House File 368 - Introduced

HOUSE FILE  	 BY	PETTENGILL

Passed House, Date			Passed Senate,	Date  	  Vote:	Ayes	Nays			Vote:	Ayes		Nays  	
Approved  	

A BILL FOR

An Act adding personal finance skills and financial literacy
requirements to the educational standards for school districts
and accredited nonpublic schools.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
TLSB 2020YH 83
kh/nh/8

PAG LIN

1	1	Section 1.	Section 256.11, subsections 2, 3, and 4, Code
1	2 2009, are amended to read as follows:
1	3	2.	The kindergarten program shall include experiences
1	4 designed to develop healthy emotional and social habits and
1	5 growth in the language arts and communication skills, as well
1	6 as a capacity for the completion of individual tasks, and
1	7 protect and increase physical well=being with attention given
1	8 to experiences relating to the development of life skills,
  1  9 including but not limited to personal finance skills, and
1 10 human growth and development.	A kindergarten teacher shall be
1 11 licensed to teach in kindergarten.	An accredited nonpublic
1 12 school must meet the requirements of this subsection only if
1 13 the nonpublic school offers a kindergarten program.
1 14	3.	The following areas shall be taught in grades one
1 15 through six:	English=language arts, social studies, financial
  1 16 literacy, mathematics, science, health, age=appropriate and
1 17 research=based human growth and development, physical
1 18 education, traffic safety, music, and visual art.	The health
1 19 curriculum shall include the characteristics of communicable
1 20 diseases including acquired immune deficiency syndrome.	The
1 21 state board as part of accreditation standards shall adopt
1 22 curriculum definitions for implementing the elementary
1 23 program.
1 24	4.	The following shall be taught in grades seven and
1 25 eight:	English=language arts; social studies; financial
  1 26 literacy; mathematics; science; health; age=appropriate and
1 27 research=based human growth and development; family, consumer,
1 28 career, and technology education; physical education; music;
1 29 and visual art.	The health curriculum shall include
1 30 age=appropriate and research=based information regarding the
1 31 characteristics of sexually transmitted diseases, including
1 32 HPV and the availability of a vaccine to prevent HPV, and
1 33 acquired immune deficiency syndrome.	The state board as part
1 34 of accreditation standards shall adopt curriculum definitions
35 for implementing the program in grades seven and eight.
1 However, this subsection shall not apply to the teaching of
2	2 family, consumer, career, and technology education in
2	3 nonpublic schools.	For purposes of this section,
2	4 "age=appropriate", "HPV", and "research=based" mean the same
2	5 as defined in section 279.50.
2	6	Sec. 2.	Section 256.11, subsection 5, Code 2009, is
2	7 amended by adding the following new paragraph:
2	8	NEW PARAGRAPH.	k.	One=half unit of financial literacy.
2	9	Sec. 3.	STATE MANDATE FUNDING SPECIFIED.	In accordance
2 10 with section 25B.2, subsection 3, the state cost of requiring
2 11 compliance with any state mandate included in this Act shall
2 12 be paid by a school district from state school foundation aid
2 13 received by the school district under section 257.16.	This
2 14 specification of the payment of the state cost shall be deemed
2 15 to meet all of the state funding=related requirements of
2 16 section 25B.2, subsection 3, and no additional state funding
2 17 shall be necessary for the full implementation of this Act by
2 18 and enforcement of this Act against all affected school
2 19 districts.

2 20	EXPLANATION
2 21	This bill requires school districts and accredited
2 22 nonpublic schools to offer personal finance skills and
2 23 literacy in their kindergarten through grade 12 education
2 24 programs.	The kindergarten program must include personal
2 25 finance skills; the grade 1=8 programs must include financial
2 26 literacy; and the grade 9=12 program must provide one=half
2 27 unit of financial literacy.
2 28	The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code
2 29 section 25B.3.	The bill requires that the state cost of any
2 30 state mandate included in the bill be paid by a school
2 31 district from state school foundation aid received by the
2 32 school district under Code section 257.16.	The specification
2 33 is deemed to constitute state compliance with any state
2 34 mandate funding=related requirements of Code section 25B.2.
35 The inclusion of this specification is intended to reinstate
1 the requirement of political subdivisions to comply with any
3	2 state mandates included in the bill. 3	3 LSB 2020YH 83
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