Official record
Measure details
- Jurisdiction
- Delaware
- Session
- 153
- Chamber
- lower
- Classification
- bill
- Subjects
- Not supplied
- Introduced / first action
- 2025-06-10 00:00:00
Alternate titles
- Financial Literacy/High School Course short title
Source-supplied abstracts
With 60% of U.S. households living paycheck to paycheck, 40% of Americans having less than $300 in savings, 33% of Americans having saved nothing for retirement, 95% of Americans having not saved enough for retirement, and 87% of American teens admitting not understanding their finances, financial literacy education in Delaware high schools is needed. This Act, which may be cited as “The Equity and Inclusion in Financial Literacy for All High School Students in Delaware Act”, requires high schools to provide, at a minimum, a 1/2 credit on financial literacy. And, beginning with students entering grade 9 in the 2026 through 2027 school year, successful completion of the credit will be required to obtain a high school diploma. This Act requires the credit to include instruction which meets the financial literacy standards for high school students adopted by the Department of Education. This substitute corrects a reference from "course" to "credit" in the synopsis.
Sponsors
- Jeff Hilovsky (primary), primary
- Richard G. Collins (primary), primary
- Timothy D. Dukes (primary), primary
- John "Jack" Walsh (primary), primary
- Valerie Jones Giltner (primary), primary
- Charles S Postles Jr. (primary), primary
- Bryan W. Shupe (primary), primary
- Dave G. Lawson (primary), primary
- Michael F. Smith (primary), primary
- Brian Pettyjohn (primary), primary
- Claire Snyder-Hall (primary), primary
- Russell Huxtable (primary), primary
- Ronald E. Gray (primary), primary
- Daniel B. Short (primary), primary
- Lyndon D. Yearick (primary), primary
- Cyndie Romer (primary), primary
- Marie Pinkney (primary), primary
- Trey Paradee (primary), primary
- Kerri Evelyn Harris (primary), primary
- Josue O Ortega (primary), primary
- Stell Parker Selby (primary), primary
- Spiros Mantzavinos (primary), primary
- David L. Wilson (primary), primary
- Franklin D. Cooke (primary), primary
- Bryant L. Richardson (primary), primary