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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, the board of trustees of each school district and the governing body of each charter school that operates a middle school, junior high school or high school shall ensure that the school district or charter school, as applicable, participates in the biennial survey administered pursuant to the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, or any equivalent or successor system developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
2. A public school shall not administer the survey described in subsection 1 to a pupil if:
(a) The pupil is an unemancipated minor and the parent or guardian of the pupil has refused to consent to the administration of the survey pursuant to subsection 5; or
(b) The pupil has refused to participate in the survey pursuant to subsection 5.
3. The board of trustees of a school district or the governing body of a charter school that operates as a middle school, junior high school or high school shall ensure that a form is provided to the parent or guardian of each pupil to whom the survey described in subsection 1 will be administered that allows the parent or guardian to refuse consent to the administration of the survey to the pupil.
4. Before the administration of the survey described in subsection 1 to a pupil, the board of trustees of a school district or the governing body of a charter school shall provide the parent or guardian of the pupil or, if the pupil is an emancipated minor or is at least 18 years of age, the pupil, with an opportunity to review the survey and written notice of:
(a) The manner in which the survey will be administered;
(b) The manner in which the results of the survey will be used; and
(c) The persons who will have access to the results of the survey.
5. At any time:
(a) The parent or guardian of a pupil who is an unemancipated minor may refuse to provide consent to the administration of the survey described in subsection 1 by completing and submitting the form described in subsection 3, or any other written refusal of consent, to the principal or other person in charge of the public school in which the pupil is enrolled.
(b) A pupil may refuse to participate in the survey.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Nevada Revised Statutes Title 34. Education § 392.422. Participation of certain public schools in biennial survey for Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System; exception; notice; consent - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/nv/title-34-education/nv-rev-st-392-422/
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