BILL NUMBER: AB 166	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Roger Hernández

                        JANUARY 23, 2013

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   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 1.  Section 51220.7 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   51220.7.  (a) The instruction provided in economics pursuant to
subdivision (b) of Section 51220 shall include instruction related to
personal finances.
   (b) The department shall develop a personal finances curriculum in
the next cycle in which the mathematics and history-social science
curricula frameworks are adopted.
  SEC. 2.  If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this
act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local
agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant
to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code.