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O.C.G.A. 20-2-1010 (2010)
20-2-1010. State board to prescribe textbooks; choosing from multiple listings

(a) The State Board of Education is authorized to prescribe, by regulation, the definition of the term "textbook" to include but not be limited to systematically designed material in any medium, print, nonprint, or digital including any computer hardware, software, and technical equipment necessary to support such material that constitutes the principal source of study for a state funded course and to prescribe the textbooks to be used in the various grades in the public schools of this state, including the elementary grades and high school grades. The state board may provide, by regulation, for multiple listings of textbooks for use in the various grades and may, in its discretion, authorize the local school superintendents to exercise a choice as between textbooks so listed or adopted for any particular grade.

(b) Nothing in this Code section shall be construed to exempt computer hardware or related equipment acquired by the state from competitive bidding.

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O.C.G.A. 20-2-1010 (2010)
20-2-1010. State board to prescribe textbooks; choosing from multiple listings

(a) The State Board of Education is authorized to prescribe, by regulation, the definition of the term "textbook" to include but not be limited to systematically designed material in any medium, print, nonprint, or digital including any computer hardware, software, and technical equipment necessary to support such material that constitutes the principal source of study for a state funded course and to prescribe the textbooks to be used in the various grades in the public schools of this state, including the elementary grades and high school grades. The state board may provide, by regulation, for multiple listings of textbooks for use in the various grades and may, in its discretion, authorize the local school superintendents to exercise a choice as between textbooks so listed or adopted for any particular grade.

(b) Nothing in this Code section shall be construed to exempt computer hardware or related equipment acquired by the state from competitive bidding.

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O.C.G.A. 20-2-1010 (2010)
20-2-1010. State board to prescribe textbooks; choosing from multiple listings

(a) The State Board of Education is authorized to prescribe, by regulation, the definition of the term "textbook" to include but not be limited to systematically designed material in any medium, print, nonprint, or digital including any computer hardware, software, and technical equipment necessary to support such material that constitutes the principal source of study for a state funded course and to prescribe the textbooks to be used in the various grades in the public schools of this state, including the elementary grades and high school grades. The state board may provide, by regulation, for multiple listings of textbooks for use in the various grades and may, in its discretion, authorize the local school superintendents to exercise a choice as between textbooks so listed or adopted for any particular grade.

(b) Nothing in this Code section shall be construed to exempt computer hardware or related equipment acquired by the state from competitive bidding.