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1	1	By: Farney, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Patrick) H.B. No. 2662
2	2	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2013;
3	3	May 7, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on
4	4	Education; May 14, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote:
5	5	Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 14, 2013, sent to printer.)
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8	8	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
9	9	AN ACT
10	10	relating to a personal financial literacy credit for high school
11	11	programs.
12	12	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
13	13	SECTION 1. Section 28.002(a), Education Code, is amended to
14	14	read as follows:
15	15	(a) Each school district that offers kindergarten through
16	16	grade 12 shall offer, as a required curriculum:
17	17	(1) a foundation curriculum that includes:
18	18	(A) English language arts;
19	19	(B) mathematics;
20	20	(C) science; and
21	21	(D) social studies, consisting of Texas, United
22	22	States, and world history, government, economics, with emphasis on
23	23	the free enterprise system and its benefits, and geography; and
24	24	(2) an enrichment curriculum that includes:
25	25	(A) to the extent possible, languages other than
26	26	English;
27	27	(B) health, with emphasis on the importance of
28	28	proper nutrition and exercise;
29	29	(C) physical education;
30	30	(D) fine arts;
31	31	(E) career and technology education;
32	32	(F) technology applications; [and]
33	33	(G) religious literature, including the Hebrew
34	34	Scriptures (Old Testament) and New Testament, and its impact on
35	35	history and literature; and
36	36	(H) personal financial literacy.
37	37	SECTION 2. Section 28.0021(a), Education Code, as amended
38	38	by Chapters 214 (H.B. 34) and 885 (S.B. 290), Acts of the 82nd
39	39	Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, is reenacted and amended to
40	40	read as follows:
41	41	(a) The Texas essential knowledge and skills and, as
42	42	applicable, Section 28.025 shall include [require] instruction in
43	43	personal financial literacy, including instruction in methods of
44	44	paying for college and other postsecondary education and training,
45	45	in:
46	46	(1) mathematics instruction in kindergarten through
47	47	grade eight; and
48	48	(2) one or more courses offered [required] for high
49	49	school graduation.
50	50	SECTION 3. Sections 28.0021(b) and (c), Education Code, are
51	51	amended to read as follows:
52	52	(b) Each school district and each open-enrollment charter
53	53	school that offers a high school program shall provide an elective
54	54	course [to a student instruction] in personal financial literacy
55	55	that meets [in any course meeting] the requirements for a one-half
56	56	elective [an economics] credit under Section 28.025, using
57	57	materials approved by the State Board of Education. The
58	58	instruction in personal financial literacy must include
59	59	instruction on completing the application for federal student aid
60	60	provided by the United States Department of Education. In
61	61	fulfilling the requirement to provide financial literacy
62	62	instruction under this section, a school district or
63	63	open-enrollment charter school may use an existing state, federal,
64	64	private, or nonprofit program that provides students without charge
65	65	the instruction described under this section. [Each district and
66	66	each open-enrollment charter school that offers a high school
67	67	program shall ensure that a district or charter school student
68	68	enrolled at an institution of higher education in a dual credit
69	69	course meeting the requirements for an economics credit under
70	70	Section 28.025 receives the instruction described under this
71	71	subsection.]
72	72	(c) The State Board of Education shall, not later than
73	73	January 31, 2012, identify the essential knowledge and skills of
74	74	personal financial literacy instruction to include instruction in
75	75	methods of paying for college and other postsecondary education and
76	76	training and shall, not later than August 31, 2012, approve under
77	77	Subsection (b) materials that provide for such
78	78	instruction. Beginning with the 2013-2014 school year, each
79	79	school district and each open-enrollment charter school that offers
80	80	a high school program shall include, in the elective course
81	81	[required instruction] in personal financial literacy, instruction
82	82	in methods of paying for college and other postsecondary education
83	83	and training and use materials approved for that purpose under
84	84	Subsection (b) [and shall ensure that the instruction described
85	85	under this subsection is provided to a district or charter school
86	86	student enrolled at an institution of higher education in a dual
87	87	credit course meeting the requirements for an economics
88	88	credit]. This subsection expires September 1, 2014.
89	89	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
90	90	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
91	91	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
92	92	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
93	93	Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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