California Assembly Bill AB2203 Amended / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 2203AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 9, 2010 AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 16, 2010 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 8, 2010 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 15, 2010 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Solorio (Coauthor: Assembly Member Mendoza) FEBRUARY 18, 2010 An act to add Section 66406.5 to the Education Code, relating to public postsecondary education. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2203, as amended, Solorio. Public postsecondary education: college textbooks. Existing law establishes the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in this state. These segments include the California State University, which is administered by the Trustees of the California State University, the University of California, which is administered by the Regents of the University of California, and the California Community Colleges, which are administered by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. Existing law requires the trustees and the board of governors, and requests the regents, to work with the academic senates of each respective segment to encourage faculty to give consideration of the least costly practices in assigning textbooks, including using a selected textbook as long as it is educationally sound. This bill would require  the board of governors and  the trustees, and request the regents, to review each respective segment's student transfer policies, and to revise those policies, to ensure that  students may continue to use   faculty may choose  a textbook selected for a transfer or general education course, regardless of publication date, for as long as the textbook is available to students and the information contained in the textbook is current and reflects contemporary thinking in the discipline. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 66406.5 is added to the Education Code, to read: 66406.5.  The Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges and the  Trustees of the California State University shall, and the Regents of the University of California are requested to, review each respective segment's student transfer policies, and to revise those policies, to ensure that  students may continue to use   faculty may choose  a textbook selected for a transfer or general education course, regardless of publication date, for as long as the textbook is available to students and the information contained in the textbook is current and reflects contemporary thinking in the discipline.