HR6686Referred to Committee

No Cost Educational Resources Act of 2025

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Introduced
In Committee
3
Passed One Chamber
4
Passed Both
5
Signed into Law
119th
Congress
2025-12-12
Introduced
1
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Sponsor

Bill Foster
Bill Foster
Democrat · IL · Representative
Votes with party: 97.6% (550 recorded votes)

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Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

2025-12-12

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Plain-English Summary

No Cost Educational Resources Act of 2025 This bill authorizes the Institute of Museum and Library Services to award grants to institutions of higher education (IHEs) for facilitating the adoption, adaption, and creation of open educational reading materials and establishing more open educational reading material courses. Open educational reading material refers to a free digital text that is publicly available to be downloaded and redistributed. Open educational reading material course refers to a science, technology, engineering, or math course offered by an IHE that uses only open educational reading materials as the form of the required readings for the course.

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

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Education
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