Bill Text: WV HB4036 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requiring the State Board of Education to develop curriculum content for a semester-long financial literacy course
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - To House Education [HB4036 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2020-HB4036-Introduced.html
WEST virginia legislature
2020 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 4036
By Delegate Porterfield
[Introduced January 08, 2020; Referred to the Committee on Education]
A BILL to amend and reenact §18-2-7c, of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to requiring the State Board of Education to develop curriculum content for a semester-long financial literacy course; requiring all county boards of education implement the financial literacy course in all high schools in the particular county; and require all students to satisfactorily complete a course in financial literacy as a graduation requirement.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
Article 2. State Board of Education.
§18-2-7c. Program in personal finance.
(a) The Legislature finds and declares that persons with an understanding of personal finance are better prepared to manage their money and that providing a personal finance program in secondary schools in West Virginia will prepare students to handle their finances.
(b) The State Board of Education shall develop
curriculum content for a semester-long course in financial literacy. Each
county board of education shall implement the financial literacy curriculum
content developed by the state board into every high school in that particular
county. To provide students a basic understanding of personal finance,
the state Board shall develop a program of instruction on personal finance
which may be integrated into the curriculum of an appropriate existing course
or courses for students in secondary schools.
(c) In order to graduate from a high school in this state, each student shall satisfactorily complete a course in financial literacy.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require the State Board of Education to develop a financial literacy curriculum for a semester-long course and require students to complete a course in financial literacy as a graduation requirement for high schools in this state.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
