Georgia Senate - 1995/1996 Sessions

SB 12 - School Textbooks - methods of approving

Page Numbers - 1

Code Sections - 20-2-1012

1. Newbill  56th          2. Clay  37th              3. Gochenour  27th


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SB 12 95                                          LC 23 0176

      SENATE BILL 12

      By:  Senators Newbill of the 56th, Clay of the 37th, Gochenour
           of the 27th and others

                        A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                               AN ACT


  1- 1  To amend Article 19 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official
  1- 2  Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to textbooks, so as to
  1- 3  provide for additional methods of approving textbooks; to
  1- 4  provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and
  1- 5  for other purposes.

  1- 6       BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

                         SECTION 1.

  1- 7  Article 19 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the Official Code of
  1- 8  Georgia Annotated, relating to textbooks, is amended by
  1- 9  striking Code Section 20-2-1012, relating to committee or
  1-10  committees to make recommendation on textbooks, and
  1-11  inserting in its place a new Code Section 20-2-1012 to read
  1-12  as follows:

  1-13    "20-2-1012. (Index)

  1-14    (a) The State Board of Education shall select a committee
  1-15    or committees of educators actually engaged in public
  1-16    school work in this state to examine textbooks and make
  1-17    recommendations thereon to the state board.  Such
  1-18    committee or committees shall consist of such number of
  1-19    educators as the state board may deem advisable, not
  1-20    exceeding five in each instance. They shall serve for such
  1-21    time and for such duties as the state board may prescribe
  1-22    and shall receive such compensation as may be fixed by the
  1-23    state board.

  1-24    (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of
  1-25    this Code section, the state board textbook selection
  1-26    committee shall recommend to the state board any textbook
  1-27    which has been requested by not less than five local
  1-28    school systems through the superintendent or school board
  1-29    of such local school system."

                         SECTION 2.

  1-30  All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are
  1-31  repealed.

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