SESSION OF 2022
SUPPLEMENTAL NOTE ON SUBSTITUTE FOR HOUSE
BILL NO. 2662
As Amended by House Committee on K-12
Education Budget

Brief*
Sub. for HB 2662 would establish the Parents’ Bill of
Rights and Academic Transparency Act. The bill would
provide that every parent in the state would have the right to
direct the upbringing, education, care, and mental health of
the parent’s child.
The bill would also revise the requirements for the
administration of surveys, including tests, questionnaires,
examinations, and suicide risk assessment and screening
tools, in schools.

Parents’ Bill of Rights (New Sections 1-3)
The bill would establish three new sections of law to
codify the Parents’ Bill of Rights and require school districts to
establish academic transparency portals. The bill would also
amend the statute relating to teacher evaluation policies of
school districts.
Parental Rights (New Section 1)
Section 1 would establish the Parents’ Bill of Rights. The
bill would provide a legislative statement of intent that a
parent shall retain the primary role in a child’s education, to
obtain critical information about what is being taught or
provided in the classroom and to take action when a parent
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*Supplemental notes are prepared by the Legislative Research
Department and do not express legislative intent. The supplemental
note and fiscal note for this bill may be accessed on the Internet at
http://www.kslegislature.org
feels that the quality or content of a child’s education does not
align with the values and expectations the parent expects and
deserves. The bill would provide that a parent shall have a
fundamental right to direct the upbringing, education, care,
and mental health of the parent’s child and would establish
parental rights. The bill would give parents the the rights to:
● Direct the education and care of the parent’s child;
● Direct the upbringing and the moral or religious
training of such child;
● Request, access, and inspect all written and
electronic records maintained by a school relating
to such child;
● Be informed of and inspect the curriculum,
instructional materials, and any other materials that
are made available or taught to such child in the
child’s school;
● Attend publicly designated meetings of the local
school board and question and address school
officials during designated public comment periods
or through letters, electronic communications, or in-
person meetings;
● Make healthcare and medical decisions for such
child, including the right to make decisions
regarding vaccinations and immunizations;
● Expect that such child, and each teacher and
educator of such child, shall not be compelled to
affirm, believe, profess, or adhere to any idea that
violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964;
● Expect that no course of instruction or unit of study
shall direct or otherwise compel the child to
personally affirm, adopt, or adhere to any idea that
violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964;

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 ● Expect that the child’s school shall not contract for
teacher professional development with providers
that promote racially essentialist doctrines or
practices that have been held to violate the Civil
Rights Act of 1964;
● Expect that each teacher and educator of such
child will endeavor to present facts without
distortion, bias, or personal prejudice;
● Expect that each teacher and educator of such
child shall work to eliminate coercion that forces
teachers and educators to support actions and
ideologies that violate individual professional
integrity; and
● Assert any other inalienable or constitutional right
that is reserved to the parent and the child
pursuant to state or federal law.
The bill would require the board of education of each
school district, on or before January 1, 2023, to develop
policies in consultation with parents, teachers, and school
administrators that would guarantee a parent’s right to be
involved in the child’s education. Such policies would be
required to include procedures for a parent to:
● Be informed through the parent transparency portal
or other means of notification and have the ability
to inspect any materials and activities that are
anticipated to be used for instruction;
● Inspect and review any educational or health
records that pertain to the child;
● Have an opportunity to object to any learning
material or activity on the basis that such material
harms the child or impairs the parent’s firmly held
beliefs, values, or principles and withdraw such
child from the activity, class, or program;

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 ● Have an opportunity to request that the school
designate any book, magazine, or any other
material that is made available to students in the
school library as an item for which parental review
is recommended as provided in Section 2 of the bill
and amendments thereto. The bill would require
such policies and procedures to require the
consideration of each such challenge and, if a
challenge is upheld, such book, magazine, or other
material must be so designated in accordance with
the provisions of Section 2, and amendments
thereto; and
● Have an opportunity to challenge the material or
educational benefit of any book, magazine, or any
other material that is made available to students in
the school library. Such policies and procedures
would require the consideration of each such
challenge and, if a challenge is upheld, such book,
magazine, or other material must be removed from
the school.
Parent Transparency Portals (New Section 2)
The bill would require the board of education of each
school district, on or before July 1, 2023, to establish an
internet-based parent transparency portal on the school
district’s website with a prominent link to the portal on the
website homepage of the school district and each school that
maintains its own website. The bill would require each school
district’s parent transparency portal to provide the following
information:
● The Parent’s Bill of Rights;
● A list organized by school, grade level, and area of
instruction that includes the academic learning
materials, activities, and curriculum that are used
at each school. The list would be required to
include the title, author, organization, website
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 address, and any other information necessary to
identify such items;
● A link to the curriculum standards established by
the State Board of Education, associated with each
applicable grade level and subject matter;
● A list organized by school, grade level, and area of
instruction that includes the social and emotional
learning materials, activities, and curriculum used
for student instruction at any school of the school
district. The bill would require such list to include
the title, author, organization, website address, and
any other information that is necessary for the
identification of such materials, activities, and
curriculum;
● A list organized by school, grade level, and area of
instruction that includes the following information
for each nonacademic test, questionnaire, survey,
and examination referred to in KSA 72-6316
(regarding personal beliefs or practices), and
amendments thereto, that is administered in any
school of the school district:
○ A copy of each test, questionnaire, survey, or
examination;
○ The name of the company or entity that
produces or provides the test, questionnaire,
survey, or examination;
○ An explanation of the purposes of the data
collection, how the collected data is intended
to be used, and whether the data will remain
private or be reported as aggregate data;
○ An explanation of how such test,
questionnaire, survey, or examination benefits
student learning and academic achievement;
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 ○ An explanation of whether the school district
will receive or maintain the resulting data and
an explanation of how the school intends to
use and maintain such data;
● A list organized by school, grade level, and area of
instruction, if applicable, that includes the
professional development courses, training
materials, and related activities that were provided
or offered to any licensed teacher or administrator
of the school district. Such list must include the
title, author, organization, website address, and
any other information that is necessary for the
identification of the courses, materials and
activities;
● A link to the catalog or a list of the inventory of
school library resources. The bill would require
such link or catalog to clearly provide whether any
book, magazine, or other material is designated for
recommended parental review, or has been placed
on the books under review list in accordance with
the bill; indicate whether such designation is due to
sexual content, excessive profanity, or excessive
violence; and provide a sample of the material that
necessitates such designation;
● Information on how a person may request and be
given the opportunity to review and inspect any
information that the bill would require to be listed or
referenced on the school district’s parent
transparency portal; and
● The school district’s policies adopted pursuant to
the bill that provide for parental involvement in a
child’s education.
The bill would require any book, magazine, or material
that is made available to students in the school library to be
designated as an item for which parental review is
recommended if the item is requested to be designated as
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such pursuant to the policies required in the bill and such item
meets the standard for designation pursuant to the following
definition:
“Parental review is recommended” would mean any
book, magazine, newspaper, pamphlet, poster, print, picture,
figure, image, description, motion picture, film, record, video,
or any other written communication that:
● The average person applying contemporary
community standards would find, taking the
material as a whole and with respect to minors, is
designed to appeal or pander to the prurient
interest;
● Depicts, describes, or represents, in a manner
patently offensive with respect to what is suitable to
minors, an actual or simulated sexual act or sexual
contact or a lewd exhibition of the genitals or post-
pubescent female breast; and
● When taken as a whole, lacks serious literary,
scientific, artistic, or political value for a minor;
● Contains excessive profanity; or
● Contains excessive violence.
A school district would be required to review all such
library materials that are purchased on and after July 1, 2023,
and establish a process to designate such materials as may
be necessary. A parent would be authorized, pursuant to
policies the bill would require school districts to adopt, to
request that material be designated as material for which
parental review is recommended, and the bill would require
the school district to designate the item unless it
unequivocally does not meet such criteria.
Each school district would also be required to post any
learning materials, activities, curriculum, and any other

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information required to be listed or provided pursuant to the
bill prior to the first day of school if such school district knows
that such materials, activities, curriculum, or information
(materials) will be used during the upcoming school year.
For any learning materials that are not listed or provided
on the parent transparency portal at the beginning of the
school year, each school district must cause any such
materials to be listed or provided on an ongoing weekly or
monthly basis during the school year as such materials are
presented or provided to students. For the purpose of making
ongoing weekly and monthly updates, a school district would
be permitted to use collaborative online document or
spreadsheet software that allows multiple users to update or
make additions to content on an ongoing basis as long as the
contents of such online document or spreadsheet are made
available on the parent transparency portal.
The bill would require all such information required to be
listed or provided on the parent transparency portal in a
school year to be finalized and completed by June 30 of such
school year. Once posted, the bill would require all such
information to be maintained on the website for at least two
years.
The bill would authorize the Kansas State Department of
Education to provide guidance and assistance to school
districts regarding the establishment and maintenance of the
transparency portals. The bill would also authorize the
Attorney General or the city, county, or district attorney or a
resident of the school district in which the school is located to
bring a suit for injunctive relief or a writ of mandamus to
compel a school district to comply with the requirements of
the parent transparency portal. If a resident of a school
district prevails in such an action, the bill would direct the
court to award such resident reasonable attorney fees not
exceeding $15,000.


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Definitions (New Section 3)
The bill would define terms used in the bill.

Teacher Evaluations (Section 4)
The bill would amend KSA 72-2410 relating to teacher
evaluation policies at school districts. Currently, the statute
provides certain criteria for the development and
requirements of such evaluation policies. The bill would
provide that no teacher who is subject to such evaluation
shall be negatively evaluated or have such person’s contract
non-renewed on the basis of such teacher’s refusal to teach
through critical pedagogy philosophies or against such
person’s sincerely held religious beliefs.

Surveys (Section 5)
The bill would would provide additional requirements for
the administration of surveys, including tests, questionnaires,
and examinations in schools. The bill would apply such
requirements to any survey that contains questions about the
personal and private attitudes, values, beliefs, or practices of
the student or any of the student’s family, friends, or peers.
Prior to the administration of any such survey, the bill would
require the school to provide prior written notification to the
parent or guardian no more than four months in advance of
the administration of the survey. The bill would require the
written parental notification to include the following
information:
● A copy of the survey;
● Information on how the parent can provide written
consent for the student to participate;
● The name of the company or entity that produces
or provides the survey;

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 ● An explanation of the purpose of the data that is
collected, how the data is used, and whether the
data will remain private or be reported as
aggregate data;
● An explanation of how such survey benefits
student learning and academic achievement; and
● Whether the school will receive or maintain the
resulting data and how the school will use such
data.
The bill would provide that a parent’s written consent
could only be accepted by a school after the parent receives
the required notification and has had an opportunity to review
the information in such notification. A separate notification
would be required for each survey, and the parent’s written
consent would be required upon each notification for a
student to participate. Even if a parent provides written
consent, the bill would authorize a student to refuse to take
such survey and not suffer any adverse consequences for the
decision. Prior to administration of any survey, the bill would
require students be informed of such right to refuse.
The bill would require each school to post and maintain
copies of each survey that is administered in the school
district. The bill would require copies to be posted on the
school district website and updated as necessary. The bill
would also provide that no such survey shall be incorporated
or embedded in any academic program, course, or curriculum
offered or provided by a school district.
Additionally, the bill would prohibit the collection of any
perso