Florida Senate - 2019 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 114
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
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04/03/2019 .
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The Committee on Rules (Hutson) recommended the following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Delete everything after the enacting clause
4 and insert:
5 Section 1. This act may be cited as the “Dorothy L. Hukill
6 Financial Literacy Act.”
7 Section 2. Subsection (5) of section 1002.3105, Florida
8 Statutes, is amended to read:
9 1002.3105 Academically Challenging Curriculum to Enhance
10 Learning (ACCEL) options.—
11 (5) AWARD OF A STANDARD HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA.—A student who
12 meets the applicable grade 9 cohort graduation requirements of
13 s. 1003.4282(3)(a)-(e) or s. 1003.4282(9)(a)1.-5., (b)1.-5.,
14 (c)1.-5., or (d)1.-5., earns two and one-half three credits in
15 electives, and earns a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of
16 2.0 on a 4.0 scale shall be awarded a standard high school
17 diploma in a form prescribed by the State Board of Education.
18 Section 3. Paragraph (d) of subsection (2) of section
19 1003.41, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
20 1003.41 Next Generation Sunshine State Standards.—
21 (2) Next Generation Sunshine State Standards must meet the
22 following requirements:
23 (d) Social Studies standards must establish specific
24 curricular content for, at a minimum, geography, United States
25 and world history, government, civics, humanities, and
26 economics, and including financial literacy. Financial literacy
27 includes the knowledge, understanding, skills, behaviors,
28 attitudes, and values that will enable a student to make
29 responsible and effective financial decisions on a daily basis.
30 Financial literacy instruction shall be an integral part of
31 instruction throughout the entire economics course and include
32 information regarding earning income; buying goods and services;
33 saving and financial investing; taxes; the use of credit and
34 credit cards; budgeting and debt management, including student
35 loans and secured loans; banking and financial services;
36 planning for one’s financial future, including higher education
37 and career planning; credit reports and scores; and fraud and
38 identity theft prevention.
39 Section 4. Paragraphs (d) and (g) of subsection (3) of
40 section 1003.4282, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
41 1003.4282 Requirements for a standard high school diploma.—
42 (3) STANDARD HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA; COURSE AND ASSESSMENT
43 REQUIREMENTS.—
44 (d) Three and one-half credits in social studies.—A student
45 must earn one credit in United States History; one credit in
46 World History; one-half credit in economics; one-half credit in,
47 which must include financial literacy; and one-half credit in
48 United States Government. The United States History EOC
49 assessment constitutes 30 percent of the student’s final course
50 grade. Beginning with students entering grade 9 in the 2019-2020
51 school year, a student must earn one-half credit in financial
52 literacy. Students must earn the one-half credit in financial
53 literacy in grades 11 or 12. The State Board of Education shall
54 identify in rule one or more financial literacy assessments that
55 are aligned to the state’s financial literacy standards for the
56 purposes of credit acceleration under s. 1003.4295(3). A high
57 school student who transfers into the state’s public school
58 system from another country, another state, a private school, or
59 a home education program is not required to meet the financial
60 literacy requirement to earn a standard high school diploma if
61 the student’s transcript documents passage of a course for
62 financial literacy.
63 (g) Seven and one-half Eight credits in electives.—School
64 districts must develop and offer coordinated electives so that a
65 student may develop knowledge and skills in his or her area of
66 interest, such as electives with a STEM or liberal arts focus.
67 Such electives must include opportunities for students to earn
68 college credit, including industry-certified career education
69 programs or series of career-themed courses that result in
70 industry certification or articulate into the award of college
71 credit, or career education courses for which there is a
72 statewide or local articulation agreement and which lead to
73 college credit. A student entering grade 9 before the 2019-2020
74 school year must earn eight credits in electives. A student
75 entering grade 9 in the 2019-2020 school year or thereafter must
76 earn seven and one-half credits in electives.
77 Section 5. Subsection (3) of section 1003.4295, Florida
78 Statutes, is amended to read:
79 1003.4295 Acceleration options.—
80 (3) The Credit Acceleration Program (CAP) is created for
81 the purpose of allowing a student to earn high school credit in
82 courses required for high school graduation through passage of
83 an end-of-course assessment administered under s. 1008.22;, an
84 Advanced Placement Examination;, or a College Level Examination
85 Program (CLEP); or, for a financial literacy course, an
86 appropriate assessment identified in state board rule.
87 Notwithstanding s. 1003.436, a school district shall award
88 course credit to a student who is not enrolled in the course, or
89 who has not completed the course, if the student attains a
90 passing score on the corresponding end-of-course assessment;,
91 Advanced Placement Examination;, or CLEP; or, for a financial
92 literacy course, an appropriate assessment identified in state
93 board rule. The school district shall permit a public school or
94 home education student who is not enrolled in the course, or who
95 has not completed the course, to take the assessment or
96 examination during the regular administration of the assessment
97 or examination.
98 Section 6. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.
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101 And the title is amended as follows:
102 Delete everything before the enacting clause
103 and insert:
104 A bill to be entitled
105 An act relating to high school graduation
106 requirements; providing a short title; amending s.
107 1002.3105, F.S.; revising the requirements for award
108 of a standard high school diploma through Academically
109 Challenging Curriculum to Enhance Learning (ACCEL)
110 options; amending s. 1003.41, F.S.; revising the
111 social studies standards for the Next Generation
112 Sunshine State Standards to include financial literacy
113 as a separate subject; amending s. 1003.4282, F.S.;
114 revising the required credits for a standard high
115 school diploma to include one-half credit in financial
116 literacy and seven and one-half, rather than eight,
117 credits in electives; requiring the state board to
118 identify certain assessments for credit acceleration
119 purposes; exempting certain students from meeting the
120 financial literacy requirement under certain
121 circumstances; amending s. 1003.4295, F.S.; providing
122 that certain assessments identified in State Board of
123 Education rule may be used to satisfy middle school
124 course requirements or earn high school credit for
125 certain courses; providing an effective date.