Senate File 2058 - Introduced SENATE FILE 2058 BY HANCOCK A BILL FOR An Act relating to textbooks and laptop computers or other 1 personal portable computing devices adopted for use by 2 school districts and provided to public and accredited 3 nonpublic school students. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 5 TLSB 5377XS (3) 83 kh/nh

S.F. 2058 Section 1. Section 301.1, subsection 3, Code 2009, is 1 amended to read as follows: 2 3. As used in subsection 2, “textbooks” means books any of 3 the following: 4 a. Books and loose-leaf or bound manuals, systems of 5 reusable instructional materials or combinations of books and 6 supplementary instructional materials which convey information 7 to the student or otherwise contribute to the learning process , 8 or electronic . 9 b. Electronic textbooks, including but not limited to 10 computer software, applications using computer-assisted 11 instruction, interactive videodisc, and other computer 12 courseware and magnetic media. 13 c. Laptop computers or other portable personal computing 14 devices which are used for nonreligious instructional use only. 15 EXPLANATION 16 This bill relates to the use of state funds allocated to 17 school districts for purposes of making textbooks available to 18 accredited nonpublic school pupils by expanding the definition 19 of textbooks to include laptop computers or other portable 20 personal computing devices which are used for nonreligous 21 instructional use only. Currently, the definition is limited 22 to books, supplementary instructional materials, and electronic 23 textbooks, including but not limited to computer software. 24 -1- LSB 5377XS (3) 83 kh/nh 1/ 1