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Education and ScienceH.R. 6686Not Yet VotedComments

No Cost Educational Resources Act of 2025

Official title: 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.

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What This Bill Does

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.

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  1. Library of CongressIntroduced in House
  2. House floor actionsReferred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
  3. Introduced
  4. Committee

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