Bill Text: TX HB2662 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
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-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2662 |
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relating to a personal financial literacy credit for 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, and geography; 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; [ |
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(G) religious literature, including the Hebrew | ||
Scriptures (Old Testament) and New Testament, and its impact on | ||
history and literature; and | ||
(H) personal financial literacy. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 28.0021(a), Education Code, as amended | ||
by Chapters 214 (H.B. 34) and 885 (S.B. 290), Acts of the 82nd | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, is reenacted and amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) The Texas essential knowledge and skills and, as | ||
applicable, Section 28.025 shall include [ |
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personal financial literacy, including instruction in methods of | ||
paying for college and other postsecondary education and training, | ||
in: | ||
(1) mathematics instruction in kindergarten through | ||
grade eight; and | ||
(2) one or more courses offered [ |
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school graduation. | ||
SECTION 3. Sections 28.0021(b) and (c), Education Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) Each school district and each open-enrollment charter | ||
school that offers a high school program shall provide an elective | ||
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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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(c) The State Board of Education shall, not later than | ||
January 31, 2012, identify the essential knowledge and skills of | ||
personal financial literacy instruction to include instruction in | ||
methods of paying for college and other postsecondary education and | ||
training and shall, not later than August 31, 2012, approve under | ||
Subsection (b) materials that provide for such | ||
instruction. Beginning with the 2013-2014 school year, each | ||
school district and each open-enrollment charter school that offers | ||
a high school program shall include, in the elective course | ||
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in methods of paying for college and other postsecondary education | ||
and training and use materials approved for that purpose under | ||
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SECTION 4. 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. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2662 was passed by the House on May 2, | ||
2013, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 1, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2662 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
20, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |