By: Campbell  S.B. No. 1567
         (In the Senate - Filed March 3, 2023; March 16, 2023, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 27, 2023,
  reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
  following vote:  Yeas 13, Nays 0; April 27, 2023, sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1567 By:  Parker
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to requiring public schools to maintain physical copies of
  certain instructional materials.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 31, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Section 31.107 to read as follows:
         Sec. 31.107.  REQUIRED PHYSICAL COPIES OF INSTRUCTIONAL
  MATERIALS. (a)  This section applies only to instructional
  materials provided in a physical medium.
         (b)  The board of trustees of each school district and the
  governing body of each open-enrollment charter school shall, for
  each instructional material selected by the district or school for
  a subject in the foundation or enrichment curriculum:
               (1)  make available at least one physical copy of the
  instructional material in each classroom in which the instructional
  material is used;
               (2)  provide to each teacher at a district or school who
  uses the instructional material in teaching a course a physical
  copy of the teacher version of the instructional material, if
  available; and
               (3)  maintain in the school library at each district or
  school campus at which the instructional material is used a number
  of physical copies of the instructional material at least equal to
  five percent of the total number of students in the grade level in
  which the instructional material is used.
         SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024
  school year.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
 
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