FORTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE
HB 708/a

FIRST SESSION, 2003





March 14, 2003



Madam President:



Your EDUCATION COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred



HOUSE BILL 708, as amended



has had it under consideration and reports same with recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:



1. Strike House Appropriations and Finance Committee Amendments 6 through 8.



2. On pages 3 through 10, strike Section 2 and insert in lieu thereof:



"Section 2. A new section of the Public School Code is enacted to read:



"[NEW MATERIAL] DISTANCE LEARNING AND COMPUTER-BASED COURSES.--

Public schools that offer distance learning and computer-based courses of study shall provide accompanying electronic formats that are usable by a person with a disability using assistive technology, and those formats shall be based on the American standard code for information interchange, hypertext markup language and extensible markup language.".







Respectfully submitted,







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Cynthia Nava, Chairman







Adopted_______________________ Not Adopted_______________________

(Chief Clerk) (Chief Clerk)





Date ________________________





The roll call vote was 5 For 0 Against

Yes: 5

No: 0

Excused: Boitano, Cravens, Garcia, Sanchez, B.

Absent: None





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