118th Congress Education
H.R. 1811: Affordable College Textbook Act
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Summary
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.
Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
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Cosponsors
- Adam Smith D-WA
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History
- Introduced in the House by Joe Neguse.
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- Introduced in House
- Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.