AB 166, as introduced, Roger Hernández. 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 require the instruction provided in economics to include instruction related to personal finances, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the State Department of Education to develop a personal finances curriculum in the next cycle in which the mathematics and history-social science curricula frameworks are adopted.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: yes.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 51220.7 is added to the Education Code,
2to read:
(a) The instruction provided in economics pursuant
4to subdivision (b) of Section 51220 shall include instruction related
5to personal finances.
6(b) The department shall develop a personal finances curriculum
7in the next cycle in which the mathematics and history-social
8science curricula frameworks are adopted.
If the Commission on State Mandates determines that
10this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to
11local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made
12pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division
134 of Title 2 of the Government Code.
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