Affordable College Textbook Act

2/16/2024, 9:08 PM

Affordable College Textbook Act

This bill directs the Department of Education to make grants to institutions of higher education or states to support projects that expand the use of open textbooks in order to achieve savings for students while maintaining or improving instruction and student learning outcomes. An open textbook is an educational resource that either resides in the public domain or has been released under an intellectual license that permits its free use, reuse, modification, and sharing with others.

Congress
118

Number
S - 978

Introduced on
2023-03-27

# Amendments
0

Sponsors
+5

Cosponsors
+5

Variations and Revisions

3/27/2023

Status of Legislation

Bill Introduced
Introduced to House
House to Vote
Introduced to Senate
Senate to Vote

Purpose and Summary

Affordable College Textbook Act

This bill directs the Department of Education to make grants to institutions of higher education or states to support projects that expand the use of open textbooks in order to achieve savings for students while maintaining or improving instruction and student learning outcomes. An open textbook is an educational resource that either resides in the public domain or has been released under an intellectual license that permits its free use, reuse, modification, and sharing with others.

Alternative Names
Official Title as IntroducedA bill to expand the use of open textbooks in order to achieve savings for students and improve textbook price information.

Policy Areas
Education

Comments

Recent Activity

Latest Summary6/27/2023

Affordable College Textbook Act

This bill directs the Department of Education to make grants to institutions of higher education or states to support projects that expand the use of open textbooks in order to achieve savings fo...


Latest Action3/27/2023
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text: CR S955-957)