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



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



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



(c)  This section shall not apply to publishers
of textbooks and instructional materials written in the Hawaiian language. [L
2002, c 193, §7; am L 2004, c 220, §3]