BILL NUMBER: SB 223	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 15, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 6, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wyland

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2009

   An act to add Section 33542 to the Education Code, relating to
education.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 223, as amended, Wyland. Education: history-social science
curriculum framework: financial literacy.
   Existing law provides that there is in the state government the
Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to study
problems of courses of study in the schools of the state and, upon
request of the State Board of Education, to recommend the adoption of
minimum standards for courses of study in preschool, kindergarten,
elementary, and secondary schools. Existing law also requires the
commission to recommend curriculum frameworks to the state board.
   This bill would require the commission to consider and vote on
whether to include a unit on financial literacy in the proposed
changes to the  2014   2015  history-social
science curriculum framework as part of its regular process of
developing and revising curriculum frameworks as requested by the
state board.
   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 33542 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   33542.  As part of its regular process of developing and revising
curriculum frameworks as requested by the state board, the commission
shall consider and vote on whether to include  a unit on
 financial literacy in the proposed changes to the 
2014   2015  history-social science curriculum
framework.