Bill Text: TX HB213 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 213 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to requirements regarding electronic access to instructional materials provided in printed book format purchased for public schools.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-25 - Withdrawn from schedule [HB213 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB213-Introduced.html

	85R1996 KJE-D

	By: Canales	H.B. No. 213



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to requirements regarding electronic access to
	instructional materials provided in printed book format purchased
	for public schools.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 31, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 31.036 to read as follows:
	Sec. 31.036. ACCESS TO PRINTED INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS IN
	ELECTRONIC FORMAT. (a) This section applies only to instructional
	materials or supplemental instructional materials provided in
	printed book format.
	(b) The publisher of instructional materials or
	supplemental instructional materials subject to this section
	purchased as provided by this chapter for a school district shall
	provide the district at no additional cost with access to the
	materials in an electronic format as provided by this section.
	(c) Instructional materials or supplemental instructional
	materials may be accessed in an electronic format under this
	section only for educational purposes by:
	(1) students enrolled in a course or subject for which
	the materials were purchased for the purpose of completing that
	course or subject and only for the period during which the student
	is enrolled;
	(2) teachers providing instruction in a course or
	subject for which the materials were purchased for the purpose of
	providing that instruction and only for the period during which the
	materials in printed book format are assigned for that course or
	subject; and
	(3) school and district administrators for a district
	campus at which a course or subject for which the materials were
	purchased is provided and only for the period during which the
	materials in printed book format are assigned for that course or
	subject.
	(d) The commissioner shall adopt rules to administer this
	section.
	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
	to instructional materials or supplemental instructional materials
	purchased under a contract entered into on or after the effective
	date of this Act. Instructional materials or supplemental
	instructional materials purchased under a contract entered into
	before the effective date of this Act are governed by the law in
	effect on the date the contract was entered into, and the former law
	is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
	Act takes effect September 1, 2017.