HB469 Alabama 2015 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Lynn Greer

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2015

Title

Textbooks, purchasing of by boards of education, use of qualified depository for textbooks established, Secs. 16-36-60.1, 16-36-71 added; Secs. 16-36-62, 16-36-64, 16-36-65 am'd.

Description

This act would establish qualified depositories for textbooks, which would be facilities that receive textbook orders from boards of education, store sufficient quantities of textbooks, and distribute textbooks to local school systems.

This bill would prohibit a qualified depository for textbooks from charging a board of education for its services, but would authorize it to charge a publisher a fee for its services.

The bill would provide that a publisher of textbooks is responsible for ensuring that a sufficient stock of textbooks is maintained at a qualified depository.

This bill would prohibit the price of any textbook sold through a qualified depository for textbooks from exceeding the costs already prescribed by law.

This bill would also clarify that textbooks include digital textbooks for the purposes of public school textbook purchasing.

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Subjects

Textbooks