BILL NUMBER: AB 2203	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 16, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 8, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 15, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Solorio
    (   Coauthor:   Assembly Member  
Mendoza   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2010

   An act to add Section 66406.5 to the Education Code, relating to
public postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2203, as amended, Solorio. Public postsecondary education:
college textbooks.
   Existing law establishes the 3 segments of public postsecondary
education in this state. These segments include the California State
University, which is administered by the Trustees of the California
State University, the University of California, which is administered
by the Regents of the University of California, and the California
Community Colleges, which are administered by the Board of Governors
of the California Community Colleges.
   Existing law requires the trustees and the board of governors, and
requests the regents, to work with the academic senates of each
respective segment to encourage faculty to give consideration of the
least costly practices in assigning textbooks, including using a
selected textbook as long as it is educationally sound.
   This bill would  encourage   require 
the board of governors  ,   and  the
trustees, and  request  the regents  ,  to review
each respective segment's student transfer policies, and to revise
those policies, to ensure that students may continue to use a
textbook selected for a transfer or general education course,
regardless of publication date, for as long as the textbook is
available to students and the information contained in the textbook
is current and reflects contemporary thinking in the discipline.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 66406.5 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   66406.5.  The Board of Governors of the California Community
 Colleges,   Colleges and  the Trustees of
the California State University  shall  , and the Regents of
the University of California are  encouraged to 
 requested to,  review each respective segment's student
transfer policies, and to revise those policies, to ensure that
students may continue to use a textbook selected for a transfer or
general education course, regardless of publication date, for as long
as the textbook is available to students and the information
contained in the textbook is current and reflects contemporary
thinking in the discipline.