Amended in Senate April 2, 2013

Senate Bill No. 682

Introduced by Senator Lara

February 22, 2013

An act to add Section 60053 to the Education Code, relating to instructional materials.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 682, as amended, Lara. Instructional materials: begin delete electronic copies end delete begin insert digital versions end insert .

Existing law requires 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 authorizes the governing board of a school district to include relevant technology-based materials when adopting instructional materials for use in schools, if the materials are both available and comparable to other equivalent instructional materials.

This bill would authorize the governing board of a school district to provide begin delete an electronic copy end delete begin insert a digital version end insert of an adopted instructional material to a pupil that may be downloaded onto begin delete the pupil’s personal electronic tablet or other electronic device, and would provide that a pupil shall not be required to relinquish the electronic copy of the adopted instructional material at the completion of the course for which it was provided end delete begin insert an electronic device end insert . begin insert The bill would provide that during the school year digital versions of an adopted instructional material may be provided to pupils in compliance with a specified court case settlement agreement end insert begin insert . The bill, notwithstanding any other law, would provide that at the end of the school year digital versions of an adopted instructional material supplied to pupils may be treated as surplus property and retained by those pupils. end insert

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 60053 is added to the Education Code,
to read:

60053.  

begin insert (a) end insert begin insert   end insert The governing board of a school district may
provide begin delete an electronic copy end delete begin insert a digital version end insert of an adopted
instructional material to a pupil that may be downloaded onto begin delete the
pupil’s personal electronic tablet or other end delete begin insert an end insert electronic device.
begin delete The pupil shall not be required to relinquish the electronic copy
of the adopted instructional material at the completion of the course
for which it was provided. end delete

begin insert

(b) During the school year, digital versions of an adopted
instructional material may be provided to pupils in compliance
with the settlement agreement in the case of Williams v. State of
California (Case Number CGC-00-312236, of the Superior Court
for the County of San Francisco). Notwithstanding any other law,
at the end of the school year, digital versions of an adopted
instructional material supplied to pupils pursuant to this section
may be treated as surplus property and retained by those pupils.

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