BILL NUMBER: SB 1328	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 25, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 18, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Senator De León

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2012

   An act to add Section 66407.5 to the Education Code, relating to
postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1328, as amended, De León. Postsecondary education: textbooks.
   The Donahoe Higher Education Act authorizes the activities of the
4 segments of the higher education system in the state. These
segments include the 3 public segments: the University of California,
which is administered by the Regents of the University of
California, the California State University, which is administered by
the Trustees of the California State University, and the California
Community Colleges, which is administered by the Board of Governors
of the California Community Colleges. Private and independent
institutions of higher education constitute the other segment.
Provisions of the Donahoe Higher Education Act apply to the
University of California only to the extent that the regents act, by
resolution, to make them applicable.
   Existing law urges textbook publishers to take specified actions
aimed at reducing the amounts that postsecondary education students
currently pay for textbooks. Existing law requires the Trustees of
the California State University and the Board of Governors of the
California Community Colleges, and requests the Regents of the
University of California, among other things, to work with the
academic senates of each respective segment to encourage faculty to
give consideration to the least costly practices in assigning
textbooks, to encourage faculty to disclose to students how new
editions of textbooks are different from previous editions and the
cost to students for textbooks selected, to review procedures for
faculty to inform college and university bookstores of textbook
selections, and to encourage faculty to work closely with publishers
and college and university bookstores in creating bundles and
packages that are economically sound and deliver cost savings to
students.
   Existing law expresses the intent of the Legislature to encourage
private colleges and universities to work with their respective
academic senates and to encourage faculty to consider practices in
selecting textbooks that will result in the lowest costs to students.

   This bill would require a publisher that supplies textbooks or
other instructional material to a postsecondary educational
institution, as defined to include both public and private
postsecondary educational institutions, or  to  a faculty
member of a postsecondary educational institution  ,  to
provide information about that textbook or item of instructional
material in a specified order using a standard XML or comma-delimited
format. 
   The bill would require a publisher to which this bill is
applicable to submit the data referenced above to the Multimedia
Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)
program of the California State University. The bill would require
that this data be available for public review and use. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  yes
 no  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 66407.5 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   66407.5.  (a) A publisher that supplies textbooks or other
instructional material to a postsecondary educational institution or
 to  a faculty member of a postsecondary educational
institution shall provide the following information about that
textbook or item of instructional material using a standard XML or
comma-delimited format, or both, in the order listed below:
   (1) Book title.
   (2) Author.
   (3) Publisher.
   (4) ISBN.
   (5) Retail price.
   (6) Edition.
   (7) Copyright date. 
   (b) A publisher to which subdivision (a) is applicable shall
submit the data referenced in subdivision (a) to the Multimedia
Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)
program of the California State University. This data shall be
available for public review and use.  
   (c) 
    (   b)  As used in this section:
   (1) "Comma-delimited" means a type of data format in which each
piece of data is separated by a comma.
   (2) "ISBN" means the International Standard Book Number, a numeric
commercial book identifier.
   (3) "Postsecondary educational institution" includes both private
and public postsecondary educational institutions.
   (4) "XML" means Extensible Markup Language, which is designed to
transport and store data.