BILL NUMBER: AB 1790	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 20, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 10, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 7, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hagman
    (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members 
 Jeffries   and Silva   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2012

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1790, as amended, 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. Existing law, until
July 1, 2015, exempts school districts from requirements to provide
pupils with instructional materials by a specified time period
following adoption of those materials by the state board.
   This bill would require a publisher or manufacturer submitting
 an   a printed  instructional material for
adoption by the state board or the governing board of a school
district to ensure that the  printed  instructional material
is  also  available in  both print and 
 a  digital  formats   format 
during the entire term of the adoption. The bill would not authorize
the use of instructional materials that would constitute an
infringement of copyright under specified federal law. The bill would
apply these provisions only to adoptions that occur after the
exemption time period described above.
   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
  a printed  instructional material for adoption by
the state board pursuant to Section 60200 or the governing board of
a school district pursuant to Section 60400 shall ensure that the
printed  instructional material is  also  available in
 both print and   a  digital 
formats   format  during the entire term of the
adoption.
   (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.).
   (c) This section shall apply only to instructional material
adoptions that occur after the inoperative date established in
Section 60049. 
   (d) This section does not require a publisher or manufacturer that
submits an instructional material in digital format only for
adoption by the state board or the governing board of a school
district to offer or submit an equivalent print version of the
instructional material in digital format.