BILL NUMBER: SB 779	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 30, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 3, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 23, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Lieu

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to add Section 51220.7 to the Education Code, relating to
pupil instruction.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 779, as amended, Lieu. 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  history-social  science curriculum
framework is adopted.
   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 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
  history-social  science curriculum framework is
adopted.