3.0.0 1384 2023-01-13T04:50:26Z 2023-01-13T04:50:26Z Senate S S 2005-07-12 109 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2005-07-12T19:09:29Z Affordable Books for College Act 109 3259 HR 2005-08-10 Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness. Identical bill CRS 2005-07-12 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2005-07-12 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S000148 Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY] Charles Schumer D NY E. N Education Colleges Commerce Economics and Public Finance Federal aid to education Government Operations and Politics Government lending Government publications Governmental investigations Higher education Labor and Employment Lease and rental services Recruiting of employees Retail trade Storage Student employment Textbooks Education 00 2005-07-12 Introduced in Senate 2005-08-03T21:32:05Z Affordable Books for College Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a demonstration program of loans to expand college bookstore services to provide students with the option to rent course materials.

Directs the Secretary of Education to make such loans to a limited number of eligible entities, as well as feasibility study grants prior to loan applications.

]]> Affordable Books for College Act Display Title Affordable Books for College Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a demonstration program to support college and university communities that wish to expand their book store services and saving for students through the creation of course material rental programs. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Affordable Books for College Act Introduced in Senate 2005-07-12T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109s1384is/xml/BILLS-109s1384is.xml 2005-07-12 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.