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S. 978

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To expand the use of open textbooks in order to achieve savings for students and improve textbook price information.
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Committee
Latest Action · March 27, 2023
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text: CR S955-957)
Congress
118th (2023–2025)
Introduced
March 27, 2023
Cosponsors (3)
1D 0R
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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.

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