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 10, 2022
Last action Mar 10, 2022
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
2
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Committee
1
Mar 10, 2022
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text: CR S1122-1123)
upper
Mar 10, 2022
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 3 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Richard J. Durbin
DDemocratic
Co
Angus S. King, Jr.
IIndependent
Co
Kyrsten Sinema
IIndependent
Co
Tina Smith
DDemocratic
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