Digest: Existing law requires publishers and manufacturers of printed instructional material for use at public postsecondary educational institutions to provide the material, upon request, in an electronic format that is compatible with commonly used ... »More
Digest: Existing law requires publishers and manufacturers of printed instructional material for use at public postsecondary educational institutions to provide the material, upon request, in an electronic format that is compatible with commonly used braille translation and speech synthesis software, when those materials are to be used by a student whose disability prevents him or her from using standard instructional materials and other requirements are met. Existing law also requires publishers and manufacturers to provide computer files or other electronic versions of nonprinted instructional materials, defined to include materials that require the availability of electronic equipment in order to be utilized, when technology is available to convert those nonprinted materials to a format that is compatible with braille translation or speech synthesis software. This bill would requirepublishers, as defined, to provide a captioned format of instructional materials, as defined, or an electronic format of those materials and a license to create a captioned format of the materials, upon request by a public postsecondary educational institution, and would authorize the public postsecondary educational institution to create a captioned format, subject to prescribed conditions, if the publisher provides a license to create the captioned format or fails to respond to a request for a captioned format. The bill would prescribe various requirements with respect to use and distribution of captioned formats of instructional materials by public postsecondary educational institutions that choose to participate in the request process. The bill would also make conforming changes. »Less
Public postsecondary education: instructional materials: disabled students.
An act to amend Section 67302 of, and to add Section 67302.5 to, the Education Code, relating to postsecondary education.
Digest: Existing law requires publishers and manufacturers of printed instructional material for use at public postsecondary educational institutions to provide the material, upon request, in an electronic format that is compatible with commonly used ... »More
Digest: Existing law requires publishers and manufacturers of printed instructional material for use at public postsecondary educational institutions to provide the material, upon request, in an electronic format that is compatible with commonly used braille translation and speech synthesis software, when those materials are to be used by a student whose disability prevents him or her from using standard instructional materials and other requirements are met. Existing law also requires publishers and manufacturers to provide computer files or other electronic versions of nonprinted instructional materials, defined to include materials that require the availability of electronic equipment in order to be utilized, when technology is available to convert those nonprinted materials to a format that is compatible with braille translation or speech synthesis software. This bill would requirepublishers, as defined, to provide a captioned format of instructional materials, as defined, or an electronic format of those materials and a license to create a captioned format of the materials, upon request by a public postsecondary educational institution, and would authorize the public postsecondary educational institution to create a captioned format, subject to prescribed conditions, if the publisher provides a license to create the captioned format or fails to respond to a request for a captioned format. The bill would prescribe various requirements with respect to use and distribution of captioned formats of instructional materials by public postsecondary educational institutions that choose to participate in the request process. The bill would also make conforming changes. »Less
Public postsecondary education: instructional materials: disabled students.
An act to amend Section 67302 of, and to add Section 67302.5 to, the Education Code, relating to postsecondary education.
Digest: Existing law requires publishers and manufacturers of printed instructional material for use at public postsecondary educational institutions to provide the material, upon request, in an electronic format that is compatible with commonly used ... »More
Digest: Existing law requires publishers and manufacturers of printed instructional material for use at public postsecondary educational institutions to provide the material, upon request, in an electronic format that is compatible with commonly used braille translation and speech synthesis software, when those materials are to be used by a student whose disability prevents him or her from using standard instructional materials and other requirements are met. Existing law also requires publishers and manufacturers to provide computer files or other electronic versions of nonprinted instructional materials, defined to include materials that require the availability of electronic equipment in order to be utilized, when technology is available to convert those nonprinted materials to a format that is compatible with braille translation or speech synthesis software. This bill would requirepublishers, as defined, to provide a captioned format of instructional materials, as defined, or an electronic format of those materials and a license to create a captioned format of the materials, upon request by a public postsecondary educational institution, and would authorize the public postsecondary educational institution to create a captioned format, subject to prescribed conditions, if the publisher provides a license to create the captioned format or fails to respond to a request for a captioned format. The bill would prescribe various requirements with respect to use and distribution of captioned formats of instructional materials by public postsecondary educational institutions that choose to participate in the request process. The bill would also make conforming changes. »Less
Public postsecondary education: instructional materials: disabled students.
An act to amend Section 67302 of, and to add Section 67302.5 to, the Education Code, relating to postsecondary education.
Digest: Existing law requires publishers and manufacturers of printed instructional material for use at public postsecondary educational institutions to provide the material, upon request, in an electronic format that is compatible with commonly used ... »More
Digest: Existing law requires publishers and manufacturers of printed instructional material for use at public postsecondary educational institutions to provide the material, upon request, in an electronic format that is compatible with commonly used braille translation and speech synthesis software, when those materials are to be used by a student whose disability prevents him or her from using standard instructional materials and other requirements are met. Existing law also requires publishers and manufacturers to provide computer files or other electronic versions of nonprinted instructional materials, defined to include materials that require the availability of electronic equipment in order to be utilized, when technology is available to convert those nonprinted materials to a format that is compatible with braille translation or speech synthesis software. This bill would require publishers, as defined, to provide a captioned format of instructional materials, as defined, or an electronic format of those materials and a license to create a captioned format of the materials, upon request by a public postsecondary educational institution, and would authorize the public postsecondary educational institution to create a captioned format, subject to prescribed conditions, if the publisher provides a license to create the captioned format or fails to respond to a request for a captioned format. The bill would prescribe various requirements with respect to use and distribution of captioned formats of instructional materials by public postsecondary educational institutions that choose to participate in the request process . The bill would also make conforming changes. »Less
Public postsecondary education: instructional materials: disabled students.
An act to amend Section 67302 of, and to add Section 67302.5 to, the Education Code, relating to postsecondary education.
Digest: Existing law requires publishers and manufacturers of printed instructional material for use at public postsecondary educational institutions to provide the material, upon request, in an electronic format that is compatible with commonly used ... »More
Digest: Existing law requires publishers and manufacturers of printed instructional material for use at public postsecondary educational institutions to provide the material, upon request, in an electronic format that is compatible with commonly used braille translation and speech synthesis software, when those materials are to be used by a student whose disability prevents him or her from using standard instructional materials and other requirements are met. Existing law also requires publishers and manufacturers to provide computer files or other electronic versions of nonprinted instructional materials, defined to include materials that require the availability of electronic equipment in order to be utilized, when technology is available to convert those nonprinted materials to a format that is compatible with braille translation or speech synthesis software. The bill wouldadditionally require publishers, as defined, to provide a captioned format of instructional materials, as defined, or an electronic format of those materials and a license to create a captioned format of the materials, upon request by a public postsecondary educational institution, and would authorize the public postsecondary educational institution to create a captioned format, subject to prescribed conditions, if the publisher provides a license to create the captioned format or fails to respond to a request for a captioned format. The bill would prescribe various requirements with respect to a public postsecondary educational institutions use and distribution of captioned formats of instructional materials. The bill would also make conforming changes. »Less
Location: Senate Floor SenateFloor
July 7, 2009
From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 1).
Public postsecondary education: instructional materials: disabled students.
An act to amend Section 67302 of , and to add Section 67302.5 to, the Education Code, relating to postsecondary education.
Digest: Existing law requires publishers and manufacturers of printed instructional material for use at public postsecondary educational institutions to provide the material, upon request, in an electronic format that is compatible with commonly used ... »More
Digest: Existing law requires publishers and manufacturers of printed instructional material for use at public postsecondary educational institutions to provide the material, upon request, in an electronic format that is compatible with commonly used braille translation and speech synthesis software, when those materials are to be used by a student whose disability prevents him or her from using standard instructional materials and other requirements are met. Existing law also requires publishers and manufacturers to provide computer files or other electronic versions of nonprinted instructional materials,defined to include materials that require the availability of electronic equipment in order to be utilized, when technology is available to convert those nonprinted materials to a format that is compatible with braille translation or speech synthesis software. The bill would additionally require publishers , as defined, to provide a captioned format of instructional materials , as defined, or an electronic format of those materials and a license to create a captioned format of the materials , upon request by a public postsecondary educational institution, and would authorize the public postsecondary educational institution tocreate a captioned format , subject to prescribed conditions, if the publisher provides a license to create the captioned format or fails to respond to a request for a captioned format . The bill would prescribe various requirements with respect to a public postsecondary educational institutions use and distribution of captioned formats of instructional materials. The bill would also make conforming changes. »Less
June 15, 2009
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Public postsecondary education: instructional materials: disabled students.
An act to amend Section 67302 of the Education Code, relating to postsecondary education.
Digest: (1) Existing law requires publishers and manufacturers of printed instructional material for use at public postsecondary educational institutions to provide the material, upon request, in an electronic format that is compatible with commonly used ... »More
Digest: (1) Existing law requires publishers and manufacturers of printed instructional material for use at public postsecondary educational institutions to provide the material, upon request, in an electronic format that is compatible with commonly used braille translation and speech synthesis software, when those materials are to be used by a student whose disability prevents him or her from using standard instructional materials and other requirements are met. Existing law also requires publishers and manufacturers to provide computer files or other electronic versions of nonprinted instructional materials, defined to include materials that require the availability of electronic equipment in order to be utilized, when technology is available to convert those nonprinted materials to a format that is compatible with braille translation or speech synthesis software. This bill would expand the definition of nonprinted instructional materials to include audiovisual works and digital media files, including podcasts and Web clips. This bill would define podcasts as an audio or video program in digital format delivered over the Internet for playback on a computer or portable digital device. This bill would require that the electronic versions of nonprinted instructional materials be compatible with audiovisual captioning software for the deaf, in addition to braille translation and speech synthesis software for the blind. The bill would additionally require publishers and manufacturers to provide a captioned copy of nonprinted instructional materials, upon request by a public postsecondary educational institution, and would authorize the public postsecondary educational institution to create a captioned copy, subject to prescribed conditions, if thepublisher or manufacturer fails to provide the captioned copy. (2) Existing law states that these provisions do not prohibit a postsecondary educational institution from assisting a disabled student by using the electronic version of printed instructional material provided pursuant to these provisions to transcribe the printed materials into braille. This bill, in addition, would state that these provisions do not prohibit a postsecondary educational institution from assisting a disabled student by using the electronic version of printed and nonprinted instructional material to transcribe the materials into braille or captioning. »Less
April 22, 2009
From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 21).
Public postsecondary education: instructional materials: disabled students.
An act to amend Section 67302 of the Education Code, relating to postsecondary education.
Digest: (1) Existing law requires publishers and manufacturers of printed instructional material for use at public postsecondary educational institutions to provide the material, upon request, in an electronic format that is compatible with commonly used ... »More
Digest: (1) Existing law requires publishers and manufacturers of printed instructional material for use at public postsecondary educational institutions to provide the material, upon request, in an electronic format that is compatible with commonly used braille translation and speech synthesis software, when those materials are to be used by a student whose disability prevents him or her from using standard instructional materials and other requirements are met. Existing law also requires publishers and manufacturers to provide computer files or other electronic versions of nonprinted instructional materials, defined to include materials that require the availability of electronic equipment inorder to be utilized, when technology is available to convert those nonprinted materials to a format that is compatible with braille translation or speech synthesis software. This bill would expand the definition of nonprinted instructional materials to include audiovisual works and digital media files , including podcasts and Web clips. This bill would define podcasts as an audio or video program in digital format delivered over the Internet for playback on a computer or portable digital device. This bill would require that the electronic versions of nonprinted instructional materials be compatible with audiovisual captioningsoftware for the deaf, in addition to braille translation and speech synthesis software for the blind. The bill would additionally require publishers and manufacturers to provide a captioned copy of nonprinted instructional materials, upon request by a public postsecondary educational institution, and would authorize the public postsecondary educational institution to create a captioned copy, subject to prescribed conditions, if the publisher or manufacturer fails to provide the captioned copy. (2) Existing law states that these provisions do not prohibit a postsecondary educational institution from assisting a disabled student by using the electronic version of printed instructional material provided pursuant to these provisions to transcribe the printed materials into braille. This bill, in addition, would state that these provisions do not prohibit a postsecondary educational institution from assisting a disabled student by using the electronic version of printed and nonprinted instructional material to transcribe the materials into braille or captioning. »Less
Postsecondary education: instructional materials: disabled students.
An act to amend Section 67302 of the Education Code, relating to postsecondary education.
Digest: (1) Existing law requires publishers and manufacturers of printed instructional material for use at public postsecondary institutions to provide the material, upon request, in an electronic format that is compatible with commonly used braille ... »More
Digest: (1) Existing law requires publishers and manufacturers of printed instructional material for use at public postsecondary institutions to provide the material, upon request, in an electronic format that is compatible with commonly used braille translation and speech synthesis software, when those materials are to be used by a student whose disability prevents him or her from using standard instructional materials and other requirements are met. Existing law also requires publishers and manufacturers to provide electronic versions of nonprinted instructional materials, defined to include materials that require the availability of electronic equipment in order to be utilized, when technology is available to convert those nonprinted materials to a format that is compatible with braille translation or speech synthesis software. This bill would expand thedefinition of nonprinted instructional materials to include audiovisual works, podcasts, and Web clips. This bill would define podcasts as an audio or video program in digital format delivered over the Internet for playback on a computer or portable digital device. This bill would require that the electronic versions of nonprinted instructional materials be compatible with audiovisual captioning software for the deaf, in addition to braille translation and speech synthesis software for the blind. (2) Existing law states that these provisions do not prohibit a postsecondary educational institution from assisting a disabled student by using the electronic version of printed instructional material provided pursuant to these provisions to transcribe the printed materials into braille. This bill, in addition, would state that these provisions do not prohibit apostsecondary educational institution from assisting a disabled student by using the electronic version of printed and nonprinted instructional material to transcribe the materials into braille or captioning. »Less
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