California Senate Bill SB682 Amended / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: SB 682AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 2, 2013 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:  electronic copies   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  an electronic copy   a digital version  of an adopted instructional material to a pupil that may be downloaded onto  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  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, 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.  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  an electronic copy   a digital version  of an adopted instructional material to a pupil that may be downloaded onto  the pupil's personal electronic tablet or other   an  electronic device.  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.   (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.