Bill Text: TX HB3575 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to personal financial literacy and career skills courses for high school students in public schools.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-22 - Referred to Public Education [HB3575 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3575-Introduced.html
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By: Guerra | H.B. No. 3575 |
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relating to personal financial literacy and career skills courses | ||
for high school students in public schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 8.051(d), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(d) Each regional education service center shall maintain | ||
core services for purchase by school districts and campuses. The | ||
core services are: | ||
(1) training and assistance in: | ||
(A) teaching each subject area assessed under | ||
Section 39.023; and | ||
(B) providing instruction in personal financial | ||
literacy and career skills as required under Section 28.0021; | ||
(2) training and assistance in providing a gifted and | ||
talented program and each program that qualifies for a funding | ||
allotment under Section 48.102, 48.104, or 48.105; | ||
(3) assistance specifically designed for a school | ||
district or campus assigned an unacceptable performance rating | ||
under Section 39.054; | ||
(4) training and assistance to teachers, | ||
administrators, members of district boards of trustees, and members | ||
of site-based decision-making committees; | ||
(5) assistance specifically designed for a school | ||
district that is considered out of compliance with state or federal | ||
special education requirements, based on the agency's most recent | ||
compliance review of the district's special education programs; and | ||
(6) assistance in complying with state laws and rules. | ||
SECTION 2. The heading to Section 28.0021, Education Code, | ||
is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 28.0021. PERSONAL FINANCIAL LITERACY AND CAREER | ||
SKILLS. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 28.0021, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(b) Each school district and each open-enrollment charter | ||
school that offers a high school program shall provide a [ |
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that meets the requirements for [ |
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Section 28.025, using materials approved by the State Board of | ||
Education. The course may be offered as a distinct course in | ||
personal financial literacy and career skills or as an elective | ||
course or existing course that includes instruction in personal | ||
financial literacy and career skills sufficient to meet the | ||
requirements for one-half credit under Section 28.025(b-1)(9). The | ||
instruction in personal financial literacy and career skills must | ||
include instruction on: | ||
(1) completing the application for federal student aid | ||
provided by the United States Department of Education; | ||
(2) the financial consequences of failing to make | ||
timely student loan payments; | ||
(3) the effect of student loan debt on a person's | ||
finances; | ||
(4) the circumstances in which student loans are | ||
dischargeable in bankruptcy; | ||
(5) completing and filing an income tax return; | ||
(6) managing a credit score; | ||
(7) managing and paying down a mortgage; | ||
(8) creating a resume; and | ||
(9) preparing for a job interview. | ||
(c) In fulfilling the requirement to provide financial | ||
literacy and career skills 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. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 28.0024(a), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may | ||
establish a school-based savings program to facilitate increased | ||
awareness of the importance of saving for higher education and | ||
facilitate personal financial literacy and career skills | ||
instruction. A district or school may offer the program in | ||
conjunction with a personal financial literacy and career skills | ||
course under Section 28.0021. | ||
SECTION 5. 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 the curriculum requirements for the foundation high school | ||
program under Subsection (a) include a requirement that students | ||
successfully complete: | ||
(1) four credits in English language arts under | ||
Section 28.002(a)(1)(A), including one credit in English I, one | ||
credit in English II, one credit in English III, and one credit in | ||
an advanced English course authorized under Subsection (b-2); | ||
(2) three credits in mathematics under Section | ||
28.002(a)(1)(B), including one credit in Algebra I, one credit in | ||
geometry, and one credit in any advanced mathematics course | ||
authorized under Subsection (b-2); | ||
(3) three credits in science under Section | ||
28.002(a)(1)(C), including one credit in biology, one credit in any | ||
advanced science course authorized under Subsection (b-2), and one | ||
credit in integrated physics and chemistry or in an additional | ||
advanced science course authorized under Subsection (b-2); | ||
(4) three credits in social studies under Section | ||
28.002(a)(1)(D), including one credit in United States history, at | ||
least one-half credit in government and at least one-half credit in | ||
economics, and one credit in world geography or world history; | ||
(5) except as provided under Subsections (b-12), | ||
(b-13), and (b-14), two credits in the same language in a language | ||
other than English under Section 28.002(a)(2)(A); | ||
(6) four and one-half [ |
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(7) one credit in fine arts under Section | ||
28.002(a)(2)(D); [ |
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(8) except as provided by Subsection (b-11), one | ||
credit in physical education under Section 28.002(a)(2)(C); and | ||
(9) at least one-half credit in personal financial | ||
literacy and career skills under Section 28.0021. | ||
SECTION 6. Section 29.917(a), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) From funds appropriated for the purpose, the | ||
commissioner may award grants to organizations that provide | ||
volunteers to teach classroom or after-school programs to enhance: | ||
(1) college readiness; | ||
(2) workforce readiness; | ||
(3) dropout prevention; or | ||
(4) personal financial literacy and career skills. | ||
SECTION 7. Section 28.025(b-1), Education Code, as amended | ||
by this Act, applies only to students entering the ninth grade | ||
during the 2021-2022 school year or a later school year. For | ||
students entering a grade above ninth grade during the 2021-2022 | ||
school year, Section 28.025(b-1), Education Code, as that section | ||
existed before amendment by this Act, applies, and that section is | ||
continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 8. 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, 2021. |