H.R. 6686 explained · 119th Congress · Pending in Congress
No Cost Educational Resources Act of 2025
Cosponsors: 1 (1 D, 0 R) · per Congress.gov, 2026-10-09
Introduced: 2025-12-12
Latest action (2025-12-12): Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
What H.R. 6686 does, in plain terms
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.
Official summary by the Congressional Research Service, via Congress.gov.
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