HB469 Alabama 2015 Session

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

Relating to the purchase of school textbooks; to amend Sections 16-36-62, 16-36-64 and 16-36-65, Code of Alabama 1975; to add Sections 16-36-60.1 and 16-36-71 to the Code of Alabama 1975; to 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; to 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; to prohibit the price of any textbook to exceed the costs already prescribed by law; and to clarify that textbooks include digital textbooks for the purposes of public school textbook purchasing.