if the requisite number of requests for the specified instructional materials and content are received within any 365 day period. Instructional materials and content so added to the approved list may be added within 30 days following the receipt by the state board of the requisite number of requests. No designation may be included upon the approved list which indicates the manner in which any instructional materials and content were added to the list. Other than the selection method, publishers whose instructional materials and content are added to the approved list as provided in this subsection shall be required to comply with the same rules regarding instructional materials and content as other publishers, including but not limited to price, durability, accessibility, and availability.
(Ga. L. 1937, p. 896, § 2; Ga. L. 1995, p. 1017, § 1; Ga. L. 2015, p. 1031, § 2-2/SB 89; Ga. L. 2016, p. 605, § 1/HB 739.)
The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, substituted "instructional materials and content" for "textbooks" in subsections (a), (b), and in the undesignated paragraph of subsection (b), substituted "instructional materials and content" for "textbook" in subsection (b), paragraph (b)(2), and in the undesignated paragraph of subsection (b), substituted "instructional materials and content" for "textbook or series of textbooks" in subsection (b), substituted "Instructional materials and content" for "A textbook" in the undesignated paragraph of subsection (b), substituted "instructional materials and content were" for "textbook was" in the undesignated paragraph of subsection (b), and inserted "accessibility," at the end of the undesignated paragraph of subsection (b).
The 2016 amendment, effective July 1, 2016, substituted "may" for "shall" throughout paragraph (a)(1) and in the first, second, and third sentences of subsection (b); designated the existing provisions of subsection (a) as paragraph (a)(1); deleted ", not exceeding five in each instance" following "advisable" at the end of the second sentence of paragraph (a)(1); added paragraph (a)(2); and deleted "required to be" preceding "added to the approved" in the second sentence of the undesignated ending paragraph of subsection (b).
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERALState Board of Education may require lay advisory group's approval as to textbooks the board selects, provided that in so doing the board continues to exercise the board's own independent judgment and responsibility in making the final decisions concerning textbook selection and does not in fact attempt to delegate the board's decision-making powers to such advisory only committees. 1977 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 77-13.
Authority of committee that of advisor.- Committee appointed by the State Board of Education has no authority other than that of being an advisor to the board. 1973 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 73-79.
Board not prohibited from listening to interested parties other than professional educators.- Legislative requirement that the State Board of Education appoint one or more advisory committees composed of educators cannot properly be construed as a prohibition against the board's listening to anyone else on the matter, or as to the board's discretionary power to appoint advisory committees of interested parties other than professional educators. 1977 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 77-13.
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 68 Am. Jur. 2d, Schools, § 353.
C.J.S.- 78A C.J.S., Schools and School Districts, § 1079.