Indiana Code Title 20. Education § 20-30-5-17

Sec. 17. (a) Each school corporation shall make available for inspection by the parent of a student any instructional materials, including teachers' manuals, curricular materials, films or other video materials, tapes, and other materials, used in connection with:

(b) The governing body of a school corporation shall publish a list of any instructional materials, including teachers' manuals, curricular materials, films or other video materials, tapes, and other materials, used in connection with instruction on human sexuality on the school's website.

(c) A student shall not be required to participate in a personal analysis, an evaluation, or a survey that is not directly related to academic instruction and that reveals or attempts to affect the student's attitudes, habits, traits, opinions, beliefs, or feelings concerning:

without the prior consent of the student if the student is an adult or an emancipated minor or the prior written consent of the student's parent if the student is an unemancipated minor.  A parental consent form for a personal analysis, an evaluation, or a survey described in this subsection shall accurately reflect the contents and nature of the personal analysis, evaluation, or survey.

(d) Before a school may provide a student with instruction on human sexuality, the school must provide the parent of the student or the student, if the student is an adult or an emancipated minor, with a written request for consent of instruction.  A consent form provided to a parent of a student or a student under this subsection must include the following information:

The written consent form may be sent in an electronic format.  If the written consent form is sent in an electronic format, the form must include a link to the list of materials published under subsection (b).  The parent of the student or the student, if the student is an adult or an emancipated minor, may return the consent form indicating that the parent of the student or the adult or emancipated student consents to the instruction or declines instruction.  If a student does not participate in the instruction on human sexuality, the school shall provide the student with alternative academic instruction during the same time frame that the instruction on human sexuality is provided.

(e) If the parent of the student or the student, if the student is an adult or an emancipated minor, does not respond to the written request provided by the school under subsection (d) within twenty-one (21) calendar days after receiving the request under subsection (d), the school shall provide the parent of the student, or the student, if the student is an adult or an emancipated minor, a written notice requesting that the parent of the student, or the student, if the student is an adult or an emancipated minor, indicate, in a manner prescribed by the school, whether the parent of the student or the adult or emancipated student consents to the instruction or declines instruction.  A notice provided to a parent of a student or a student under this subsection must include the following information:

The notice may be sent in an electronic format.  If the written consent form is sent in an electronic format, the form must include a link to the list of materials published under subsection (b).  If the school does not receive a response within ten (10) days after the notice, the student will receive the instruction on human sexuality unless the parent or the adult or emancipated student subsequently opts out of the instruction for the student.

(f) The department and the governing body shall give parents and students notice of their rights under this section.

(g) The governing body shall enforce this section.