3.0.0 3818 2022-12-29T22:33:31Z 2022-12-29T22:33:31Z Senate S 2022-03-10 117 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2022-03-10T23:22:36Z Affordable College Textbook Act 117 7040 HR 2022-03-09 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. Identical bill CRS 2022-03-10 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text: CR S1122-1123) IntroReferral 2022-03-10 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. N K000383 Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME] Angus King I ME S. 2022-03-10 True S001203 Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN] Tina Smith D MN 2022-03-10 True S001191 Sen. Sinema, Kyrsten [D-AZ] Kyrsten Sinema D AZ 2022-03-10 True Education Education 00 2022-03-10 Introduced in Senate 2022-03-18T15:51:48Z 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.

]]> Affordable College Textbook Act Display Title Affordable College Textbook Act Short Title(s) as Introduced Affordable College Textbook Act Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to expand the use of open textbooks in order to achieve savings for students and improve textbook price information. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-117s3818is/xml/BILLS-117s3818is.xml 2022-03-10 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text: CR S1122-1123) 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.