118th Congress · HOUSE BILLBILL

H.R. 6026 — No Cost Educational Resources Act of 2023

“To amend section 262 of the Museum and Library Services Act to authorize the Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services to award grants to institutions of higher education for courses that use only publicly available digital resources for required reading assignments, and for other purposes.”

Education

Introduced Oct 24, 2023

Last action Oct 25, 2023

Pipeline · Bill → Law

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Introduced

Oct 24, 2023

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Referred

Oct 25, 2023

Education and Workforce

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Committee

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House floor

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Senate

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Resolve Changes

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Signed

SummaryCRS Summary

This bill authorizes the Institute of Museum and Library Services to award grants to institutions of higher education (IHEs) for facilitating the adoption, adaption, and creation of open educational reading materials and establishing more open educational reading material courses. Open educational reading material refers to a free digital text that is publicly available to be downloaded and redistributed. Open educational reading material course refers to a science, technology, engineering, or math course offered by an IHE that uses only open educational reading materials as the form of the required readings for the course.

Provisions · 2 sectionsIntroduced in House

Timeline · 2 actions

Oct 25, 2023

Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Oct 24, 2023

Introduced in House