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Blind Persons' Literacy Rights and Education Act: textbook publishers furnish NIMAS and Braille-compatible electronic files
Miss. Code Ann. § 37-23-199(1)
In force since .
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What it requires
- If you sell textbooks published after December 2008 to Mississippi school districts, furnish the State Department of Education with computer files for literary and nonliterary subjects in the National Instructional Media Access Standard (NIMAS), from which Braille, audio and large print versions of the textbooks can be produced (Miss. Code Ann. 37-23-199(1)).
- Furnish the department with NIMAS, ASCII or other electronically formatted files compatible with Braille conversion for all adopted textbooks and supplementary materials published after December 2008, and supply appropriate accompanying reproduction files with every book purchased (Miss. Code Ann. 37-23-199(1)).
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What this law does
Section 37-23-199(1) of the Blind Persons' Literacy Rights and Education Act, as amended by House Bill 960 of the 2012 Regular Session, requires all textbook publishers that sell textbooks published after December 2008 to school districts within the state to furnish the State Department of Education with computer files for literary and nonliterary subjects in the National Instructional Media Access Standard (NIMAS) from which Braille, audio and large print versions of the textbooks can be produced.
The publishers must also furnish the department with NIMAS files, American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) or other electronically formatted files compatible with Braille conversion for all adopted textbooks and supplementary materials published after December 2008, in both literary and nonliterary subjects, including natural sciences, computer science, mathematics and music. All books purchased must have appropriate accompanying reproduction files. House Bill 960 took effect .
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