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BILL · 2015–16 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SHB 2686

HB 2686: Textbook affordability

Making the cost of textbooks and other college course materials more affordable.

Summary

  • Requires the community and technical colleges to revise their college catalogs and course descriptions to designate which courses qualify as having open educational resources.
  • Requires the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (State Board) to administer a grant program to fund campus level coordinators to promote and facilitate expansion of the Open Course Library.
  • Requires the State Board to administer a grant program to encourage community and technical colleges to create a degree or certificate program composed only of courses designated as having open educational resources.
  • Requires the Student Achievement Council (Council) to administer a grant program to fund campus level coordinators to promote and facilitate access to open educational resources for the four-year institutions of higher education.
  • Requires the State Board and Council to report to the Governor and appropriate committees of the Legislature by December 1, 2018, on the impact of the grant programs created and recommendations for how to further reduce required textbooks' and course materials' cost.
  • Includes a null and void clause for the grant programs created if funding is not received.

From the House Bill Report (HB 2686), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 18, 2016
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Pat Sullivan (D-47)
Introduced
January 18, 2016 in the House
Last action
March 10, 2016
Budget
Has a fiscal note
Versions
HB 2686, SHB 2686

AN ACT Relating to making the cost of textbooks and other college course materials more affordable;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Pat Sullivan (D-47)

12 co-sponsors (9 Democrats, 3 Republicans)

Brady Walkinshaw D-43Steve Bergquist D-11Chris Kilduff D-28JD Rossetti D-19Liz Pike R-18Hans Zeiger R-25Derek Stanford D-1Chad Magendanz R-5Jessyn Farrell D-46Sharon Tomiko Santos D-37Timm Ormsby D-3Gerry Pollet D-46

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. (SHB 2686)
  2. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  3. Referred to Appropriations. (SHB 2686)
  4. HE - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SHB 2686)
  5. HE - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
  6. Referred to Appropriations.
  7. First reading, referred to Higher Education (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 2686 in other sessions

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