Bill Text: MS HB849 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: High school curriculum; require SBE to develop for instruction in civics and home economics.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Failed) 2022-02-01 - Died In Committee [HB849 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2022-HB849-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2022 Regular Session
To: Education
By: Representatives Karriem, Taylor
House Bill 849
AN ACT TO REQUIRE THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION TO DEVELOP A CIVICS CURRICULUM TO BE TAUGHT IN THE PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS; TO AMEND SECTION 37-13-151, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REQUIRE THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION TO DEVELOP A HIGH SCHOOL HOME ECONOMICS CURRICULUM; TO AMEND SECTION 37-13-153, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REQUIRE SUFFICIENT STATE FUNDING TO BE APPROPRIATED IN THE ADEQUATE EDUCATION PROGRAM AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION APPROPRIATION BILLS TO PROVIDE FOR NO LESS THAN ONE HOME ECONOMICS INSTRUCTOR IN EACH HIGH SCHOOL; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. The State Board of Education shall develop a civics curriculum to be incorporated into the existing curriculum mandated for all public high schools. The civics curriculum must be designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills that are critical to the responsibilities of citizenship in the constitutional democracy of the United States. The board shall require each school district to implement the civics curriculum in the 2023-2024 school year.
SECTION 2. Section 37-13-151, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
37-13-151. * * * The State Board of
Education shall develop a home economics curriculum to be implemented in the
public high schools by all local school districts * * * in the 2023-2024 school year. The home
economics curriculum must include, at a minimum, course work in
responsible parenting and family living skills. The * * * curriculum also
must provide instruction to prepare students to understand children's
physical, mental, emotional and social growth and development as well as to
assume responsibility for their care and guidance, with emphasis on nutrition,
emotional health and physical health. * * *
SECTION 3. Section 37-13-153, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
37-13-153. State funding
for the home economics programs required in Section 37-13-151 shall be * * * provided
in the adequate education program and vocational education appropriation
bills * * * by
line item specifying the amount that is to be expended to employ no less than
one (1) instructor in each high school in each school district in the state.
Any funds so appropriated by line item which are not expended for this purpose
in the vocational education appropriation may be expended for other related
home economics vocational purposes during the fiscal year for which those funds
were appropriated. * * *
SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2022.
