BILL NUMBER: SB 509	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 3, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 14, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Price

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to amend Section 1240.3 of the Education Code, relating to
instructional materials.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 509, as amended, Price. Instructional materials.
   Existing law states the Legislature's intent that each local
educational agency provide each pupil with standards-aligned
textbooks or instructional materials from the same adoption,
consistent with specified provisions of law.
   This bill would authorize each school district to purchase the
newest adopted instructional materials for the neediest schools in
the school district, as defined, prior to purchasing these materials
for the remaining schools in the district.
   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 1240.3 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
   1240.3.  (a) For purposes of Section 1240, for the 2008-09 to
2014-15 fiscal years, inclusive, sufficient textbooks or
instructional materials include standards-aligned textbooks or
instructional materials, or both, that were adopted prior to July 1,
2008, by the state board or local educational agency pursuant to
statute, unless those local educational agencies purchased or
arranged to purchase textbooks or instructional materials adopted by
the state board after that date. It is the intent of the Legislature
that each local educational agency provide each pupil with
standards-aligned textbooks or instructional materials from the same
adoption, consistent with Sections 60119 and 60422. However, a school
district may purchase the newest adopted instructional materials for
the neediest schools in the school district, defined as schools
ranked in deciles 1 to 3, inclusive, of the base Academic Performance
Index in  any one of  the past three school years, prior to
purchasing these materials for the remaining schools in the
district. For those schools that do not have  three years of
valid rankings in the base Academic Performance Index,  
at least one year of valid rankings in the base Academic Performance
Index for the previous three years,  a school district may
establish criteria to define the "neediest schools" for purposes of
this subdivision. This section does not require a local educational
agency to purchase all of the instructional materials included in an
adoption if the materials that are purchased are made available to
all the pupils for whom they are intended in all of the schools
within the local educational agency.
   (b) Notwithstanding Section 1240 or any other law, for the 2008-09
to 2014-15 fiscal years, inclusive, a county superintendent of
schools, in making visits to schools as specified in Section 1240,
shall determine the status of sufficient textbooks as defined in
subdivision (a).
   (c) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2015, and, as
of January 1, 2016, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that
is enacted before January 1, 2016, deletes or extends the dates on
which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.