BILL NUMBER: SB 247	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 6, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 14, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Alquist
    (   Principal coauthor:   Senator 
 Romero   ) 
    (   Coauthors:   Senators  
Maldonado   and Padilla   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2009

   An act to amend Section 60422 of the Education Code, relating to
electronic instructional materials.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 247, as amended, Alquist. Electronic instructional materials.
    Existing law, the Instructional Materials Funding Realignment
Program, provides for funds to be apportioned to school districts
based upon enrollment to ensure that each pupil is provided with a
standards-aligned textbook or basic instructional materials, as
adopted by the State Board of Education subsequent to the adoption of
content standards, or as adopted by the local governing board, for
grades 9 to 12, inclusive.
   This bill would provide that a local governing board may use
funding received pursuant to these provisions to purchase
state-adopted instructional materials  for grades 9 to 12,
inclusive,  in an electronic format if it provides each
pupil with the state-adopted instructional materials in an electronic
format to use in class and to take home, and if the materials are
accessible in their entirety at all times   . The bill
would also require that if the local governing board only purchases
instructional materials in an electronic format, the instructional
materials shall be made available for use in class and at home and
shall be accessible, in their entirety, as needed to complete
assignments in class and at home  .
   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 60422 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   60422.  (a) A local governing board shall use funding received
pursuant to this chapter to ensure that each pupil is provided with a
standards-aligned textbook or basic instructional materials, as
adopted by the State Board of Education subsequent to the adoption of
content standards pursuant to Section 60605 for kindergarten and
grades 1 to 8, inclusive, or as adopted by the local governing board
pursuant to Sections 60400 and 60411, for grades 9 to 12, inclusive.
Pupils shall be provided with standards-aligned textbooks or basic
instructional materials by the beginning of the first school term
that commences no later than 24 months after those materials were
adopted by the State Board of Education.
   (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a local governing
board may use funding received pursuant to this chapter to purchase
state-adopted instructional materials  for grades 9 to 12,
inclusive,  in an electronic  format, if it provides
each pupil with the state-adopted instructional materials in an
electronic format to use in class and at home, and if the
state-adopted instructional materials in an electronic format are
accessible in their entirety at all times.   format. If
the local governing board only purchases instructional materials in
an electronic format, the instructional materials shall be made
available for use in class and at home and shall be accessible, in
their entirety, as needed to complete assignments in class and at
home. 
   (c) Once a governing board certifies compliance with subdivision
(a) with regard to standards-aligned instructional materials in the
core curriculum areas of reading/language arts, mathematics, science,
and history/social sciences, and if the governing board of a school
district has met the eligibility requirements of Section 60119, the
remaining funds may only be used consistent with subdivision (a) of
Section 60242 and pursuant to Section 60242.5.
   (d) The State Board of Education may grant the school district
additional time to meet the purchasing requirements of subdivision
(a) if the governing board of the school district demonstrates, to
the satisfaction of the state board, that all of the following
criteria apply to the district:
   (1) The school district has implemented a well-designed,
standards-aligned basic instructional materials program.
   (2) The school district, at the time of its request for additional
time pursuant to this subdivision, has sufficient textbooks or basic
instructional materials for use by each pupil.
   (3) The school district has adopted a plan for the purchase of
standards-aligned instructional materials in accordance with
subdivision (a) but that plan indicated an alternative date for
compliance that is declared in the request for additional time.
   (e) The funds provided for the purchase of instructional materials
in Schedules 1 and 2 of Item 6110-189-0001 and paragraph 6 of Item
6110-485 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2002 shall be used for
the purposes of, and allocated consistent with, this chapter.