PRINTER'S NO. 3552
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
2432
Session of
2018
INTRODUCED BY QUIGLEY, JAMES, PICKETT, FREEMAN, O'NEILL,
MILLARD, RYAN, BERNSTINE AND HILL-EVANS, MAY 22, 2018
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, MAY 22, 2018
AN ACT
Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An
act relating to the public school system, including certain
provisions applicable as well to private and parochial
schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the
laws relating thereto," in books, furniture and supplies,
further providing for time and manner of adopting and
furnishing textbooks and supplementary books.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 803 of the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30,
No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, is amended to
read:
Section 803. Time and Manner of Adopting and Furnishing
Textbooks and Supplementary Books.--All school textbooks, in
school districts of the second, third and fourth class, shall be
adopted by the board of school directors at any regular meeting
[between the first day of April and the first day of August
following]. Such books, so adopted, shall be provided for the
use of the schools at the beginning of the school terms next
following. If in said school districts there shall be a district
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superintendent, such district superintendent shall report in
which subjects new textbooks are needed, and after consultation
with the teachers under his supervision, what textbooks should
be adopted or changed. No adoption or change of textbooks shall
be made without his recommendation, except by a two-thirds vote
of the board. Books, supplementary to textbooks regularly
adopted, may be adopted and purchased for use in the schools at
any time. Such supplementary books shall be adopted in the same
manner as textbooks are herein required to be adopted.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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