| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to instructional materials for K-12 public |
| 3 | education; amending s. 1006.28, F.S.; including electronic |
| 4 | textbooks in the definition of the term "adequate |
| 5 | instructional materials"; requiring each district school |
| 6 | board to provide technology as needed for its educational |
| 7 | program; amending s. 1006.40, F.S.; authorizing the use of |
| 8 | certain funds for the purchase of electronic textbooks by |
| 9 | district school boards; providing for the purchase of |
| 10 | electronic or computer hardware under certain conditions; |
| 11 | providing an effective date. |
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| 13 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 15 | Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 1006.28, Florida |
| 16 | Statutes, is amended to read: |
| 17 | 1006.28 Duties of district school board, district school |
| 18 | superintendent; and school principal regarding K-12 |
| 19 | instructional materials.- |
| 20 | (1) DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD.-The district school board has |
| 21 | the duty to provide adequate instructional materials for all |
| 22 | students in accordance with the requirements of this part. The |
| 23 | term "adequate instructional materials" means a sufficient |
| 24 | number of textbooks or sets of materials that are available in |
| 25 | bound, unbound, kit, or package form and may consist of hard- |
| 26 | backed, or soft-backed, or electronic textbooks, consumables, |
| 27 | learning laboratories, manipulatives, electronic media, and |
| 28 | computer courseware or software that serve as the basis for |
| 29 | instruction for each student in the core courses of mathematics, |
| 30 | language arts, social studies, science, reading, and literature, |
| 31 | except for instruction for which the school advisory council |
| 32 | approves the use of a program that does not include a textbook |
| 33 | as a major tool of instruction. The district school board has |
| 34 | the following specific duties: |
| 35 | (a) Courses of study; adoption.-Adopt courses of study for |
| 36 | use in the schools of the district. |
| 37 | (b) Textbooks.-Provide for proper requisitioning, |
| 38 | distribution, accounting, storage, care, and use of all |
| 39 | instructional materials furnished by the state and furnish such |
| 40 | other instructional materials as may be needed. The district |
| 41 | school board shall assure that instructional materials used in |
| 42 | the district are consistent with the district goals and |
| 43 | objectives and the curriculum frameworks adopted by rule of the |
| 44 | State Board of Education, as well as with the state and district |
| 45 | performance standards provided for in s. 1001.03(1). |
| 46 | (c) Other instructional materials.-Provide such other |
| 47 | technology and teaching accessories and aids as are needed for |
| 48 | the school district's educational program. |
| 49 | (d) School library media services; establishment and |
| 50 | maintenance.-Establish and maintain a program of school library |
| 51 | media services for all public schools in the district, including |
| 52 | school library media centers, or school library media centers |
| 53 | open to the public, and, in addition such traveling or |
| 54 | circulating libraries as may be needed for the proper operation |
| 55 | of the district school system. |
| 56 | Section 2. Subsection (4) of section 1006.40, Florida |
| 57 | Statutes, is amended to read: |
| 58 | 1006.40 Use of instructional materials allocation; |
| 59 | instructional materials, library books, and reference books; |
| 60 | repair of books.- |
| 61 | (4) The funds described in subsection (3) which district |
| 62 | school boards may use to purchase materials not on the state- |
| 63 | adopted list shall be used for the purchase of instructional |
| 64 | materials or other items having intellectual content which |
| 65 | assist in the instruction of a subject or course. These items |
| 66 | may be available in bound, unbound, kit, or package form and may |
| 67 | consist of hardbacked, or softbacked, or electronic textbooks, |
| 68 | replacements for items which were part of previously purchased |
| 69 | instructional materials, consumables, learning laboratories, |
| 70 | manipulatives, electronic media, computer courseware or |
| 71 | software, and other commonly accepted instructional tools as |
| 72 | prescribed by district school board rule. Beginning with the |
| 73 | 2012-2013 fiscal year, the funds available to district school |
| 74 | boards for the purchase of materials not on the state-adopted |
| 75 | list may not be used to purchase electronic or computer hardware |
| 76 | unless even if such hardware is provided for the sole purpose of |
| 77 | delivering instructional materials content in an electronic |
| 78 | format. The funds provided for instructional materials bundled |
| 79 | with software or other electronic media, nor may not such funds |
| 80 | be used to purchase equipment or supplies. However, when |
| 81 | authorized to do so in the General Appropriations Act, a school |
| 82 | or district school board may use a portion of the funds |
| 83 | available to it for the purchase of materials not on the state- |
| 84 | adopted list to purchase science laboratory materials and |
| 85 | supplies. |
| 86 | Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010. |