BILL NUMBER: AB 456	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Patterson

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2015

   An act relating to public postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 456, as introduced, Patterson. Public postsecondary education:
University of California: California State University: electronic
textbooks.
   Existing law establishes the system of public higher education in
the state, which includes the University of California, administered
by the Regents of the University of California, and the California
State University, administered by the Trustees of the California
State University.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would require the California State University, and
request the University of California, to offer discounted electronic
textbook rentals for all textbooks assigned in courses, if the
content of the electronic and printed versions of a textbook are the
same.
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would require the California State University, and
request the University of California, to offer discounted electronic
textbook rentals for all textbooks assigned in courses, if the
content of the electronic and printed versions of a textbook are the
same.