Amended in Assembly April 11, 2013

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly BillNo. 133


Introduced by Assembly Member Hagman

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(Coauthor: Assembly Member Garcia)

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(Coauthor: Senator Nielsen)

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January 16, 2013


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

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 133, as amended, 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 manufacturerbegin delete submittingend deletebegin insert that submitsend insert a printed instructional material for adoption by the state board or the governing board of a school districtbegin insert, on or after January 1, 2014,end insert 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:

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SECTION 1.  

Section 60063 is added to the Education Code,
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60063.  

A publisher or manufacturerbegin delete submittingend deletebegin insert that submitsend insert a
4printed instructional material for adoption by the state board
5pursuant to Section 60200 or the governing board of a school
6district pursuant to Section 60400begin insert, on or after January 1, 2014,end insert
7 shall ensure that the printed instructional material is also available
8in an equivalent digital format during the entire term of the
9adoption.



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