Tex. Educ. Code § 28.0024 · Subchapter A. ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS; CURRICULUM
SCHOOL-BASED SAVINGS PROGRAM.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may establish a school-based savings program to facilitate increased awareness of the importance of saving for higher education and facilitate personal financial literacy instruction. A district or school may offer the program in conjunction with a personal financial literacy course under Section 28.0021.
(b) A school-based savings program may, through partnerships with appropriate institutions, promote:
(1) general savings, by offering savings accounts or certificates of deposit through partner financial institutions; or
(2) savings dedicated for higher education, by offering through partner institutions the following accounts or bonds the primary purpose of which must be to pay expenses associated with higher education:
(A) an account authorized under Section 529, Internal Revenue Code of 1986;
(B) a Coverdell education savings account established under 26 U.S.C. Section 530;
(C) a certificate of deposit;
(D) a savings account; and
(E) a Series I savings bond.
(c) A district or school establishing a program under this section:
(1) shall seek to establish partnerships with appropriate institutions that are able to offer an account or bond under Subsection (b); and
(2) may seek to establish partnerships with public sector partners, private businesses, nonprofit organizations, and philanthropic organizations in the community.
(d) A partnership established under Subsection (c) between a district or school and:
(1) an appropriate institution may allow a student in the program or the student and an adult in the student's family jointly to have an opportunity to establish an account or purchase a bond under Subsection (b); and
(2) an appropriate institution, public sector partner, private business, or nonprofit or philanthropic organization may provide:
(A) a structure for the management of the program; and
(B) incentives that encourage contribution to a school-based account or purchase of a bond under Subsection (b), including incentives that provide matching funds or seed funding.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1265 (H.B. 3987), Sec. 1, eff. June 20, 2015.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ED/htm/ED.28.htm
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Human Resources Code
- Tex. Hum. Res. Code § 31.0039EXCLUSION OF ASSETS IN PREPAID TUITION PROGRAMS AND HIGHER EDUCATION SAVINGS PLANS.Printed as Section 28.0024(b)(2), Education Code
- Tex. Hum. Res. Code § 32.02611EXCLUSION OF ASSETS IN PREPAID TUITION PROGRAMS AND HIGHER EDUCATION SAVINGS PLANS.Printed as Section 28.0024(b)(2), Education Code
- Tex. Hum. Res. Code § 33.0291EXCLUSION OF SCHOOL-BASED ACCOUNTS AND CERTAIN BONDS.Printed as Section 28.0024(b)(2), Education Code
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