H.R. 6686 · 119th Congress
No Cost Educational Resources Act of 2025
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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.
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Dec 12, 2025
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.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: No Cost Educational Resources Act of 2025
Latest action (Dec 12, 2025): Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Policy area: Education · Origin: House · Introduced: Dec 12, 2025
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.