Okla. Stat. tit. 70, § 70-16-106

contract - Braille versions.

A. All contracts with publishers shall be signed by the

chairperson and secretary of the State Textbook Committee on behalf

of the state. Each contract shall stipulate the price at which each

textbook will be sold to the State of Oklahoma, and that all copies

supplied to the State of Oklahoma will be equal to or better than

the official copy filed with the secretary of the Committee. The

State Textbook Committee may approve the substitution of a later

edition in lieu of the textbook originally selected. The publisher

shall stipulate in the contract that:

1. The price for which the textbook is to be furnished will be

the lowest at which the same textbook will be sold or offered for

sale for the purpose of securing a state or local selection or

adoption elsewhere in the United States during the six (6) months

prior to the date of the execution of the contract;

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2. It will reduce the contract price of the textbook, if the

price of the same textbook is reduced below such contract price

elsewhere in the United States, and that it will file with the

secretary of the Committee a sworn statement of such reduction made

elsewhere;

3. If it prepares any supplementary or abridged or special

editions of any of the textbooks, and shall sell such editions

elsewhere at a lower price than that stipulated in the contract, it

will file copies of any and all such editions, together with the

prices thereof, with the secretary of the Committee;

4. It has not entered into any understanding, agreement or

combination to control the prices or restrict competition in the

sale of textbooks;

5. It will furnish the textbooks to the State of Oklahoma

during the term of the contract in such amounts as may be required;

and

6. It will furnish for a like period in lieu of the

corresponding textbooks under contract any other books listed in any

annual statement subsequently filed by it during the term of the

contract to any school district at the lowest new prices contained

in such statement, and that it will maintain said prices uniformly

through the state.

B. Textbooks selected by the State Textbook Committee may be

purchased by school districts at the prices for which contracts have

been awarded, pending the effective dates of the contracts.

C. The chairperson and secretary of the State Textbook

Committee, on the advice and consent of the attorney for the State

Department of Education, may, with the consent of the holders of

state textbook contracts, change any contract to conform with the

provisions of Section 16-102 of this title.

D. As requested by a school district or the Oklahoma School for

the Blind, all publishers who enter into contracts with the State

Textbook Committee shall be required to furnish the Committee with

electronic files in a file format from which Braille and other

accessible versions of the instructional materials can be produced.

The file format in which electronic instructional materials files

are provided to the Committee shall be in a format prescribed by

federal law or regulations promulgated by the United States

Department of Education which requires national standards for

electronic files to be used for production of accessible

instructional materials. In the absence of a federal law or

regulation establishing a national standard, a file format standard

shall be prescribed by the State Department of Rehabilitation

Services.