Bill Text: VA HB709 | 2010 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Electronic textbooks; allows for purchase of printed textbooks, etc., for public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Passed) 2010-03-09 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0097) [HB709 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2010-HB709-Prefiled.html
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: 1. That § 22.1-241 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows: §22.1-241. Contracts with publishers. A. Local school boards shall either enter into written term contracts or issue purchase orders on an as-needed basis with publishers of textbooks approved by the Board for use in the public schools. Such written contracts or purchase orders for textbooks approved by the Board shall be exempt from the Virginia Public Procurement Act (§2.2-4300 et seq.). The contract price shall not exceed the lowest wholesale price
at which the If, subsequent to the date of any contract entered into by a
local school board, the prices of B. Contracts and purchase orders with publishers of textbooks approved by the Board shall require the publisher to furnish an electronic file of the textbook in the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standards (NIMAS) format that will then be deposited in the National Instructional Materials Access Center (NIMAC) from which accessible versions of the particular textbook may be produced for students with print disabilities, as defined in 20 U.S.C. §1474. Publishers shall deliver the NIMAS file of the textbook on or before the date of delivery of the regular text version. Contracts and purchase orders with publishers of textbooks approved by the Board for use in grades 6 - 12 shall allow for the purchase of printed textbooks, printed textbooks with electronic files, or electronic textbooks separate and apart from printed versions of the same textbook. Each school board shall have the authority to purchase an assortment of textbooks in any of the three forms listed above. C. Every school board shall order directly from the respective
publishers the D. With the approval of the local school board and the publisher, any private school within the school division that so requests may purchase from the local school board's contract with the publisher. Such private school shall be fully responsible for ordering, purchasing, and receiving shipments of books to be provided from the publisher pursuant to this section. The local school board shall be immune from any civil liability as a result of a private school purchasing from the local school board's contract. |