Bill Text: CA AB133 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Instructional materials: digital format.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2013-08-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 157, Statutes of 2013. [AB133 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB133-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 133	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 12, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 11, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hagman
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Garcia)
   (Coauthor: Senator Nielsen)

                        JANUARY 16, 2013

   An act to add Section 60063 to the Education Code, relating to
instructional materials.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 133, as amended, Hagman. Instructional materials: digital
format.
   Existing law requires the State Board of Education and the
governing board of each school district maintaining one or more high
schools to adopt instructional materials for use in kindergarten and
grades 1 to 8, inclusive, and high schools, respectively. 
Existing law authorizes a local educational agency to use
instructional materials that are aligned with the adopted academic
content standards, as specified, including basic instructional
materials that have not been adopted by the state board. 
Existing law places specified requirements on a publisher or
manufacturer of instructional materials offered for adoption.
Existing law, until July 1, 2015, exempts school districts from
requirements to provide pupils with instructional materials by a
specified time period following adoption of those materials by the
state board.
   This bill would require a publisher or manufacturer that submits a
printed instructional material for adoption by the state 
board or   board, or for adoption or use by  the
governing board of a school district, on or after January 1, 2014, to
ensure that the printed instructional material is also available in
an equivalent digital format during the entire term of the adoption.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 60063 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   60063.  A publisher or manufacturer that submits a printed
instructional material for adoption by the state board pursuant to
Section 60200 or the governing board of a school district pursuant to
Section 60400,  or for use by the governing board of a school
district pursuant to Section 60210,  on or after January 1,
2014, shall ensure that the printed instructional material is also
available in an equivalent digital format during the entire term of
the adoption.