BILL NUMBER: AB 1790	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hagman

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2012

   An act to add Section 60063 to the Education Code, relating to
instructional materials.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1790, as introduced, Hagman. Instructional materials: digital
format.
   Existing law authorizes the State Board of Education and the
governing board of each school district maintaining one or more high
schools to adopt instructional materials for use in kindergarten and
grades 1 to 8, inclusive, and high schools, respectively. Existing
law places specified requirements on a publisher or manufacturer of
instructional materials offered for adoption.
   This bill would require a publisher or manufacturer submitting an
instructional material for adoption by the state board or the
governing board of a school district to ensure that the instructional
material is available in both print and digital formats. The bill
would not authorize the use of instructional materials that would
constitute an infringement of copyright under specified federal law.

   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 60063 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   60063.  (a) A publisher or manufacturer submitting an
instructional material for adoption by the state board or the
governing board of a school district pursuant to Sections 60200 and
60400 shall ensure that the instructional material is available in
both print and digital formats.
   (b) This section does not authorize the use of instructional
materials that would constitute an infringement of copyright under
the federal Copyright Revision Act of 1976, as amended (17 U.S.C.
Sec. 101 et seq.).