Health Survey to 3
students in grades nine to twelve, inclusive, provided the department 4
receives funding from the National Centers for Disease Control and 5
Prevention for such purpose. The survey shall be based on the Youth 6
Risk Behavior Survey developed by the National Centers for Disease 7
Control and Prevention. The department shall provide guidelines to the 8
local or regional board of education regarding the administration of the 9
survey to those high schools selected at random by the National Centers 10
for Disease Control and Prevention. Such local or regional board of 11
education shall administer the survey to each high school selected to 12
participate in the survey in accordance with the guidelines provided by 13
the department, including, but not be limited to, (1) the survey protocol 14
as required by the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 15
(2) the requirement to utilize passive parental consent before 16
administering the survey, (3) the requirement for the survey to be 17
anonymous and administered in a manner designed to protect student 18
privacy, (4) the timeframe for completion of the survey, and (5) the 19 Substitute Bill No. 6399
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process by which the results of such survey are to be submitted to the 20
department. 21
(b) The department, in consultation with the Department of Mental 22
Health and Addiction Services, the Office of Early Childhood, the 23
Department of Children and Families, the Department of Education and 24
any other agency or public interest group the department deems 25
necessary, may develop additional survey questions to be included as 26
part of the Connecticut School Health Survey that are relevant to the 27
health concerns of high school students in the state. 28
Sec. 2. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2021) Not later than October 1, 2022, 29
the Child Advocate, in consultation with the Department of Public 30
Health, shall develop and update, as necessary, questions designed to 31
assess the risk of youths becoming victims of sexual assault or 32
misconduct by an adult. Such questions shall be included as part of the 33
Connecticut School Health Survey administered pursuant to section 1 of 34
this act. 35
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2021 New section
Sec. 2 July 1, 2021 New section
KID Joint Favorable Subst.