SB 682, as introduced, Lara. Instructional materials: electronic copies.
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 authorizes the governing board of a school district to include relevant technology-based materials when adopting instructional materials for use in schools, if the materials are both available and comparable to other equivalent instructional materials.
This bill would authorize the governing board of a school district to provide an electronic copy of an adopted instructional material to a pupil that may be downloaded onto the pupil’s personal electronic tablet or other electronic device, and would provide that a pupil shall not be required to relinquish the electronic copy of the adopted instructional material at the completion of the course for which it was provided.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 60053 is added to the Education Code,
2to read:
The governing board of a school district may provide
2an electronic copy of an adopted instructional material to a pupil
3that may be downloaded onto the pupil’s personal electronic tablet
4or other electronic device. The pupil shall not be required to
5relinquish the electronic copy of the adopted instructional material
6at the completion of the course for which it was provided.
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