CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2300



60th Legislature
2007 Regular Session

Passed by the House March 12, 2007
  Yeas 93   Nays 4


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Speaker of the House of Representatives


Passed by the Senate April 10, 2007
  Yeas 45   Nays 0



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President of the Senate
CERTIFICATE

I, Richard Nafziger, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2300 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.



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Chief Clerk
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Governor of the State of Washington
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Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2300
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Passed Legislature - 2007 Regular Session
State of Washington60th Legislature2007 Regular Session

By House Committee on Higher Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Hasegawa, Jarrett, Wallace, B. Sullivan, Kenney, Hunter, Goodman, Dunshee, Chase, Ormsby, Kelley, Simpson and Blake)

READ FIRST TIME 2/28/07.   



     AN ACT Relating to college textbooks; and adding a new section to chapter 28B.10 RCW.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 28B.10 RCW to read as follows:
     (1) Each publisher of college textbooks shall make immediately available to faculty of institutions of higher education:
     (a) The price at which the publisher would make the products available to the store run by or in a contractual relationship with the institution of higher education that would offer the products to students; and
     (b) The history of revisions for the products, if any.
     (2) For the purposes of this section:
     (a) "Immediately available" means with any marketing materials presented to a member of the faculty.
     (b) "Products" means all versions of a textbook or set of textbooks, except custom textbooks or special editions of textbooks, available in the subject area for which a faculty member is teaching a course, including supplemental items, both when sold together or separately from a textbook.

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