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2015 SESSION
HB 2339 Electronic textbooks; access by students in their residence.
Introduced by: Scott A. Surovell | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Access to electronic textbooks and adequate connectivity. Prohibits school boards from making electronic textbooks available for use by students in their residence or residences unless the school board adopts a plan to ensure that by July 1, 2018, every student in the local school division will have access to (i) a personal computing device capable of supporting such textbooks and (ii) adequate connectivity, which the bill defines as bandwidth of at least 1 megabit per second per student. The bill permits a local school board to establish a pilot program for the use of electronic textbooks at any secondary school in the local school division provided that (a) each student at the secondary school has access to a personal computing device capable of supporting such textbooks, (b) each student at the secondary school has access to adequate connectivity, and (c) the secondary school is receiving federal funds pursuant to Title I of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 or no more than five percent of the students in the local school division or 300 children, whichever is greater, participate in the pilot program.
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HISTORY
- 01/23/15 House: Presented and ordered printed 15100765D
- 01/23/15 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/26/15 House: Assigned Education sub: Education Reform
- 02/03/15 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N)
- 02/03/15 House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/04/15 House: Reported from Education (16-Y 6-N)
- 02/04/15 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/04/15 House: Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education
- 02/05/15 House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
- 02/10/15 House: Left in Appropriations