WEST virginia legislature

2021 regular session

Committee Substitute

for

Senate Bill 585

By Senators Beach and Lindsay

[Originating in the Committee on Education; reported on March 24, 2021]

A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §18-2-7g, relating to allowing the State Board of Education to develop a program of instruction in family and consumer sciences, or specific subjects within family and consumer sciences, that may be integrated into the curriculum for students in secondary schools.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 2. STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

 §18-2-7g.  Program in family and consumer sciences.

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that:

(1) Persons with an understanding of family and consumer sciences are better prepared to perform everyday activities such as cooking, sewing, house cleaning, minor home repair, budgeting, and time management;

(2) Possessing these skills would go a long way to help students have more successful lives as independent human beings; and

(3) Providing a family and consumer sciences course in secondary schools in West Virginia will prepare students to handle their everyday life issues.

(b) To provide students a basic familiarity with those issues, the state board may develop a program of instruction in family and consumer sciences, or specific subjects within family and consumer sciences, that may be integrated into the curriculum for students in secondary schools.