Affordable College Textbook Act has not moved since its introduction on Feb 26, 2025, with cosponsors, all Democrats
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 141 words.
Affordable College Textbook Act This bill provides statutory authority for an open textbook grant program for institutions of higher education (IHEs). (A similar program, known as the Open Textbooks Pilot program, first received federal funding in FY2018.) Specifically, the bill directs the Department of Education to make grants to IHEs or states on behalf of IHEs to support projects that expand the use of open textbooks. 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. 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 to the change in the cost of textbooks.
- Committees
- Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee
- Policy area
- Education: 22 of 3,602 bills became law, 113th–118th (0.6%)
- Sponsor
- 6 of 577 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 1: introduced in senate · 2,467 words
- Subjects
- Books and print mediaCongressional oversightDigital mediaEducation programs fundingGovernment studies and investigationsHigher education +1 more
- Latest action
- Feb 26, 2025: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text: CR S1398-1399)
- Records
- Congress.gov · Bill text
Each bill appears once, under its strongest link. 1 in all.
Identical or companion · 1
- 119th H.R. 1886 Affordable College Textbook Act D · Introduced