§302A-442.5  Instructional materials;exceptional children.  (a)  Whenever used in this section, unless adifferent meaning clearly appears from the context:

"Braille" means the system of readingand writing through touch commonly known as standard English braille.

(b)  All publishers of textbooks andinstructional materials sold to the State or any public school shall furnishcomputer diskettes for literary subjects in the American Standard Code forInformation Interchange from which braille versions can be produced. Publishers shall also furnish computer diskettes in American Standard Code forInformation Interchange for nonliterary subjects including natural sciences,computer science, mathematics, and music when braille specialty codetranslation software is available.

(c)  This section shall not apply to publishersof textbooks and instructional materials written in the Hawaiian language. [L2002, c 193, §7; am L 2004, c 220, §3]