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SALT LAKE CITY (AP)-- A Spanish Fork Lawmaker is trying to pass legislation that will prohibit teachers and child welfare officials from encouraging behavior medication.
Republican Representative Mike Morley is sponsoring a bill that will keep teachers from recommending to a parent that he or she seek behavioral treatment or psychotrophic medication for a student.
It also bars schools from reporting to the state's Division of Child and Family Services.
But the most controversial provision of the bill would prevent D-C-F-S or a juvenile court judge from removing a child solely on grounds a parent rejects behavioral evaluation or treatment of a child.
Morley says he's not opposed to medication, he just believes parents should be the ones to decide whether or not their child should be on medication.
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