1. (a) A publisher may submit a request to the commissioner of education for approval to substitute a revision, update, or later edition of state-adopted instructional materials. A publisher requesting a substitution shall provide the request in writing, along with two copies of the revision, update, or later edition, and one copy of the corresponding state-adopted instructional material.
2. (b) Requests for approval of substitutions shall provide that there will be no additional cost to the state.
3. (c) Except for electronic instructional materials, requests for approval of substitutions shall not be approved during the first year of the original contract.
4. (d) Responses from the commissioner of education to substitution requests shall be provided within 30 days after receipt of the request.
5. (e) Requests for substitutions of state-adopted instructional materials with revised editions must be approved by the State Board of Education (SBOE) if the revised edition differs in its coverage of the Texas essential knowledge and skills from the original submission adopted by the SBOE.

Source Note:The provisions of this §66.75 adopted to be effective September 1, 1996, 21 TexReg 7236; amended to be effective August 15, 1999, 24 TexReg 5699.