Affordable College Textbook Act
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 status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2022
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Mar 9, 2022
Last action Mar 9, 2022
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Actions timeline
Total actions
2
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Committee
1
Mar 9, 2022
Committee
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
lower
Mar 9, 2022
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 3 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Joe Neguse
DDemocratic
Co
Eric Swalwell
DDemocratic
Co
Mark DeSaulnier
DDemocratic
Co
Sean Casten
DDemocratic
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