GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
H	1
HOUSE BILL 217

 
 
Short Title:	School Curriculum Must Include Consumer Educ.	()	
Sponsors:	Representatives Miller;  Adams, Bell, Cunningham, Gibson, Hunter, Luebke, Michaux, Nesbitt, Oldham, Wainwright, and Womble.	
Referred to:	Education.	
February 22, 2001

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO REQUIRE THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO PROVIDE CONSUMER EDUCATION IN GRADES NINE THROUGH TWELVE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 115C‑81 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:
"(i)	The State Board of Education shall adopt a consumer education curriculum for grades 9 through 12 and shall specify the minimum amount of instructional time that shall be devoted to it.  Topics covered in the curriculum shall include, but not be limited to, installment purchasing, budgeting, investing, banking, bank lending practices, comparisons between conventional and sub-prime lending sources, consumer credit issues, win/loss ratios of State-sponsored lotteries, comparisons of prices, and an understanding of the consumer's role in formulating and achieving the goals of the mixed free enterprise system through the consumer's interaction with agriculture, business, labor unions, and government."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies beginning with the 2001‑2002 school year.