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This bill requires the state board to contract with a high-quality open educational resource repository to develop and maintain a web portal customized to meet the needs of individual institutions of higher education, students, and others who may benefit from access to open educational resources.
Last Action: Filed – 03/07/2019.
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This bill amends existing law and requires agreements between school districts and public institutions of higher education that provide dual credit programs to consider the use of free or low-cost open educational resources in courses offered under the program.
Last Action: Committee report filed, distributed, sent to Calendars – 04/12/2019.
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This bill would require the board to conduct a study on methods to reduce the cost of electronic textbooks and course materials required or recommended for core curriculum courses.
Last Action: Committee report filed, distributed, sent to Local & Consent Calendar – 04/23/2019.
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Inclusion of Certain Textbook Costs in Tuition or Fees Charge: This bill allows the governing board of institutions of higher education to establish a textbook affordability program under which the institution may include the cost of any textbooks or other materials required for a course in the tuition or required fees charged by the institution for the course. To establish the program, the institution must enter into an agreement with a book publisher or other entity to make those textbooks or materials available to students at below competitive market rates and there must be an opt out policy, as well as a requirement the students are able to obtain the textbooks within seven days of the start of the semester or term.
Last Action: House: Committee report sent to Calendars – 04/26/2019. Senate: Read first time, referred to Higher Education – 03/14/2019.
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