1. (1) The Kentucky Board of Education, upon the recommendation of the chief state school officer, shall select suitable instructional materials and programs in an appropriate format, which include braille textbooks, and other materials available in clear type of eighteen (18) to twenty-four (24) points in the different subject areas for children with impaired vision who are attending the public schools of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in grades kindergarten through twelve (12). These instructional materials shall not be subject to the official bids, filing fees, sampling, and the stipulated list prices, lowest wholesale prices, and the standards and specifications required for the instructional materials approved and listed by the State Quality Curriculum Task Force under KRS 156.395 to 156.476 for regular use by the pupils attending the public schools of the State of Kentucky. The Kentucky Board of Education, upon the recommendation of the chief state school officer, may promulgate an administrative regulation determining the pupils eligible for the instructional materials, the number and types of instructional materials to be purchased, and the general administration of the program. The chief state school officer, subject to the approval of the Kentucky Board of Education, may purchase these books and materials and distribute them without cost to the pupils with impaired vision attending the public schools of the state. All instructional materials and programs purchased under this section for the pupils with impaired vision are the property of the state.
2. (2) The Department of Education shall require any publisher or developer of an instructional material or program adopted for use in the public schools of the Commonwealth to furnish the American Printing House for the Blind with an electronic version of those instructional materials either in the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, (ASCII), or in any other format which can be readily translated into braille or large print.

Effective: July 1, 2026

History: Amended 2025 Ky. Acts ch. 113, sec. 25, effective July 1, 2026. -- Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 419, sec. 13, effective July 14, 2000. -- Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 362, sec. 6, effective July 15, 1996.. -- Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 382, sec. 4, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 476, Pt. IV, sec. 165, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 463, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1986. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 9, sec. 7, effective July 15, 1982. -- Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 155, sec. 82, effective June 17, 1978. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 71, sec. 13, effective March 13, 1974. -- Created 1960 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 3.