BILL · 2023–24 SESSION

SB 5819: Financial education

Making financial education instruction a graduation prerequisite and a required component of public education.

Summary

Requires public school students, beginning with the class of 2029, to earn one-half credit of financial education instruction (FEI)?as a graduation prerequisite.
Requires school districts, charter schools, and state-tribal education compact schools to provide students with access to no less than one-half credit of FEI beginning in or before the 2025-26 school year.
Directs school districts and public schools to submit a plan and timeline to the State Board of Education on meeting requirements.
Requires school districts to provide FEI to all public school students in elementary and middle school grades, with frequency determined by grade level.

From the Senate Bill Report (SB 5819), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to making financial education instruction a graduation prerequisite and a required component of public education;

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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