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INTRODUCED
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HOUSE COMMITTEE
SUBSTITUTE
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SECTION 1. Section 28.002(a),
Education Code, is amended to read as follows:
(a) Each school district that
offers kindergarten through grade 12 shall offer, as a required curriculum:
(1) a foundation curriculum
that includes:
(A) English language arts;
(B) mathematics;
(C) science; and
(D) social studies,
consisting of Texas, United States, and world history, government,
economics, with emphasis on the free enterprise system and its benefits, [and]
geography, and personal financial literacy;
and
(2) an enrichment curriculum
that includes:
(A) to the extent possible,
languages other than English;
(B) health, with emphasis on
the importance of proper nutrition and exercise;
(C) physical education;
(D) fine arts;
(E) career and technology
education;
(F) technology applications;
and
(G) religious literature,
including the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) and New Testament, and its
impact on history and literature.
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SECTION 1. Section 28.002(a),
Education Code, is amended to read as follows:
(a) Each school district that
offers kindergarten through grade 12 shall offer, as a required curriculum:
(1) a foundation curriculum
that includes:
(A) English language arts;
(B) mathematics;
(C) science; and
(D) social studies,
consisting of Texas, United States, and world history, government,
economics, with emphasis on the free enterprise system and its benefits,
and geography; and
(2) an enrichment curriculum
that includes:
(A) to the extent possible,
languages other than English;
(B) health, with emphasis on
the importance of proper nutrition and exercise;
(C) physical education;
(D) fine arts;
(E) career and technology
education;
(F) technology applications;
[and]
(G) religious literature,
including the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) and New Testament, and its
impact on history and literature; and
(H) personal financial literacy.
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No
equivalent provision.
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SECTION 2. Section
28.0021(a), Education Code, as amended by Chapters 214 (H.B. 34) and 885
(S.B. 290), Acts of the 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, is
reenacted and amended to read as follows:
(a) The Texas essential
knowledge and skills and, as applicable, Section 28.025 shall include
[require] instruction in personal financial literacy, including
instruction in methods of paying for college and other postsecondary
education and training, in:
(1) mathematics instruction
in kindergarten through grade eight; and
(2) one or more courses offered
[required] for high school graduation.
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SECTION 2. Section
28.0021(b), Education Code, is amended to read as follows:
(b) Each school district and
each open-enrollment charter school that offers a high school program shall
provide to a student instruction in
personal financial literacy in any course
meeting the requirements for a
social studies [an economics]
credit under Section 28.025, using materials approved by the State Board of
Education. The instruction in personal financial literacy must include
instruction on completing the application for federal student aid provided
by the United States Department of Education. In fulfilling the requirement
to provide financial literacy instruction under this section, a school
district or open-enrollment charter school may use an existing state,
federal, private, or nonprofit program that provides students without
charge the instruction described under this section. [Each district and
each open-enrollment charter school that offers a high school program shall
ensure that a district or charter school student enrolled at an institution
of higher education in a dual credit course meeting the requirements for an
economics credit under Section 28.025 receives the instruction described
under this subsection.]
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SECTION 3. Sections
28.0021(b) and (c), Education Code, are amended to read as follows:
(b) Each school district and
each open-enrollment charter school that offers a high school program shall
provide an elective course [to a student instruction] in
personal financial literacy that meets [in any course meeting] the
requirements for a one-half elective [an economics] credit under Section
28.025, using materials approved by the State Board of Education. The
instruction in personal financial literacy must include instruction on
completing the application for federal student aid provided by the United
States Department of Education. In fulfilling the requirement to provide
financial literacy instruction under this section, a school district or
open-enrollment charter school may use an existing state, federal, private,
or nonprofit program that provides students without charge the instruction
described under this section. [Each district and each open-enrollment
charter school that offers a high school program shall ensure that a
district or charter school student enrolled at an institution of higher
education in a dual credit course meeting the requirements for an economics
credit under Section 28.025 receives the instruction described under this
subsection.]
(c)
The State Board of Education shall, not later than January 31, 2012,
identify the essential knowledge and skills of personal financial literacy
instruction to include instruction in methods of paying for college and
other postsecondary education and training and shall, not later than August
31, 2012, approve under Subsection (b) materials that provide for such
instruction. Beginning with the 2013-2014 school year, each school district
and each open-enrollment charter school that offers a high school program
shall include, in the elective course [required instruction]
in personal financial literacy, instruction in methods of paying for
college and other postsecondary education and training and use materials
approved for that purpose under Subsection (b) [and shall ensure that
the instruction described under this subsection is provided to a district
or charter school student enrolled at an institution of higher education in
a dual credit course meeting the requirements for an economics credit].
This subsection expires September 1, 2014.
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SECTION 3. Section
28.025(b-1), Education Code, is amended to read as follows:
(b-1) The State Board of
Education by rule shall require that:
(1) except as provided by
Subsection (b-2), the curriculum requirements for the recommended and
advanced high school programs under Subsection (a) include a requirement
that students successfully complete:
(A) four credits in each
subject of the foundation curriculum under Section 28.002(a)(1), including
at least one-half credit in government, [and] at least
one-half credit in economics, and at least one-half credit in personal
financial literacy under Section 28.0021, to meet the social studies
requirement;
(B) for the recommended high
school program, two credits in the same language in a language other than
English under Section 28.002(a)(2)(A) and, for the advanced high school
program, three credits in the same language in a language other than
English under Section 28.002(a)(2)(A); and
(C) for the recommended high
school program, six elective credits and, for the advanced high school
program, five elective credits;
(2) one or more credits
offered in the required curriculum for the recommended and advanced high
school programs include a research writing component; and
(3) the curriculum
requirements for the minimum, recommended, and advanced high school
programs under Subsection (a) include a requirement that students
successfully complete:
(A) one credit in fine arts
under Section 28.002(a)(2)(D); and
(B) except as provided by
Subsection (b-11), one credit in physical education under Section
28.002(a)(2)(C).
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No
equivalent provision.
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SECTION 4. Sections
28.0021(b) and 28.025(b-1), Education Code, as amended by this Act, apply
only to students entering the ninth grade during the 2013-2014 school year
or a later school year. For students entering a grade above ninth grade
during the 2013-2014 school year, Sections 28.0021(b) and 28.025(b-1),
Education Code, as those sections existed before amendment by this Act,
apply, and those sections are continued in effect for that purpose.
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No
equivalent provision.
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SECTION 5. 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, 2013.
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SECTION 4. Same as introduced
version.
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