Bill Text: CA SB779 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Pupil instruction: economics: personal finances.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-08-25 - Set, second hearing. Held in committee and under submission. [SB779 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB779-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 779	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 23, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Lieu

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

    An act to amend Section 70 of the Labor Code, relating to
employment.   An act to add Section 51220.7 to the
Education Code, relating to pupil instruction. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 779, as amended, Lieu.  Employment: Industrial Welfare
Commission   Pupil instruction: economics: personal
finances  . 
   Existing law requires a school district, as part of its adopted
course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to offer courses in
specified areas of study, including, among others, social sciences,
drawing upon the disciplines of anthropology, economics, geography,
history, political science, psychology, and sociology.  
   This bill would authorize a school district, in providing
instruction in economics, to include instruction related to the
understanding of personal finances, including, but not limited to,
budgeting, savings, credit, and identity theft. The bill would
require the State Department of Education to consider a personal
finances curriculum in the next cycle in which the history and social
science curriculum framework and its accompanying instructional
materials are adopted.  
   Existing law establishes the Industrial Welfare Commission within
the Department of Industrial Relationship and specifies that the
commission consists of 5 members appointed by the Governor with the
consent of the Senate.  
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 51220.7 is added to the 
 Education Code   , to read:  
   51220.7.  (a) In providing instruction in economics, pursuant to
subdivision (b) of Section 51220, a school district may include
instruction related to the understanding of personal finances,
including, but not limited to, budgeting, savings, credit, and
identity theft.
   (b) The department shall consider developing a personal finances
curriculum in the next cycle in which the history and social science
curriculum framework and its accompanying instructional materials are
adopted.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 70 of the Labor Code is
amended to read:
   70.  There is in the Department of Industrial Relations the
Industrial Welfare Commission consisting of five members who shall be
appointed by the Governor, with the consent of the Senate.