BILL NUMBER: AB 1790INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Hagman FEBRUARY 21, 2012 An act to add Section 60063 to the Education Code, relating to instructional materials. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 1790, as introduced, 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. This bill would require a publisher or manufacturer submitting an instructional material for adoption by the state board or the governing board of a school district to ensure that the instructional material is available in both print and digital formats. The bill would not authorize the use of instructional materials that would constitute an infringement of copyright under specified federal law. 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 instructional material for adoption by the state board or the governing board of a school district pursuant to Sections 60200 and 60400 shall ensure that the instructional material is available in both print and digital formats. (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.).