Oklahoma HB 1982: Schools; contracts for school materials; electronic textbook and instructional materials; contracts between vendors and schools; damages; definitions; effective date; emergency.

Bill Text

HB1982 FULLPCS1 Trish Ranson-SW
2/17/2025 4:56:15 pm
AMEND TITLE TO CONFORM TO AMENDMENTS

Amendment submitted by: Trish Ranson
Adopted: _____________________________

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Reading Clerk

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
State of Oklahoma

SPEAKER:

CHAIR:

I move to amend HB1982
Of the printed Bill
Page Section Lines
Of the Engrossed Bill

By deleting the content of the entire measure, and by inserting in lieu
thereof the following language:
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STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)

PROPOSED OVERSIGHT
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
HOUSE BILL NO. 1982 By: Ranson

PROPOSED OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE

An Act relating to schools; amending 70 O.S. 2021,
Section 16-106, which relates to contracts for school
materials; requiring stipulation that electronic
textbook material will be ready for use; requiring
contracts between vendors and schools for certain
electronic materials to include certain provisions;
allowing contract termination and disqualification
for violations; clarifying violations are subject to
certain penalties and damages; stating definitions;
providing for codification; providing an effective
date; and declaring an emergency.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 70 O.S. 2021, Section 16-106, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 16-106. A. All contracts with publishers shall be
signed by the chairperson and secretary of the State Textbook
Committee on behalf of the state. Each contract shall stipulate the
price at which each textbook will be sold to the State of Oklahoma,
and that all copies supplied to the State of Oklahoma will be equal

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to or better than the official copy filed with the secretary of the
Committee. The State Textbook Committee may approve the
substitution of a later edition in lieu of the textbook originally
selected. The publisher shall stipulate in the contract that:
1. The price for which the textbook is to be furnished will be
the lowest at which the same textbook will be sold or offered for
sale for the purpose of securing a state or local selection or
adoption elsewhere in the United States during the six (6) months
prior to the date of the execution of the contract;
2. It will reduce the contract price of the textbook, if the
price of the same textbook is reduced below such contract price
elsewhere in the United States, and that it will file with the
secretary of the Committee a sworn statement of such reduction made
elsewhere;
3. If it prepares any supplementary or abridged or special
editions of any of the textbooks, and shall sell such editions
elsewhere at a lower price than that stipulated in the contract, it
will file copies of any and all such editions, together with the
prices thereof, with the secretary of the Committee;
4. It has not entered into any understanding, agreement or
combination to control the prices or restrict competition in the
sale of textbooks;

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5. It will furnish the textbooks to the State of Oklahoma
during the term of the contract in such amounts as may be required;
and
6. It will furnish for a like period in lieu of the
corresponding textbooks under contract any other books listed in any
annual statement subsequently filed by it during the term of the
contract to any school district at the lowest new prices contained
in such statement, and that it will maintain said prices uniformly
through the state; and
7. All electronic materials furnished in lieu of or bundled
with a physical textbook are ready for use or will be ready for use
by the date of delivery.
B. Textbooks selected by the State Textbook Committee may be
purchased by school districts at the prices for which contracts have
been awarded, pending the effective dates of the contracts.
C. The chairperson and secretary of the State Textbook
Committee, on the advice and consent of the attorney for the State
Department of Education, may, with the consent of the holders of
state textbook contracts, change any contract to conform with the
provisions of Section 16-102 of this title.
D. As requested by a school district or the Oklahoma School for
the Blind, all publishers who enter into contracts with the State
Textbook Committee shall be required to furnish the Committee with
electronic files in a file format from which Braille and other

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accessible versions of the instructional materials can be produced.
The file format in which electronic instructional materials files
are provided to the Committee shall be in a format prescribed by
federal law or regulations promulgated by the United States
Department of Education which requi