SF 2058 (LSB 5377XS (3) 83)

SENATE FILE 2058

BY  HANCOCK

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to textbooks and laptop computers or other personal portable computing devices adopted for use by school districts and provided to public and accredited nonpublic school students.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 301.1, subsection 3, Code 2009, is amended to read as follows:
   3.  As used in subsection 2, “textbooks” means books any of the following:
   a.  Books and loose-leaf or bound manuals, systems of reusable instructional materials or combinations of books and supplementary instructional materials which convey information to the student or otherwise contribute to the learning process, or electronic.
   b.  Electronic textbooks, including but not limited to computer software, applications using computer-assisted instruction, interactive videodisc, and other computer courseware and magnetic media.
   c.  Laptop computers or other portable personal computing devices which are used for nonreligious instructional use only.
EXPLANATION
   This bill relates to the use of state funds allocated to school districts for purposes of making textbooks available to accredited nonpublic school pupils by expanding the definition of textbooks to include laptop computers or other portable personal computing devices which are used for nonreligous instructional use only. Currently, the definition is limited to books, supplementary instructional materials, and electronic textbooks, including but not limited to computer software.