BILL NUMBER: AB 1122	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Duvall

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2007

   An act to add Section 51834 to the Education Code, relating to
pupil instruction.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1122, as introduced, Duvall. Pupil instruction: consumer
credit.
   Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction,
with the approval of the State Board of Education, to plan and
develop a one-semester instructional program entitled consumer
economics for use in schools maintaining any of grades 7 to 12,
inclusive. That instructional program is required to include the uses
and costs of credit.
   This bill would require the State Department of Education to
develop and make available to school districts information regarding
instruction on the consumer credit system, including the history of
credit, the manner of obtaining credit, the proper use of credit,
understanding credit reports, the correction of an erroneous credit
report, and ways of improving a credit report.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 51834 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   51834.  The department shall develop and make available to school
districts information regarding instruction on the consumer credit
system, including its history, the manner of obtaining credit, the
proper use of credit, understanding credit reports, the correction of
an erroneous credit report, and ways of improving a credit report.