By: Patrick S.B. No. 391
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the provision of electronic sample copies of a textbook
adopted by the State Board of Education.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 31.022, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (d-1) to read as follows:
(d-1) A notice published under Subsection (d) must state
that a publisher of an adopted textbook for a grade level other than
prekindergarten must submit an electronic sample copy of the
textbook as required by Sections 31.027(a) and (b) and may not
submit a print sample copy.
SECTION 2. Subsections (a) and (b), Section 31.027,
Education Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) A publisher shall provide each school district and
open-enrollment charter school with information that fully
describes each of the publisher's adopted textbooks. On request of
a school district, a publisher shall provide an electronic [a]
sample copy of an adopted textbook.
(b) A publisher shall provide at least two electronic sample
copies of each adopted textbook to be maintained at each regional
education service center.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.