HR 6686 119th Congress House Education

No Cost Educational Resources Act of 2025

Introduced: January 7, 2026 Introduced by: Foster, Bill Democratic · Illinois See on congress.gov

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Dec 12, 2025

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No Cost Educational Resources Act of 2025

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.

What's happening now December 12, 2025

Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

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Education and Workforce Committee
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Carson, André

Indiana · Jan 7, 2026

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 6686: No Cost Educational Resources Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-6686/

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"H.R. 6686: No Cost Educational Resources Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-6686/.

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