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Committee expands grades that satisfy personal-finance graduation requirement and adopts retroactivity amendment
Summary
Senate Bill 283 was amended to allow the personal finance course to count toward graduation if taken in grades 9–12; the committee adopted an amendment to make the change retroactive for students who already completed the course and voted to report the bill with a do-pass recommendation.
A Senate committee adopted an amendment to Senate Bill 283 expanding the grade levels in which a personal finance course may be taken and count toward the high school graduation requirement, and the committee voted to report the bill to the full Senate with a do-pass recommendation.
Committee counsel explained the bill would allow the personal finance course to be taken in ninth or tenth grade in addition to the current eleventh or twelfth grade options. "This bill expands the…
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