By: Patrick S.B. No. 391

(In the Senate - Filed January 21, 2011; February 2, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Education; March 7, 2011, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; March 7, 2011, sent to printer.)

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 391 By: West

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.

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