00                      CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 408(HES)                                                                    
01 "An Act relating to questionnaires and surveys administered in the public schools."                                     
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1.  AS 14.03.110(a) is repealed and reenacted to read:                                                   
04            (a)  A school district or an employee of a school district may not administer or                             
05       permit administration of a questionnaire or survey to a class or student that inquires                            
06       into personal or private family affairs of the student not a matter of public record or                           
07       subject to public observation, unless written permission is obtained from the student's                           
08       parent or legal guardian.  This subsection does not apply to a questionnaire or survey                            
09       that is anonymous.                                                                                                
10    * Sec. 2.  AS 14.03.110(b) is repealed and reenacted to read:                                                      
11            (b)  If a school district administers an anonymous questionnaire or survey that                              
12       inquires into personal or private family affairs of a student not a matter of public                              
13       record or subject to public observation, even though written permission from a                                    
14       student's parent or legal guardian is not required, the school district shall provide each                        
15       student's parent or legal guardian the opportunity to submit to the school principal a                            

01       written denial of permission to take the questionnaire or survey.                                                 
02    * Sec. 3.  AS 14.03.110(c) is repealed and reenacted to read:                                                      
03            (c)  For purposes of (a) and (b) of this section, the school district shall provide                          
04       a parent or legal guardian at least two weeks' written notice of the right to grant or to                         
05       deny permission to take the questionnaire or survey before administering the                                      
06       questionnaire or survey.                                                                                          
07    * Sec. 4.  AS 14.03.110(d) is repealed and reenacted to read:                                                      
08            (d)  Written notice required to be given to a parent or guardian under this                                  
09       section must include                                                                                              
10                 (1)  an opportunity to review the questionnaire or survey to be                                         
11       administered;                                                                                                     
12                 (2)  how the questionnaire or survey will be administered to the                                        
13       student;                                                                                                          
14                 (3)  how the results of the questionnaire or survey will be used;                                       
15                 (4)  who will have access to the questionnaire or survey;                                               
16                 (5)  how to submit written                                                                              
17                      (A)  permission for the student's participation in a questionnaire                                 
18            or survey, if required; or                                                                                   
19                      (B)  denial of permission to participate in a questionnaire or                                     
20            survey, including an anonymous or specific questionnaire or survey.                                          
21    * Sec. 5.  AS 14.03.110(e) is amended to read:                                                                     
22            (e)  A student may refuse to participate in a questionnaire or survey                                        
23       administered in a public school.  A student's parent or legal guardian may refuse to                              
24       allow the student to participate in a specified questionnaire or survey by submitting to                      
25       the school principal a written denial of permission for the student's participation.