Bill Text: CA SB1154 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Instructional materials: digital format.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Vetoed) 2012-09-27 - In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending. [SB1154 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB1154-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1154	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Walters

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2012

   An act to amend Section 60422.1 of the Education Code, relating to
instructional materials.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1154, as introduced, Walters. Instructional materials:
electronic format.
   Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt at
least 5 basic instructional materials in specified subject areas for
use in kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, for district
boards, as defined. Existing law also requires the governing board of
each school district maintaining one or more high schools to adopt
instructional materials that meet specified criteria for use in the
high schools under its control.
   Existing law requires a publisher or manufacturer of instructional
materials to provide to the state, at no cost, computer files or
other electronic versions of each state-adopted literary title and
the right to transcribe, reproduce, modify, and distribute the
material in braille, large print if the publisher does not offer a
large print edition, recordings, American Sign Language videos for
the deaf, or other specialized accessible media exclusively for use
by pupils with visual disabilities or other disabilities that prevent
use of standard instructional materials.
    Existing law authorizes a local governing board, as defined, to
use funding received from the state for instructional materials to
purchase state-adopted instructional materials for kindergarten and
grades 1 to 8, inclusive, and state standards-aligned materials for
grades 9 to 12, inclusive, in an electronic or hardbound format if it
can ensure that each pupil will be provided with a copy of the
instructional materials to use at school and at home.
   This bill would require a publisher or manufacturer of
instructional materials to provide, at no cost, an electronic copy of
instructional materials that a district board purchases in a
hardbound format. The bill would authorize a district board to
electronically reproduce, for instructional use only, an electronic
copy provided by a publisher or manufacturer of instructional
materials. The bill also would authorize a district board to enter
into an agreement with a program improvement local educational agency
by which the district board may share with that local educational
agency the electronically reproduced copies of instructional
materials.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 60422.1 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
   60422.1.   (a)    Notwithstanding any other
 provision of  law, a  local governing
  district  board may use funding received pursuant
to this chapter to purchase state-adopted instructional materials
for kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, and state
standards-aligned materials for grades 9 to 12, inclusive, in an
electronic or hardbound format if it can ensure that each pupil will
be provided with a copy of the instructional materials to use at
school and at home. However, providing access to the materials at
school and at home does not require the local educational agency to
purchase two sets of materials. 
   (b) A publisher or manufacturer of instructional materials shall
provide, at no cost, an electronic copy of instructional materials
that a district board purchases in a hardbound format. A district
board may electronically reproduce, for instructional use only, an
electronic copy made available pursuant to this subdivision. A
district board may enter into an agreement with a local educational
agency identified as a program improvement local educational agency
under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (20 U.S.C. Sec.
6301 et seq.) by which the district board may share with that local
educational agency the electronically reproduced copies of
instructional materials.