BILL NUMBER: SB 682	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 15, 2013
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 2, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Lara

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to add Section 60053 to the Education Code, relating to
instructional materials.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 682, as amended, Lara. Instructional materials: digital
versions.
   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 a digital version of an adopted instructional material to
a pupil that may be downloaded onto an electronic device. The bill
would provide that during the school year digital versions of an
adopted instructional material may be provided to pupils in
compliance with a specified court case settlement agreement. The bill
 , notwithstanding any other law,  would provide
that at the end of the school year digital versions of an adopted
instructional material supplied to pupils may be  treated as
surplus property and  retained by those pupils  provided
that the retention of the digital version of an adopted
instructional material does not violate any copyright law or contract
between the school district and publisher or manufacturer  .
   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 60053 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   60053.  (a) The governing board of a school district may provide a
digital version of an adopted instructional material to a pupil that
may be downloaded onto an electronic device.
   (b) During the school year, digital versions of an adopted
instructional material may be provided to pupils in compliance with
the settlement agreement in the case of Williams v. State of
California (Case Number  CGC-00-312236,   
 CGC-00-312236  of the Superior Court for the County of San
Francisco).  Notwithstanding any other law, at  
At  the end of the school year, digital versions of an adopted
instructional material supplied to pupils pursuant to this section
may be  treated as surplus property and  retained by
those pupils  provided that the retention of the digital version
of an adopted instructional material does not violate any copyright
law or contract between the school district and publisher or manufact
  urer  .