Bill Text: NY A02928 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires all public and private schools to provide financial literacy education to pupils in grade eleven; directs that certain topics be covered in such educational program.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 10-1)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-28 - print number 2928a [A02928 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A02928-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2928--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 1, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JENSEN, NORRIS, DeSTEFANO, E. BROWN, BENDETT, BLUMENCRANZ, TAGUE, GALLAHAN, MANKTELOW, ANGELINO, BROOK-KRASNY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring all public and private schools to provide financial literacy education to certain pupils The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 818 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 818. Instruction relating to financial literacy. 1. The department 4 and board of regents shall require that all public and private schools 5 in the state incorporate a course or full unit of instruction in finan- 6 cial education delivered by means of a comprehensive financial literacy 7 program for all pupils in grade eleven who intend to graduate with a 8 regents, local, or advanced designation regents diploma. 9 2. The requirements of this section may be fulfilled through (a) 10 incorporating financial literacy coursework into an existing course, 11 provided that such coursework shall be apportioned appropriate and 12 substantial time to ensure that the enumerated topics are adequately 13 covered; or (b) establishing a new course solely dedicated to financial 14 literacy. 15 3. The board of education or trustees of each school is charged with 16 developing and maintaining a financial literacy program for pupils in 17 grade eleven that shall include, but not be limited to, instruction in 18 the following topics: 19 (a) Taxes; 20 (b) Student loans; EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02606-02-4A. 2928--A 2 1 (c) Car loans and leases; 2 (d) Mortgages and rent; 3 (e) Debt; 4 (f) Interest rates; 5 (g) Credit cards; 6 (h) Building credit; 7 (i) Bank accounts and debit cards; 8 (j) Specialized bank accounts, IRAs, 504 Plans and CDs; 9 (k) Online banking; 10 (l) Budgeting; 11 (m) Stocks, bonds and investing; 12 (n) Long term saving and retirement accounts; 13 (o) Foreclosure, bankruptcy, and eviction; and 14 (p) Insurance. 15 4. Each school shall retain the ability to determine the appropriate 16 order, method, and structure of the curriculum beyond the required 17 topics. 18 5. The commissioner shall provide all public and private schools with 19 pupils in grade eleven with sample instructional materials and resources 20 that may be used to support the implementation of the financial literacy 21 instruction requirement. 22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 23 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 24 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 25 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 26 completed on or before such effective date.
