Texas 2009 - 81st Regular

Texas House Bill HB1153 Compare Versions

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1	1	81R1551 JRJ-D
2	2	By: Solomons H.B. No. 1153
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to expanding the public high school curriculum to promote
8	8	personal financial literacy.
9	9	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	10	SECTION 1. Section 28.0021, Education Code, is amended to
11	11	read as follows:
12	12	Sec. 28.0021. PERSONAL FINANCIAL LITERACY. (a) The Texas
13	13	essential knowledge and skills and Section 28.025 shall require
14	14	instruction in personal financial literacy offered in the ninth or
15	15	tenth grade in one or more courses required for high school
16	16	graduation.
17	17	(b) School districts and open-enrollment charter schools
18	18	shall incorporate instruction in personal financial literacy into
19	19	any course meeting a requirement for a mathematics or [an]
20	20	economics credit under Section 28.025, using materials approved by
21	21	the board. The materials must include instruction on:
22	22	(1) the types of bank accounts available to consumers
23	23	and the benefits of maintaining a bank account;
24	24	(2) balancing a check book;
25	25	(3) determining credit scores and the manner in which
26	26	credit scores are used;
27	27	(4) issues associated with the use of debit and credit
28	28	cards, including avoiding and eliminating credit card debt;
29	29	(5) understanding the rights and responsibilities of
30	30	renting or buying a home;
31	31	(6) managing money to make the transition from renting
32	32	a home to home ownership;
33	33	(7) starting a small business;
34	34	(8) being a prudent investor in the stock market and
35	35	using other investment options;
36	36	(9) beginning a savings program;
37	37	(10) bankruptcy; and
38	38	(11) the types of loans available to consumers,
39	39	including mortgage loans and motor vehicle loans, and becoming a
40	40	low-risk borrower.
41	41	(c) [School districts and open-enrollment charter schools
42	42	shall comply with Subsection (b) beginning with the 2006-2007
43	43	school year.] The board shall adopt essential knowledge and skills
44	44	for a course including the requirements of Subsection (b) [(a)] not
45	45	later than the 2010-2011 [2008-2009] school year. This subsection
46	46	expires September 1, 2011 [and Subsection (b) expire September 1,
47	47	2009].
48	48	(d) School districts and open-enrollment charter schools
49	49	shall offer an intensive one-week course that incorporates the
50	50	instruction in personal financial literacy required by this
51	51	section. The course must be offered to students who drop out of
52	52	school and who have not otherwise completed a course under this
53	53	section.
54	54	SECTION 2. Section 39.023(c), Education Code, is amended to
55	55	read as follows:
56	56	(c) The agency shall also adopt end-of-course assessment
57	57	instruments for secondary-level courses in Algebra I, Algebra II,
58	58	geometry, a course that includes instruction in personal financial
59	59	literacy, biology, chemistry, physics, English I, English II,
60	60	English III, world geography, world history, and United States
61	61	history. The Algebra I, Algebra II, and geometry end-of-course
62	62	assessment instruments and any end-of-course assessment instrument
63	63	for a course that includes instruction in personal financial
64	64	literacy must be administered with the aid of technology. A school
65	65	district shall comply with State Board of Education rules regarding
66	66	administration of the assessment instruments listed in this
67	67	subsection and shall adopt a policy that requires a student's
68	68	performance on an end-of-course assessment instrument for a course
69	69	listed in this subsection in which the student is enrolled to
70	70	account for 15 percent of the student's final grade for the course.
71	71	If a student retakes an end-of-course assessment instrument for a
72	72	course listed in this subsection, as provided by Section 39.025, a
73	73	school district is not required to use the student's performance on
74	74	the subsequent administration or administrations of the assessment
75	75	instrument to determine the student's final grade for the course.
76	76	If a student is in a special education program under Subchapter A,
77	77	Chapter 29, the student's admission, review, and dismissal
78	78	committee shall determine whether any allowable modification is
79	79	necessary in administering to the student an assessment instrument
80	80	required under this subsection or whether the student should be
81	81	exempted under Section 39.027(a)(2). The State Board of Education
82	82	shall administer the assessment instruments. The State Board of
83	83	Education shall adopt a schedule for the administration of
84	84	end-of-course assessment instruments that complies with the
85	85	requirements of Subsection (c-3).
86	86	SECTION 3. Section 39.025(f), Education Code, is amended to
87	87	read as follows:
88	88	(f) The commissioner shall by rule adopt a transition plan
89	89	to implement the amendments made by S.B. No. 1031, Acts of the 80th
90	90	Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, to this section and Sections
91	91	39.023(a) and (c) and 39.051(b)(5) and by _.B. No. __, Acts of the
92	92	81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, to Section
93	93	39.023(c). The rules must provide for the end-of-course
94	94	assessment instruments adopted under Section 39.023(c) to be
95	95	administered beginning with students entering the ninth grade
96	96	during the 2011-2012 school year. During the period under which
97	97	the transition to end-of-course assessment instruments is made:
98	98	(1) for students entering a grade above the ninth
99	99	grade during the 2011-2012 school year, the commissioner shall
100	100	retain, administer, and use for campus and district ratings under
101	101	Subchapter D the assessment instruments required by Section
102	102	39.023(a) or (c), as that section existed before amendment by S.B.
103	103	No. 1031, Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007; and
104	104	(2) the agency may defer releasing assessment
105	105	instrument questions and answer keys as required by Section
106	106	39.023(e) to the extent necessary to develop additional assessment
107	107	instruments.
108	108	SECTION 4. Section 39.051(d), Education Code, is amended to
109	109	read as follows:
110	110	(d) Annually, the commissioner shall define exemplary,
111	111	recognized, and unacceptable performance for each academic
112	112	excellence indicator included under Subsections (b)(1) through (7)
113	113	and shall project the standards for each of those levels of
114	114	performance for succeeding years. For the indicator under
115	115	Subsection (b)(8), the commissioner shall define exemplary,
116	116	recognized, and unacceptable performance based on student
117	117	performance for the period covering both the current and preceding
118	118	academic years. In defining exemplary, recognized, and
119	119	unacceptable performance for the indicators under Subsections
120	120	(b)(2) and (4), the commissioner may not consider as a dropout or as
121	121	a student who has failed to attend school:
122	122	(1) a student whose failure to attend school results
123	123	from:
124	124	(A) [(1)] the student's expulsion under Section
125	125	37.007; and
126	126	(B) [(2)] as applicable:
127	127	(i) [(A)] adjudication as having engaged in
128	128	delinquent conduct or conduct indicating a need for supervision, as
129	129	defined by Section 51.03, Family Code; or
130	130	(ii) [(B)] conviction of and sentencing for
131	131	an offense under the Penal Code; or
132	132	(2) a student who completes a course offered under
133	133	Section 28.0021(d).
134	134	SECTION 5. The change in law made by Section 28.0021(a),
135	135	Education Code, as amended by this Act, applies beginning with
136	136	students entering the ninth grade during the 2009-2010 school year.
137	137	Students who entered the ninth grade before the 2009-2010 school
138	138	year are governed by the law in effect at the time the students
139	139	entered the ninth grade, and the former law is continued in effect
140	140	for that purpose.
141	141	SECTION 6. This Act applies beginning with the 2009-2010
142	142	school year.
143	143	SECTION 7. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
144	144	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
145	145	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
146	146	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
147	147	Act takes effect September 1, 2009.