BILL NUMBER: AB 2203	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 11, 2010
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 16, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 9, 2010
	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, 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 require the trustees, and request the regents, to
review each respective segment's student transfer policies, and to
revise those policies, to ensure that faculty may choose 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.


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 Trustees of the California State University shall,
and the Regents of the University of California are requested to,
review each respective segment's student transfer policies, and to
revise those policies, to ensure that faculty may choose 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.