3.0.0 3410 2022-02-09T01:10:56Z 2022-02-09T01:10:56Z Senate S 2020-03-05 116 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2020-03-05T20:34:29Z 2020-03-05 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2020-03-05 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C001075 Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA] Bill Cassidy R LA N C001070 Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA] Bob Casey D PA 2020-03-05 True Education Disability and paralysis Disability assistance Higher education Special education Teaching, teachers, curricula Education 00 2020-03-05 Introduced in Senate 2021-01-27T18:07:25Z Access to Instructional Materials in Higher Education Act of 2020 or the AIM-HIGH Act

This bill revises model demonstration programs requiring the Department of Education (ED) to award certain grants or contracts to eligible partnerships to develop systems for the timely delivery and quality of instructional materials to postsecondary students with print disabilities.

Specifically, the bill (1) revises the definition of student with a print disability, and (2) requires such instructional materials to be commercially produced or open source and in accessible formats.

Additionally, the bill requires eligible partnerships to include (1) one or more institutions of higher education with demonstrated expertise in meeting the needs of students with print disabilities, and (2) a public or private entity with demonstrated expertise in developing such materials in accessible formats. Such public or private entity must also have a demonstrated capability to partner with national consumer organizations with the capacity to engage postsecondary students with print disabilities in the development and implementation of such materials.

It also authorizes ED to complete a national expansion of such model programs.

]]> AIM-HIGH Act Display Title AIM-HIGH Act Short Title(s) as Introduced AIM-HIGH Act Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced Access to Instructional Materials in Higher Education Act of 2020 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to improve access to postsecondary instructional materials for students with print disabilities. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s3410is/xml/BILLS-116s3410is.xml 2020-03-05 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.