CALIFORNIA AB 2600
Chapter 927
BILL NUMBER: AB 2600 CHAPTERED 09/28/94 CHAPTER 927 FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE SEPTEMBER 28, 1994 APPROVED BY GOVERNOR SEPTEMBER 27, 1994 PASSED THE ASSEMBLY AUGUST 30, 1994 PASSED THE SENATE AUGUST 27, 1994 AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 26, 1994 AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 19, 1994 AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 9, 1994 AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 13, 1994 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JUNE 1, 1994 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 14, 1994 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Bustamante (Principal coauthor: Senator Johnston) (Coauthors: Assembly Members Aguiar, Baca, Bronshvag, Valerie Brown, Conroy, Costa, Eastin, Escutia, Gotch, Hauser, Lee, Margolin, Martinez, McDonald, Murray, Napolitano, Polanco, Snyder, and Solis) (Coauthors: Senators Dills, Peace, Torres, Watson, and Wyman) JANUARY 27, 1994 An act to add Article 9 (commencing with Section 60117) to Chapter 1 of Part 33 of, and to add Section 60252 to, the Education Code, relating to instructional materials, and making an appropriation thereforLEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2600, Bustamante. Public schools: instructional materials.
Under existing law, the State Board of Education is required to adopt basic instructional materials for use in kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, consistent with the adopted curriculum framework of the State Board of Education. The governing board of each school district maintaining one or more high schools is required to adopt textbooks for use in high schools and the State Board of Education is required to designate the kinds of books that are to be classified as textbooks for high schools. Existing law creates the State Instructional Materials Fund to provide for the annual funding for the acquisition of instructional materials.
This bill would establish the Pupil Textbook and Instructional Materials Incentive Program. Commencing with the 1994-95 fiscal year that program , as a condition of eligibility for funding available for purposes of the program, would require the governing board of a school district to hold a public hearing or hearings, as specified, as to the sufficiency of textbooks or instructional materials for each pupil and to determine whether each school in the district has sufficient textbooks and instructional materials. This bill would require, if the governing board finds that there are insufficient textbooks or instructional materials, or both, governing boards of school districts to take any action, except an action that would require reimbursement by the Commission on State Mandates, to alleviate these insufficiencies within 2 years from the date that determination is made. In addition, the bill would specify that school districts that receive funds for instructional materials from any state source are subject to the requirements of the bill only in a...
