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2018 SESSION
SB 785 Electronic textbooks; prohibits local school boards from requiring use in any course in grades 6-12.
Introduced by: Scott A. Surovell | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Access to electronic textbooks and adequate connectivity. Prohibits local school boards from requiring the use of any electronic textbook in any course in grades six through 12 unless the school board adopts a plan to ensure that on or before July 1, 2020, (i) each student enrolled in such course will have actual access at school and, if any assignment requires the use of such electronic textbook outside of school hours, in his residence to at least one personal computing device not shared with another student that contains an operating system and the hardware necessary to support the format of each electronic textbook expected to be used in such course and (ii) the relevant school has adequate connectivity, which the bill defines as bandwidth of at least one megabit per second per enrolled student.
FULL TEXT
- 01/10/18 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 18103352D pdf | impact statement
- 02/01/18 Senate: Committee substitute printed 18106300D-S1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/10/18 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 18103352D
- 01/10/18 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/24/18 Senate: Assigned Education sub: Public Education
- 02/01/18 Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/18 Senate: Committee substitute printed 18106300D-S1
- 02/02/18 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/18 Senate: Read second time
- 02/05/18 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/05/18 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 18106300D-S1
- 02/05/18 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB785S1
- 02/06/18 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/18 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/08/18 House: Read first time
- 02/08/18 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 02/20/18 House: Assigned Education sub: Subcommittee #3
- 02/26/18 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (8-Y 0-N)
- 02/28/18 House: Reported from Education with amendment (13-Y 9-N)
- 02/28/18 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 03/01/18 House: Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education
- 03/02/18 House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N)
- 03/06/18 House: Left in Appropriations