Amended in Senate May 15, 2013

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: digital versions.

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 a digital version of an adopted instructional material to a pupil that may be downloaded onto an electronic device. 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. The bill begin delete , notwithstanding any other law, end delete would provide that at the end of the school year digital versions of an adopted instructional material supplied to pupils may be begin delete treated as surplus property and end delete retained by those pupils begin insert provided that the retention of the digital version of an adopted instructional material does not violate any copyright law or contract between the school district and publisher or manufacturer 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.  

(a) The governing board of a school district may
provide a digital version of an adopted instructional material to a
pupil that may be downloaded onto an electronic device.

(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 begin delete CGC-00-312236, end delete begin insert end insert begin insert CGC-00-312236 end insert of
the Superior Court for the County of San Francisco).
begin delete Notwithstanding any other law, at end delete begin insert At end insert the end of the school year,
digital versions of an adopted instructional material supplied to
pupils pursuant to this section may be begin delete treated as surplus property
and end delete retained by those pupils begin insert provided that the retention of the
digital version of an adopted instructional material does not violate
any copyright law or contract between the school district and
publisher or manufacturer end insert .