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House Bill 188 |
House Author: Hochberg et al. |
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Effective: 6-16-07 |
Senate Sponsor: Van de Putte |
House Bill 188 amends the Education Code to require the State Board of Education to adopt rules, including specific requirements for textbook publishers, for the midcycle review and adoption of textbooks for a subject for which textbooks are not under current review. It also requires the board, in determining the six-year textbook review and adoption cycle, to consult with the Legislative Budget Board and the governor's office of budget, planning, and policy before approving and publishing any notice or amendment of the cycle; consider certain historic data for past textbook purchases and cost projections for future purchases, projected student enrollments, scheduled curriculum revisions, and the budgetary impact of adopting textbooks in a subject area; and limit the cycle to subject areas for which textbooks can be purchased with expected state textbook funding levels for the school year in which they are to be adopted.
Other bill provisions allow the board to adopt a supplemental textbook not on the conforming or nonconforming list provided the textbook meets certain content requirements and other generally applicable criteria and is not to be used as the sole textbook for the course, make a supplemental textbook subject to all review and adoption cycle provisions, and establish conditions for a district or charter school to purchase supplemental textbooks.
The bill also entitles a school district or open-enrollment charter school to receive credit for textbooks purchased at a cost below the cost limit for that textbook in an amount equal to the difference between the price paid and the cost limit, with the total textbook credit allocated equally between the state textbook fund and credits applicable to district or school requisition of additional textbooks or electronic textbooks.