Georgia Senate expands definition of textbook to include electronic texts

This Tuesday morning, the Georgia State Senate voted by a margin of 45-5 to expand the definition of textbook to accommodate the use of electronic textbooks.

“I know how kids learn today and it is not the way it was when I was a kid,” said the bill’s author Cecil Staton (R-Macon). “It is not about telling them to go read a textbook that was written six years. It is classrooms that allow our children to learn through whatever means are available.”

Senators who voted against the bill worried about rising costs - proponents of the bill see that as a separate issue, as this bill does not require the use or purchase of said texts.