BILL NUMBER: AB 456	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 26, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Patterson

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2015

   An act  to add Section 66411 to the Education Code, 
relating to public postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 456, as amended, Patterson. Public postsecondary education:
University of California: California State University: electronic
textbooks.
   Existing law establishes the system of public  higher
  postsecondary  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. 
Existing law urges publishers of textbooks specifically designed for
postsecondary instruction to take specified actions aimed at
reducing the amounts that students pay for textbooks, including
providing to faculty and departments considering textbook orders a
list of all the different products the publisher sells. 
   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  to their students 
for  all textbooks   each textbook 
assigned in  courses,   a course,  if the
content of the electronic and printed versions of  a
  the  textbook are the same.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 66411 is added to the 
 Education Code   , to read:  
   66411.  The California State University shall, and the University
of California is requested to, offer discounted electronic textbook
rentals to their students for each textbook assigned in a course, if
the content of the electronic and printed versions of the textbook
are the same.  
  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.