119th Congress
H.R. 6686
No Cost Educational Resources Act of 2025
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To President
- Became law
- Sponsor
- Bill Foster(D-IL)
- Introduced
- Dec 12, 2025
- Policy area
- Education
- Committees
- House Committee on Education and Workforce
- Official text
- Introduced in House · Congress.gov page
Cosponsors (1)
Added later (1)
- André Carson (D-IN) · Jan 7, 2026
Summary
Summary by the Congressional Research Service· describes the “Introduced in House” version
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.
Roll-call votes
No recorded votes on this bill.
Actions
- Dec 12, 2025 · House
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. - Dec 12, 2025
Introduced in House