SB135: Public schools; school divisions shall not be required to purchase new textbooks until 2011-2012.

SB135

SENATE BILL NO. 135 Offered January 13, 2010 Prefiled January 11, 2010 A BILL to delay implementation of the textbook adoption cycle. ---------- Patron-- Obenshain ---------- Referred to Committee on Education and Health ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. That notwithstanding the textbook adoption cycle developed by the Department of Education, local school divisions shall not be required to purchase new textbooks until the 2011-2012 school year.

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