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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.

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