H.B. No. 399
AN ACT
relating to requiring general academic teaching institutions to
offer personal financial literacy training.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 51.305 to read as follows:
Sec. 51.305. PERSONAL FINANCIAL LITERACY TRAINING. (a) In
this section:
(1) "Coordinating board" means the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board.
(2) "General academic teaching institution" has the
meaning assigned by Section 61.003.
(b) The coordinating board by rule shall:
(1) require a general academic teaching institution to
offer training in personal financial literacy to provide students
of the institution with the knowledge and skills necessary as
self-supporting adults to make important decisions relating to
personal financial matters; and
(2) determine the topics to be covered by the
training, which may include budgeting, credit cards, spending,
saving, loan repayment and consolidation, taxes, retirement
planning, and financing of health care and other benefits.
(c) The coordinating board by rule may provide for the
training required under this section to be offered in an online
course.
(d) The coordinating board shall require general academic
teaching institutions to offer the training required by this
section as soon as the coordinating board considers practical, but
not later than the 2013 fall semester. This subsection expires
January 1, 2014.
SECTION 2. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
shall adopt rules for the administration of Section 51.305,
Education Code, as added by this Act, as soon as practicable after
this Act takes effect. For that purpose, the coordinating board may
adopt the rules in the manner provided by law for emergency rules.
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. 399 was passed by the House on April
7, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 3, 1 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 399 was passed by the Senate on May
19, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor