BILL NUMBER: AB 1492	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 14, 2005

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Evans

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2005

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1492, as amended, Evans.  Instruction: economics.
   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 allow a school district, in providing instruction
in economics, to include instruction related to the understanding of
personal finances.  The bill would require the State Department
of Education to consider a personal finances curriculum   in
the next cycle in which the history-social science curriculum
framework and its accompanying instructional materials are adopted.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  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, and
credit.  
   (b) The department shall consider developing a personal finances
curriculum in the next cycle in which the history-social science
curriculum framework and its accompanying instructional materials are
adopted.