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Senate Bill No. 635
(By Senators Plymale and Edgell)
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[Introduced February 11, 2008; referred to the Committee on
Education; and then to the Committee on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact §18-2A-2 of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to textbooks, instructional
materials and learning technologies; and authorizing the state
board to set and collect review fees from publishers
participating in the state instructional materials adoption
procedures.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §18-2A-2 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2A. ADOPTION OF TEXTBOOKS, INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND
LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES.
§18-2A-2. Request for samples and bids; deposit by bidder;
selection, approval and publication of multiple
list.
(a) Prior to each adoption year, and not later than the first day of August, the state board by written request or otherwise
shall ask the various vendors of textbooks, instructional
materials, learning technologies or any combination thereof to
submit samples and prices on items deemed considered appropriate by
the state board of education to teach the curriculum in the public
elementary and secondary schools of the state for the current
adoption period.
(b) All bids or proposals shall be under seal, and each bidder
shall deposit in the State Treasury such sum of money as the state
board may designate such the deposit to be not less than
shall be
at least
one thousand dollars, and not more than three thousand
dollars. and such Additionally, the deposit shall be forfeited to
the general school fund if such the bidder shall fail or refuse
fails or refuses
to make and execute such the contract and bond as
are herein required
by this article
in case of acceptance of all or
part of the vendor's bid. and Otherwise, the deposit shall be
returned to such the bidder after the contract has been made. The
state board of education reserves the right to set the sum of money
a vendor is required to deposit in the State Treasury upon
submitting a bid:
Provided, That the vendor has a previous history
of failure or refusal to execute contracts or bonds with the State
of West Virginia.
(c) All bids shall be opened by the state board in public
session. After considering the subject matter, product quality, general suitableness, and prices of items submitted, the board
shall, prior to the first day of March of each year in which
adoptions are made by the state, board of education establish a
committee of teachers and other educational specialists. and With
the aid of said the committee,
the state board
shall on or before
the first day of December, prior to county adoptions, select,
approve and publish a list of items in each subject and grade in
the elementary and secondary subjects required to be taught by said
the state board. The committee of teachers and other educational
specialists shall report their recommendations to the state board
on or before the fifteenth day of November of the year preceding
the adoption by the county board.
(d)
The state board is authorized to set and collect review
fees from publishers participating in the state instructional
materials adoption procedures.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the state board
to set and collect review fees from publishers participating in the
state instructional materials adoption procedures.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.
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