When adopting instructional materials for use in the schools, governing boards shall include only instructional materials that, in their determination, accurately portray the cultural and racial diversity of our society, including:

cultural, religious, and socioeconomic status groups to the total development of California and the United States.

No later than July 1, 2025, the department shall issue guidance related to how to help school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and school personnel manage conversations about race, ethnicity, nationality, and gender, and how to review instructional materials to ensure that they represent diverse perspectives and are culturally relevant.

When adopting instructional materials for use in the schools, governing boards shall include only instructional materials that accurately portray both of the following, whenever appropriate:

Health and Safety Code, and other dangerous substances.

When adopting instructional materials for use in the schools, governing boards shall require such materials as they deem necessary and proper to encourage thrift, fire prevention and the humane treatment of animals and people.

When adopting instructional materials for use in the schools, the governing board shall require, when appropriate to the comprehension of pupils, that textbooks for social science, history or civics classes contain the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.

A governing board shall not adopt any instructional materials for use in the schools that, in its determination, contain:

other allowable exceptions to this subdivision for educational purposes, as determined by the state board.

Any governing board may conduct an investigation of the compliance of any instructional materials which it adopts with the requirements of this article.

In the event that after the good faith acquisition of instructional materials by a governing board, the instructional materials are found to be in violation of this article and the governing board is unable to acquire other instructional materials which meet the requirements of this article in time for them to be used when the acquired materials were planned to be used, the governing board may use the acquired materials but only for that academic year.

may not adopt basic instructional materials, and other instructional materials required to be legally and socially compliant pursuant to Sections 60040 to 60047, inclusive, including illustrations, that contain a commercial brand name, product, or corporate or company logo unless the governing board makes a specific finding pursuant to the criteria set forth in paragraph (5) of subdivision (c) of Section 60200 that the use of the commercial brand name, product, or corporate or company logo in the instructional materials is appropriate.

regulations that provide for other allowable exceptions to this section, as determined by the state board.

When adopting instructional materials for use in schools, the governing board of a school district may include relevant technology-based materials, as defined in subdivision (m) of Section 60010, if the materials are both available and comparable to other, equivalent instructional materials, as defined in subdivision (h) of Section 60010.