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From the ECS State Policy Database
2009 State Policies / Activities

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The following summary includes policies enacted in 2009. This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format. To view the documents, click on the blue triangle next to the topic of interest. To view all, press the button located at the top labeled "Expand All."

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- Curriculum
WISigned into law 12/2009P-12Requires social studies instruction in public schools to include the history of organized labor in America and the collective bargaining process. Act No. 99
http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/acts/09Act99.pdf
Title: A.B. 172
Source: http://www.legis.state.wi.us

ILSigned into law 08/2009P-12Requires the state board of education, subject to appropriation, to provide grants to institutions of higher education that offer state-approved agricultural science teacher preparations programs and public community colleges that provide an articulated agricultural science teacher education course of study. Makes changes concerning the activities for which such funds may be used. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/HB/PDF/09600HB3600lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 3600
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

ILSigned into law 08/2009P-12
Postsec.
Requires the state board of education to promote an annual campaign about disability history and awareness in the state. Requires a school district to provide instruction on disability history, people with disabilities and the disability rights movement. Requires the regional superintendent of schools to monitor a school district's compliance with this curricular requirement during his/her annual compliance visit. Permits public postsecondary institutions to conduct and promote activities that provide education on, awareness of and an understanding of disability history, people with disabilities and the disability rights movement. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/HB/PDF/09600HB1035lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 1035
Source: www.ilga.gov

NCSigned into law 08/2009P-12Requires credit education for all students; provides that each student receive personal financial literacy instruction that includes the true cost of credit, choosing and managing a credit card, borrowing money for an automobile or other large purchase, home mortgages, credit scoring and credit reports, and other relevant financial literacy issues; requires the State Board of Education to determine into which courses and grade levels the curriculum shall be integrated. http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1474v5.pdf
Title: H.B. 1474
Source: http://www.ncleg.net

HIVeto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 07/2009P-12Requires sexuality health education programs funded by the state to provide medically accurate and factual information that includes education on abstinence, contraception and methods of disease prevention.
Bill text: http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2009/Bills/SB777_HD1_.HTM
Governor's veto message: http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2009/bills/GM827_.PDF
Title: S.B. 777
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

LASigned into law 06/2009P-12Requires public schools to provide a specified amount of physical activity each school day for students in specified grades; provides for the establishment of school health advisory councils by each city, parish and local public school board; provides that the councils shall advise on issues relative to compliance with school vending machine restrictions, use of physical fitness assessment results, and school recess policies.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=663587
Title: H.B. 400
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/

NCSigned into law 06/2009P-12Removes the requirement that local school administrative units (LEAs) provide only abstinence until marriage education and requires LEAs to provide reproductive health and safety education in grades seven through nine; requires such education to include instruction on sexually transmitted diseases, contraceptive methods, and sexual assault and abuse; requires LEAs to provide a comprehensive school health education program that meets all the requirements of this subsection and all the objectives established by the State Board.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H88v8.pdf
Title: H.B. 88
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us

NJSigned into law 06/2009P-12Establishes pilot program in Department of Education to provide instruction in personal finance to high school seniors.
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2008/Bills/A2000/1943_I1.HTM
Title: A.B. 1943
Source: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us

TXSigned into law 06/2009P-12Bars the state from issuing a driver's license to a person under the age of 25 unless the person submits a driver education certificate that states that the person has completed and passed a state education agency-approved driver education and traffic safety course or driver education course (or approved equivalent), or if the person is 18 years of age or older, a driver education course approved by the Texas Education Agency. Authorizes the commissioner to charge a fee to each driver
education school in an amount not to exceed the actual expense incurred in the regulation of driver education courses. Directs the commissioner of education by rule to establish the curriculum and designate the educational materials a driver education course for minors and adults and a driver education course for adults only. Takes effect March 2010. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/SB01317F.pdf
Title: S.B. 1317
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

TXSigned into law 06/2009P-12Requires districts to consider offering a driver's education course each school year. Authorizes districts to charge fees for courses or contract with a driver education school. Establishes requirements for minimum hours of behind-the-wheel and observation instruction in driver's education courses. Bars the issue or renewal of an individual's driver's education instructor license if the individual has 6 or more points assigned to his/her license. Requires the state to collect data on collisions of students taught by public schools, licensed driver education schools, and other entities that offer driver education courses, and on the collision rate of students taught by certain course instructors. Requires the state to issue an annual report listing the collision rate for students taught by each driver education entity and the collision rate for students taught by specified course instructors, noting the severity of collisions involving students of each entity and each type of course.

Directs the department of public safety to appoint a task force to review and make recommendations on the effectiveness of materials provided by the state education agency for use in driver training schools. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB02730F.pdf
Title: H.B. 2730 - Sections 12.02 through -.04, 12.08, 12.13
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us

INSigned into law 05/2009P-12Requires public schools, charter schools and accredited nonpublic schools to provide instruction in personal financial responsibility to students in grades 9 through 12. Public Law 154.
http://www.state.in.us/legislative
Title: H.B. 1581
Source: http://www.state.in.us

KSSigned into law 05/2009P-12Requires the State Board of Education to develop state curriculum standards for personal financial literacy for all grade levels within the existing mathematics or other appropriate subject matter curriculum. Also requires the State Board to encourage school districts, when selected textbooks for mathematics, economics, family and consumer science, accounting or other appropriate courses, to select textbooks containing substantive provisions on personal finance. Chapter 2009-139
http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2010/84.pdf
Title: S.B. 84
Source: http://www.kslegislature.org

MNSigned into law 05/2009P-12 Establishes world language proficiency certificates. Permits all Minnesota schools to awards Minnesota World Language Proficiency Certificates or Minnesota World Language Proficiency High Achievement Certificates. Outlines the requirements a student must achieve to receive a World Language Proficiency Certificate.  Outlines the requirements a student must achieve to receive a World Language Proficiency High Achievement Certificate.
https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H0002.5.html&session=ls86
Title: H.F. 2
Source: https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us

MNSigned into law 05/2009P-12Establishes a process for the commissioner and qualified experts and other stakeholders including parents and teachers to develop a model that projects anticipated high school performance on preparation and rigorous coursework measures and compares schools with similar schools.
https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H0002.5.html&session=ls86
Title: H.F. 2
Source: https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us

NDSigned into law 05/2009P-12Beginning July 1, 2010, each school district shall ensure that its curriculum for either
economics or problems of democracy includes the exposure of students to concepts of
personal finance, including:
a. Checkbook mechanics, including writing checks, balancing, and statement
reconciliation;
b. Saving for larger purchases;
c. Credit, including credit card usage, interest, and fees;
d. Earning power, including jobs for teenagers;
e. Taxation and paycheck withholdings;
f. College costs;
g. Making and living within a budget; and
h. Mortgages, retirement savings, and investments.
Upon written request, the state superintendent may allow a school district annually to select courses other than economics or problems of democracy for purposes of
exposing students to the concepts of personal finance, as listed in this section, provided the school district can demonstrate that the number of students exposed to the concepts in
the other selected courses would meet or exceed the number of students exposed under the requirements of subsection 1. The requirements may be provided by the regular classroom teacher of the course in which the concepts of personal finance are incorporated.
http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/61-2009/bill-text/JARF1000.pdf
Title: H.B. 1400 - Sec. 25, Personal Finance
Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov

OHAdopted 05/2009P-12Sets criteria for family and consumer sciences programs in grades 7-12. Requires all such programs to be approved by the department of education. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/61/3301-61-04_PH_FF_N_RU_20090513_1242.pdf
Title: OAC 3301-61-04
Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us

TNSigned into law 05/2009Postsec.Authorizes any student to substitute three semester or three quarter hours of American government for three of the semester or quarter hours in American history required for a baccalaureate degree if offered by the higher education institution (was 6 semester hours/9 quarter). http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/billinfo/BillSummaryArchive.aspx?BillNumber=SB1073&ga=106
Title: S.B. 1073
Source: http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov

TXSigned into law 05/2009P-12Authorizes a driver education school to teach all or part of the classroom portion of an approved driver education course by an alternative method of instruction that does not require students to be present in a classroom if the commissioner of education approves the alternative method. Requires that the alternative method include testing and security measures equivalent to those in the usual classroom setting and satisfies any other applicable requirements. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/SB00858F.pdf
Title: S.B. 858
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

ARSigned into law 04/2009P-12Creates the State Legislative Task Force on the assessment and improvement of state history education in public schools.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2009/R/Acts/Act1462.pdf
Title: S.B. 452
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us

MDSigned into law 04/2009P-12Authorizes the State Department of Education to develop a standardized course numbering system to facilitate the collection of data on student participation in courses offered in the public schools; authorizes each county school system to adopt the standardized course numbering system on a voluntary basis; requires a specified county school system to provide a translation of course numbers under specified circumstances.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/bills/hb/hb0588e.pdf
Title: H.B. 588
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/

MDSigned into law 04/2009P-12Requires each local school system to develop and implement an annual physical fitness measurement program; establishes specified program elements for the fitness measurement programs; requires the State Department of Education to take specified steps to support the establishment of the fitness measurement programs; requires the Department to establish an Advisory Council on Health and Physical Education; provides for the membership of the Advisory Council.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/bills/sb/sb0879t.pdf
Title: S.B. 879
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us

MDSigned into law 04/2009P-12Authorizes local school systems to develop and implement Wellness Policy Implementation and Monitoring Plans to establish baseline student data for the health-related components of physical fitness and to assist students with personal fitness plans; relates to funding.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/bills/hb/hb1264t.pdf
Title: H.B. 1264; S.B. 879
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/

MTSigned into law 04/2009P-12Each agricultural education program in the state that completes the national quality program standard evaluation as adopted by rule and submits a plan of improvement to the office of public instruction's agricultural education specialist must receive a one-time payment of $500. Each of the 76 active agricultural education programs in the state that submits a detailed budget to increase the quality of its agricultural education program based on the plan of improvement may receive a one-time payment of up to $1,000. Each school that adds agricultural education to its curriculum and recruits and retains an endorsed agricultural education teacher must receive a one-time payment of up to $7,500.
http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2009/billpdf/HB0464.pdf

Title: H.B. 464
Source: http://data.opi.mt.gov/

NDSigned into law 04/2009P-12Provides for inclusion of the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution in the school social studies curriculum; provides for graduation requirements. http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/61-2009/bill-text/JBDQ0500.pdf
Title: H.B. 1435
Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov

NMSigned into law 04/2009P-12Requires that media literacy be offered as an elective for public school students in grades six through twelve.
http://nmlegis.gov/Sessions/09%20Regular/final/HB0342.pdf
Title: H.B. 342
Source: http://nmlegis.gov/

OKSigned into law 04/2009P-12Directs each school district to adopt a policy, with grade-level-appropriate instructional levels, that assures that all students are encouraged, and have the opportunity, to read and study the founding documents of America that are pertinent to understanding the principles, character, and world view of America's founders, including documents that contributed to the foundation or maintenance of America's representative republican form of limited government, the Bill of Rights, our free-market economic system, and patriotism. Each school district is required to permit a principal or teacher to use, read, or post in a public school building, classroom, or at any public school event any excerpts or portions of the documents, writings, speeches, proclamations, or records relating to the history, heritage, or foundation of the United States or the State of Oklahoma including, but not limited to, the:
1. Mayflower Compact;
2. Declaration of Independence;
3. Constitutions of the United States and the State of Oklahoma;
4. Federalist Papers;
5. Pledge of Allegiance;
6. National anthem;
7. Presidential records and speeches;
8. Acts and published records of Congress; and
9. United States Supreme Court decisions and records.
School districts may not limit or restrain instruction in American or Oklahoma state history or heritage based on religious references in documents, writings, speeches, proclamations, or the materials. These and any other materials shall be used for educational purposes only and not to establish or promote any religion. States that students may voluntarily choose to read, write, share, report, or otherwise study a topic which is religious in nature provided other students are provided with the same opportunity to freely choose a topic.
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2009-10HB/HB1756_int.rtf
Title: H.B. 1756
Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us

VASigned into law 03/2009P-12Requires the Board of Education to establish objectives for Holocaust education with an emphasis on the causes and ramifications of the Holocaust; provides that such objectives must be infused into the appropriate curriculum areas and Standards of Learning.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB2409ER
Title: H.B. 2409
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us

VASigned into law 03/2009P-12Requires that minor applicants for a driver's license show they have successfully completed, with a parent or guardian, an in-person 90-minute or longer driver safety course prescribed by DMV; increases the learner's permit issuance fee.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1782ER
Title: H.B. 1782
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/

VTSigned into law 03/2009P-12Intended to implement the November 2008 Report of the Senate Committee on Judiciary's 34-Point Comprehensive Plan for Vermont's Sexual Abuse Response System. Puts an emphasis on prevention by implementing a comprehensive statewide approach to the prevention of child sexual abuse; includes a sexual abuse prevention component in all school health curricula; conducts outreach efforts to raise awareness of families and communities about child sexual abuse; requires school districts to check the child abuse and neglect registry and vulnerable adult abuse, neglect, and exploitation registry prior to hiring staff or volunteers, and to conduct periodic rechecks of the registries.
http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/2010/bills/Passed/S-013.pdf
Title: S.B. 13
Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us

VASigned into law 02/2009P-12Adds the value and benefits of marriage for men, women, children, and communities to the list of topics to be covered in family life education curricula.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+SB827ER
Title: S.B. 827
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/

VASigned into law 02/2009P-12Adds the value and benefits of marriage for men, women, children, and communities to the list of topics to be covered in family life education curricula.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1746ER
Title: H.B. 1746
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/

VASigned into law 02/2009P-12Requires school divisions to include a detailed statement in the summary already required by law to be issued to parents and guardians to assist them in understanding the family life education program implemented in the school division, if the curriculum of the program offers only abstinence education.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1980ER
Title: H.B. 1980
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us

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