Amended in Senate June 12, 2013

Amended in Assembly April 11, 2013

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly BillNo. 133


Introduced by Assembly Member Hagman

(Coauthor: Assembly Member Garcia)

(Coauthor: Senator Nielsen)

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.begin insert Existing law authorizes a local educational agency to use instructional materials that are aligned with the adopted academic content standards, as specified, including basic instructional materials that have not been adopted by the state board.end insert 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 that submits a printed instructional material for adoption by the statebegin delete board orend deletebegin insert board, or for adoption or use byend insert the governing board of a school district, on or after January 1, 2014, 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 manufacturer that submits a printed
4instructional material for adoption by the state board pursuant to
5Section 60200 or the governing board of a school district pursuant
6to Section 60400,begin insert or for use by the governing board of a school
7district pursuant to Section 60210,end insert
on or after January 1, 2014,
8shall ensure that the printed instructional material is also available
9in an equivalent digital format during the entire term of the
10adoption.



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