3.0.0 740 2026-02-06T19:37:21Z 2026-02-06T19:37:21Z Senate S S 2025-02-26 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/740 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2025-02-26T16:52:28Z 119 1886 HR 2025-03-05 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. Identical bill CRS 2025-02-26 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text: CR S1398-1399) IntroReferral 2025-02-26 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. 2025-02-26 True S001203 Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN] Tina Smith D MN 2025-02-26 True W000779 Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] Ron Wyden D OR 2025-02-26 True Education Books and print media 2026-02-06T19:37:05Z Congressional oversight 2026-02-06T19:37:16Z Digital media 2026-02-06T19:37:10Z Education programs funding 2026-02-06T19:36:53Z Government studies and investigations 2026-02-06T19:37:21Z Higher education 2026-02-06T19:36:47Z Teaching, teachers, curricula 2026-02-06T19:36:58Z Education 2025-03-21T17:35:09Z

00 2025-02-26 Introduced in Senate 2025-05-08T20:08:29Z <p><strong>Affordable College Textbook Act</strong></p><p>This bill provides statutory authority for an open textbook grant program for&nbsp;institutions of higher education (IHEs). (A similar program, known as the Open Textbooks Pilot program, first received federal funding in FY2018.)</p><p>Specifically, the bill directs the Department of Education to make grants to IHEs or states on behalf of IHEs&nbsp;to support projects that expand the use of open textbooks. An <em>open textbook</em> 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.</p><p>Within three years of the bill's enactment, the Government Accountability Office must report to Congress on the cost of textbooks at IHEs. This report must examine, among other topics, the factors that have contributed&nbsp;to the change in the cost of textbooks.</p>

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