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H.R. 6686 119th Congress House

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 instit… 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 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.

Introduced: January 7, 2026 Introduced by: Bill Foster Democratic · Illinois See on congress.gov
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Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Dec 12, 2025
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Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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.

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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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H.R. 6686, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-6686/.
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