Bill Text: TX HB2662 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to a personal financial literacy credit for high school programs.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 36-16)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB2662 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2662-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to a personal financial literacy credit for high school programs.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 36-16)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB2662 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2662-Introduced.html
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By: Farney | H.B. No. 2662 |
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relating to requiring a personal financial literacy credit for | ||
graduation under the recommended and advanced high school programs. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 28.002(a), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) Each school district that offers kindergarten through | ||
grade 12 shall offer, as a required curriculum: | ||
(1) a foundation curriculum that includes: | ||
(A) English language arts; | ||
(B) mathematics; | ||
(C) science; and | ||
(D) social studies, consisting of Texas, United | ||
States, and world history, government, economics, with emphasis on | ||
the free enterprise system and its benefits, [ |
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personal financial literacy; and | ||
(2) an enrichment curriculum that includes: | ||
(A) to the extent possible, languages other than | ||
English; | ||
(B) health, with emphasis on the importance of | ||
proper nutrition and exercise; | ||
(C) physical education; | ||
(D) fine arts; | ||
(E) career and technology education; | ||
(F) technology applications; and | ||
(G) religious literature, including the Hebrew | ||
Scriptures (Old Testament) and New Testament, and its impact on | ||
history and literature. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 28.0021(b), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(b) Each school district and each open-enrollment charter | ||
school that offers a high school program shall provide to a student | ||
instruction in personal financial literacy in any course meeting | ||
the requirements for a social studies [ |
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Section 28.025, using materials approved by the State Board of | ||
Education. The instruction in personal financial literacy must | ||
include instruction on completing the application for federal | ||
student aid provided by the United States Department of | ||
Education. In fulfilling the requirement to provide financial | ||
literacy instruction under this section, a school district or | ||
open-enrollment charter school may use an existing state, federal, | ||
private, or nonprofit program that provides students without charge | ||
the instruction described under this section. [ |
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SECTION 3. Section 28.025(b-1), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(b-1) The State Board of Education by rule shall require | ||
that: | ||
(1) except as provided by Subsection (b-2), the | ||
curriculum requirements for the recommended and advanced high | ||
school programs under Subsection (a) include a requirement that | ||
students successfully complete: | ||
(A) four credits in each subject of the | ||
foundation curriculum under Section 28.002(a)(1), including at | ||
least one-half credit in government, [ |
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in economics, and at least one-half credit in personal financial | ||
literacy under Section 28.0021, to meet the social studies | ||
requirement; | ||
(B) for the recommended high school program, two | ||
credits in the same language in a language other than English under | ||
Section 28.002(a)(2)(A) and, for the advanced high school program, | ||
three credits in the same language in a language other than English | ||
under Section 28.002(a)(2)(A); and | ||
(C) for the recommended high school program, six | ||
elective credits and, for the advanced high school program, five | ||
elective credits; | ||
(2) one or more credits offered in the required | ||
curriculum for the recommended and advanced high school programs | ||
include a research writing component; and | ||
(3) the curriculum requirements for the minimum, | ||
recommended, and advanced high school programs under Subsection (a) | ||
include a requirement that students successfully complete: | ||
(A) one credit in fine arts under Section | ||
28.002(a)(2)(D); and | ||
(B) except as provided by Subsection (b-11), one | ||
credit in physical education under Section 28.002(a)(2)(C). | ||
SECTION 4. Sections 28.0021(b) and 28.025(b-1), Education | ||
Code, as amended by this Act, apply only to students entering the | ||
ninth grade during the 2013-2014 school year or a later school year. | ||
For students entering a grade above ninth grade during the | ||
2013-2014 school year, Sections 28.0021(b) and 28.025(b-1), | ||
Education Code, as those sections existed before amendment by this | ||
Act, apply, and those sections are continued in effect for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |