Bill Text: WV SB297 | 2020 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Requiring Board of Education create family and consumer sciences course
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-01-24 - To House Education [SB297 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2020-SB297-Comm_Sub.html
WEST virginia legislature
2020 regular session
Committee Substitute
for
Senate Bill 297
Senator Cline, original sponsor
[Originating in the Committee on Education; reported on January 17, 2020]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §18-2-7e, relating to requiring the State Board of Education to develop a program of instruction in home economics, or specific subjects within home economics, that may be integrated into the curriculum for students in secondary schools.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 2. STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
§18-2-7e. Program in home economics.
(a) The Legislature finds and declares that:
(1) Persons with an understanding of home economics are better prepared to perform everyday activities such as cooking, sewing, house cleaning, minor home repair, budgeting, and time management;
(2) Possessing these skills would go a long way to help students have more successful lives as independent human beings; and
(3) Providing a home economics course in secondary schools in West Virginia will prepare students to handle their everyday life issues.
(b) To provide students a basic familiarity with those issues, the state board shall develop a program of instruction in home economics, or specific subjects within home economics, that may be integrated into the curriculum for students in secondary schools.
