Affordable College Textbook Act

United States117th CongressS-3818Senate
Updated: Mar 10, 2022

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.

Bill texts

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Timeline

Latest companion bill action

HR-7040: Affordable College Textbook Act

Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.

  1. Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text: CR S1122-1123)

    Senate

  2. Introduced in Senate

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