BILL NUMBER: SB 509	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 2, 2011
	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  pupils in all of
 the neediest schools in the school district, as defined,
 prior to purchasing   without incurring a duty
to purchase  these materials for  pupils in  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
 pupils in all of  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   without incurring a duty to purchase
these materials for pupils in the schools ranked in deciles 4 to 10,
inclusive, of the base Academic Performance Index  in the
district. For those schools that do not have 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.