Bill Text: OH HB616 | 2013-2014 | 130th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: With regard to the selection, availability, and purchase of textbooks that are required for a course offered by any state institution of higher education.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-09-02 - To Education [HB616 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2013-HB616-Introduced.html
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Representative DeVitis
Cosponsors:
Representatives Terhar, Butler, Thompson, Milkovich, Hagan, C.
| To enact section 3345.47 of the Revised Code with | 1 |
| regard to the selection, availability, and | 2 |
| purchase of textbooks that are required for a | 3 |
| course offered by any state institution of higher | 4 |
| education. | 5 |
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
| Section 1. That section 3345.47 of the Revised Code be | 6 |
| enacted to read as follows: | 7 |
| Sec. 3345.47. (A) For purposes of this section: | 8 |
| (1) "State institution of higher education" has the same | 9 |
| meaning as in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code. | 10 |
| (2) "Proprietary textbook" means a textbook that is used, | 11 |
| produced, or marketed under exclusive legal right of any state | 12 |
| institution of higher education or of a faculty member of any | 13 |
| state institution of higher education, and for which the faculty | 14 |
| member or institution earns royalties or other financial benefit | 15 |
| upon the textbook's purchase. | 16 |
| (3) "Customized textbook" means any customized educational | 17 |
| material, any combination of original manuscripts, published | 18 |
| journal articles, book excerpts, photographs, or illustrations, | 19 |
| including, but not limited to, course instructional materials | 20 |
| authored in part by the faculty member who assigned the textbook. | 21 |
| (4) A course of instruction is "exclusively offered" by a | 22 |
| state institution of higher education when the subject matter of | 23 |
| the course is discrete, unique, and not offered by any other state | 24 |
| institution of higher education in the same or substantially | 25 |
| similar format or manner. A course of instruction is not | 26 |
| "exclusively offered" by a state institution of higher education | 27 |
| when the course is transferable as determined by the chancellor of | 28 |
| the Ohio board of regents or as provided for in sections 3333.16, | 29 |
| 3333.161, or 3333.162 of the Revised Code. | 30 |
| (B)(1) No state institution of higher education shall | 31 |
| produce, publish, or require a student to purchase a proprietary | 32 |
| or customized textbook unless that textbook is required for a | 33 |
| course of instruction that is exclusively offered by the | 34 |
| institution. | 35 |
| (2) No faculty member of a state institution of higher | 36 |
| education shall require a student to purchase a proprietary | 37 |
| textbook or a customized textbook for use in that faculty member's | 38 |
| course of instruction unless the course of instruction is | 39 |
| exclusively offered by the institution. | 40 |
| (C) If a student is required to purchase or use a specific | 41 |
| textbook for a course offered by any state institution of higher | 42 |
| education, that textbook shall be made available for purchase | 43 |
| through at least two suppliers, one of which shall not be an | 44 |
| entity owned or affiliated with the institution. This division | 45 |
| does not apply to any textbook that is required for a course of | 46 |
| instruction that is exclusively offered by the institution. | 47 |
