156.476 Textbooks for children with impaired vision -- Requirement that publisher of adopted textbook furnish American Printing House for the Blind with text in electronic format. - Kentucky Statutes

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156.476 Textbooks for children with impaired vision -- Requirement that publisher of adopted textbook furnish American Printing House for the Blind with text
in electronic format. (1) The Kentucky Board of Education, upon the recommendation of the chief state school officer, shall select suitable textbooks and programs in an appropriate
format, which include braille textbooks, and other materials available in clear type
of eighteen (18) to twenty-four (24) points in the different subject areas for children
with impaired vision who are attending the public schools of the Commonwealth of
Kentucky in grades kindergarten through twelve (12). These books and materials
shall not be subject to the official bids, filing fees, sampling, and the stipulated list
prices, lowest wholesale prices, and the standards and specifications required for the
books and materials approved and listed by the State Textbook Commission for
regular use by the pupils attending the public schools of the State of Kentucky. The
Kentucky Board of Education, upon the recommendation of the chief state school
officer, may promulgate an administrative regulation determining the pupils eligible
for the books and materials, the number of books and types of materials to be
purchased, and the general administration of the program. The chief state school
officer, subject to the approval of the Kentucky Board of Education, may purchase
these books and materials and distribute them without cost to the pupils with
impaired vision attending the public schools of the state. All books and programs
purchased under this section for the pupils with impaired vision are the property of
the state. (2) The Department of Education shall require any publisher of a textbook or program adopted for use in the public schools of the Commonwealth to furnish the American
Printing House for the Blind with computer diskettes or tapes of those print
materials either in the American Standard Code for Information Interchange,
(ASCII), or in any other format, either electronic or print, which can be readily
translated into braille or large print. Effective: July 14, 2000
History: Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 419, sec. 13, effective July 14, 2000. -- Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 362, sec. 6, effective July 15, 1996.. -- Amended 1992 Ky. Acts
ch. 382, sec. 4, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 476, Pt. IV,
sec. 165, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 463, sec. 1, effective
July 15, 1986. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 9, sec. 7, effective July 15, 1982. --
Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 155, sec. 82, effective June 17, 1978. -- Amended 1974
Ky. Acts ch. 71, sec. 13, effective March 13, 1974. -- Created 1960 Ky. Acts ch. 99,
sec. 3.