March 14, 2003
Madam President:
Your EDUCATION COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
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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