S.B. No. 391

AN ACT

relating to the provision of electronic samples 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 of the textbook as required by Sections 31.027(a) and (b) and may not submit a print sample copy.

SECTION 2. The heading to Section 31.027, Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 31.027. INFORMATION TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS; ELECTRONIC SAMPLE [COPIES].

SECTION 3. 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 an electronic [at least two] sample [copies] of each adopted textbook to be maintained at each regional education service center.

SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.

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President of the Senate Speaker of the House

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 391 passed the Senate on March 17, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 27, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

______________________________ Secretary of the Senate

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 391 passed the House, with amendment, on May 25, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, one present not voting.

______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House

Approved:

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Date

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Governor