BILL NUMBER: AB 133	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hagman

                        JANUARY 16, 2013

   An act to add Section 60063 to the Education Code, relating to
instructional materials.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 133, as introduced, Hagman. Instructional materials: digital
format.
   Existing law requires the State Board of Education and the
governing board of each school district maintaining one or more high
schools to adopt instructional materials for use in kindergarten and
grades 1 to 8, inclusive, and high schools, respectively. Existing
law places specified requirements on a publisher or manufacturer of
instructional materials offered for adoption. Existing law, until
July 1, 2015, exempts school districts from requirements to provide
pupils with instructional materials by a specified time period
following adoption of those materials by the state board.
   This bill would require a publisher or manufacturer submitting a
printed instructional material for adoption by the state board or the
governing board of a school district to ensure that the printed
instructional material is also available in an equivalent digital
format during the entire term of the adoption.
   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 60063 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   60063.  A publisher or manufacturer submitting a printed
instructional material for adoption by the state board pursuant to
Section 60200 or the governing board of a school district pursuant to
Section 60400 shall ensure that the printed instructional material
is also available in an equivalent digital format during the entire
term of the adoption.