SEC. 9. SUPPLEMENT, NOT SUPPLANT. 
Funds made available under this Act shall be used 
to supplement, and not to supplant, any other Federal, 
State, local, or non-Federal funds available to carry out 
this Act. 
SEC. 10. RESEARCH AND REPORTS. 
(a) RESEARCH.—The Secretary shall conduct re-
search, directly or by grant or contract, about the effect 
of this Act on the timely delivery of instructional materials 
in specialized formats to students who are blind or have 
other print disabilities. 
(b) REPORTS.—Not later than 3 years after the date 
of enactment of this Act, and biennially thereafter, the 
Secretary shall submit to the appropriate committees of 
Congress a report containing the results of the research 
described in subsection (a) and additionally, at a min-
imum, the following information: 
(1) The number of students directly affected by 
this Act. 
(2) The annual cost incurred to carry out this 
Act by the Federal Government, State governments, 
and nonprofit entities that may be involved in ad-
ministering this Act. 
(3) The financial and in-kind contributions of 
State and local governments, and private nonprofit
and for-profit entities, to activities conducted under 
this Act. 
(4) Changes in the percentage of individuals 
who receive appropriate instructional materials in 
specialized formats at the beginning of a school year 
compared to the percentage for the beginning of the 
preceding school year. 
(5) Changes in the timeliness of delivery of ap-
propriate instructional materials in specialized for-
mats from the beginning of one school year to the 
beginning of the next school year. 
(6) The extent to which States and local edu-
cational agencies have been able to satisfy require-
ments of compliance agreements or take other cor-
rective actions regarding the timely delivery of ap-
propriate instructional materials. 
(7) Such other matters as the Secretary con-
siders to be relevant and appropriate. 
SEC. 11. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) The term ‘‘print disability’’ means, with re-
spect to an individual, student, or teacher, eligibility 
or qualification under the Act of March 3, 1931, en-
titled ‘‘An Act to provide books for the adult blind’’
(2 U.S.C. 135a), to receive books and other publica-
tions produced in specialized formats. 
(2) The term ‘‘instructional materials’’ means 
printed textbooks and related core materials that are 
written and published primarily for use in elemen-
tary school and secondary school instruction and are 
required by a State educational agency or local edu-
cational agency for use in the classroom, including 
teacher editions of such materials requested under 
section 4(b)(2)(B). 
(3) The term ‘‘national electronic file format’’ 
means a well-organized, structured, and marked-up 
electronic file that is suitable for efficient conversion 
into specialized formats and that is in conformance 
with the technical standards prescribed under sec-
tion 3(a). 
(4) The term ‘‘Center’’ means the National In-
structional Materials Access Center established by 
the Secretary under section 5. 
(5) The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary 
of Education. 
(6) The term ‘‘specialized format’’, with respect 
to instructional materials, means Braille, synthesized 
speech, digital text, digital audio, or large print.
(7) The terms ‘‘State educational agency’’, 
‘‘local educational agency’’, ‘‘elementary school’’, 
and ‘‘secondary school’’ have the meanings given 
those terms in section 9101 of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 
SEC. 12. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
This Act shall take effect upon its enactment and 
shall apply to instructional materials published and copy-
righted after the date on which the technical standards 
prescribed under section 3(a) take effect. 
SEC. 13. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be appro-
priated to carry out this Act $4,000,000 for fiscal year 
2004 and such sums as may be necessary for each of the 
6 succeeding fiscal years. 
(b) RESERVATION.—From the amount appropriated 
under subsection (a) for each fiscal year to carry out this 
Act, the Secretary shall reserve $1,500,000 to carry out 
section 5.
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