HR1886Referred to Committee

Affordable College Textbook Act

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Introduced
In Committee
3
Passed One Chamber
4
Passed Both
5
Signed into Law
119th
Congress
2025-03-05
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Sponsor

Joe Neguse
Joe Neguse
Democrat · CO · Representative
Votes with party: 98.1% (672 recorded votes)
Top industries funding sponsor:
  • Progressive Groups$78k

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Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

2025-03-05

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Plain-English Summary

Affordable College Textbook Act This bill provides statutory authority for an open textbook grant program for institutions of higher education (IHEs). (A similar program, known as the Open Textbooks Pilot program, first received federal funding in FY2018.) Specifically, the bill directs the Department of Education to make grants to IHEs or states on behalf of IHEs to support projects that expand the use of open textbooks. 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. Within three years of the bill's enactment, the Government Accountability Office must report to Congress on the cost of textbooks at IHEs. This report must examine, among other topics, the factors that have contributed to the change in the cost of textbooks.

Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.

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