Bill Text: TX HB34 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 34 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to including in the public high school curriculum instruction in methods of paying for postsecondary education and training.

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)

Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB34 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB34-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 34




	AN ACT
	relating to including in the public high school curriculum
	instruction in methods of paying for postsecondary education and
	training.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 28.0021, Education Code, is amended by
	amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (b) and (c) to read
	as follows:
	(a) The Texas essential knowledge and skills and Section
	28.025 shall require instruction in personal financial literacy,
	including instruction in methods of paying for college and other
	postsecondary education and training, in one or more courses
	required for high school graduation.
	(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 an economics credit under 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. Each district and
	each open-enrollment charter school that offers a high school
	program shall ensure that a district or charter school student
	enrolled at an institution of higher education in a dual credit
	course meeting the requirements for an economics credit under
	Section 28.025 receives the instruction described under this
	subsection.
	(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 required instruction in personal
	financial literacy, instruction in methods of paying for college
	and other postsecondary education and training and use materials
	approved for that purpose under Subsection (b) and shall ensure
	that the instruction described under this subsection is provided to
	a district or charter school student enrolled at an institution of
	higher education in a dual credit course meeting the requirements
	for an economics credit
	. This subsection expires September 1,
	2014.
	SECTION 2. Section 28.0021(c), Education Code, as added by
	this Act, applies to a student entering grade nine on or after the
	effective date of this Act.
	SECTION 3. 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, 2011.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 34 was passed by the House on April
	21, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 1, 1 present, not
	voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
	No. 34 on May 19, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, 3
	present, not voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House

	I certify that H.B. No. 34 was passed by the Senate, with
	amendments, on May 16, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
	0.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: __________________
	Date

	__________________
	Governor