HB27

The introduced bill also proposed moving personal financial literacy from the general enrichment-curriculum list into the foundation list and rewriting the separate elective-course statute. The House committee substitute removed those two proposed statutory amendments and added the designated-AP-course alternative. The graduation-credit changes and repeal of the combined-course time formula remained.

The House committee, House-passed and Senate committee operative texts are identical. They would have started the new cohort rule in 2025–26. The official amendment index lists one floor amendment: Flores’s Senate F1, adopted May 27. It moved the two cohort references in section 3 and the general school-year reference in section 4 to 2026–27. All three changed references appear in the final law. Text versions.

The Senate passed the amended bill 31–0. The House concurred 135–2, with one present but not voting. These are passage and concurrence votes, not a claimed separate roll-call tally on the amendment. The final law keeps the personal-finance requirement while giving schools and the incoming student cohort one additional year before it applies. Final text and certificates.

Compare the published text versions in the official text index. A change is not attributed to a specific amendment here without a verified record.

Students in the affected cohorts gain required personal-finance instruction, while schools must arrange appropriate courses, staffing and student schedules. The AP alternative may offer another route where a qualifying board-designated course is available. The statute does not guarantee improved household finances, access to a particular AP class or funding for each school.

The May 28, 2025 final-stage fiscal note anticipates no significant state fiscal impact and assumes costs can be absorbed with existing resources. All four earlier posted notes reach the same state-budget conclusion. No quantified local-cost estimate or new appropriation is supplied.

The note’s local-impact sentence does not accurately describe the final curriculum choice: it says districts must implement “a new one credit course in economics.” The enrolled law instead requires at least a half-credit of personal financial literacy and allows economics, world geography or world history for another credit. The statutory text controls this explanation; the fiscal sentence should not be repeated as a separate universal economics mandate. Enrolled section 1. This briefing explains the enacted requirements, not a certification that every district has completed implementation or that a particular AP course has been approved.