Bill Text: TX HB34 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to including in the public high school curriculum instruction in methods of paying for postsecondary education and training.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB34 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB34-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 34 | ||
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| relating to including in the public high school curriculum | ||
| instruction in methods of paying for postsecondary education and | ||
| training. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 28.0021, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (b) and (c) to read | ||
| as follows: | ||
| (a) The Texas essential knowledge and skills and Section | ||
| 28.025 shall require instruction in personal financial literacy, | ||
| including instruction in methods of paying for college and other | ||
| postsecondary education and training, in one or more courses | ||
| required for high school graduation. | ||
| (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 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 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. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 28.0021(c), Education Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies to a student entering grade nine on or after the | ||
| effective date of this Act. | ||
| 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. 34 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 21, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 1, 1 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 34 on May 19, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, 3 | ||
| present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 34 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 16, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
