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HR 6204 114th Congress House

No Cost Educational Resources Act

Official title: To amend section 262 of the Museum and Library Services Act to authorize the Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Service to award grants to institu… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To amend section 262 of the Museum and Library Services Act to authorize the Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Service 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.

Introduced: September 28, 2016 Introduced by: Foster, Bill Democratic · Illinois See on congress.gov
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Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
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Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

No Cost Educational Resources Act

This bill amends the Museum and Library Services Act of 1996 to modify the National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program.

Specifically, it expands the purposes of the grant program to include providing funds for open educational reading material courses. Additionally, the bill authorizes the Institute of Museum and Library Service to award grants to institutions of higher education to facilitate the adoption, adaption, and creation of open educational reading materials, and to establish more open educational reading material courses.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 6204: No Cost Educational Resources Act. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-6204/
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"H.R. 6204: No Cost Educational Resources Act." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-6204/.
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H.R. 6204, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-6204/.
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