| State |
Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2012 | Postsec. | California Open Education Resources Council
S.B. 1052
Similar to S.B. 1053 (http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1051-1100/sb_1053_bill_20120905_enrolled.pdf)
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2012 | Postsec. | California Digital Open Source Library
S.B. 1053
Similar to S.B. 1052 (http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1051-1100/sb_1052_bill_20120905_enrolled.pdf)
From bill summary: Expr...
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2012 | Postsec. | Postsecondary Textbooks
S.B. 1539
Requires a textbook publisher, or an agent or employee of a publisher, to provide prescribed data about the textbook to prospective purchase...
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2012 | Postsec. | Omnibus - Higher Education
S.F. 1573
Requires a public postsecondary institution to grant a waiver from the institution's required student health plan, if requested by a student...
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| OR | Signed into law 03/2012 | Postsec. | Higher Education Textbook Affordability
H.B. 4058
Calls on the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to convene a work group to examine and recommend adoption of strategies for making tex...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | Postsec. | Measures to Increase College Textbook Affordability
H.B. 33
Defines terms, including "custom textbook" and "textbook bundle". Requires each institution of higher education to compile a course schedule...
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2011 | Postsec. | Tax Exemption for Postsecondary Textbook
S.B. 69
Defines "textbook for a higher education course" to include a textbook in electronic format. Provides a tax exemption for purchase of a text...
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| PA | Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 11/2010 | P-12
Postsec. | Textbook Affordability
H.B. 101 - Article XX-F
Requires that faculty members consider the least costly practices when assigning textbooks. Requires institutions of higher education to pos...
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| MI | Signed into law 10/2010 | Postsec. | University Policies For Minimizing Textbook and Course Material Costs
S.B. 1157 - Sec. 426
Requires each public university to develop policies for minimizing the cost of textbooks and course materials used at the university while m...
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2010 | Postsec. | Postsecondary Transfer and Student Textbooks
A.B. 2203
Requires the Trustees of the California State University (CSU), and requests the Regents of the University of California (UC) to review and ...
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| NY | Signed into law 07/2010 | Postsec. | Instructional Materials for College Students with Disabilities
A.B. 10118
From bill analysis: Extends the expiration date of a provision that requires publishers or manufacturers to provide additional instructional...
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2010 | Postsec. | Open-access Textbooks
HB 5201-Sec. 4
Requires faculty to determine, before a textbook is adopted, the extent to which an open-access textbook may exist and be used; requires pol...
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2010 | Postsec.
Community College | Monitoring of Federal Postsecondary Textbook Disclosure Law
S.F. 184
Directs OHE to monitor the implementation of federal requirements for disclosure of information to students on textbooks, including pricing ...
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2009 | Postsec. | Electronic College Textbooks
S.B. 48
Requires that publishers of textbooks offered for sale at a public or a private postsecondary institution of education make the textbooks av...
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2009 | Postsec. | Captioned Electronic Instructional Materials
A.B. 386
Relates to existing law which requires publishers and manufacturers of printed instructional material for use at public postsecondary educat...
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| TX | Issued 09/2009 | Postsec. | Higher Education Cost Efficiencies
E.O. RP73
Directs the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, in cooperation with Texas public institutions of higher education, to undertake a com...
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2009 | Postsec. | College Textbooks
H.B. 461
Creates the Transparency in College Textbook Publishing Practices Act. Requires each publisher of college textbooks to disclose to a faculty...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | Postsec. | Textbook Purchases
H.B. 1096
Requires each institution of higher education to provide all students with written notification on the availability of required textbooks th...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | Postsec. | Cost-Savings and Electronic Textbooks
H.B. 4149
Directs the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to identify achievable cost-saving measures at public institutions of higher education...
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Open-Source Textbooks
H.B. 2488
Defines open-source textbooks as textbooks downloadable from the Internet at no cost to the student. Requires districts and charter schools ...
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2009 | Postsec.
Community College | Textbook Policies
H.B. 85; S.B. 183
Requires public institutions of higher education in the state, excluding overseas programs of the University of Maryland University College,...
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2009 | Postsec. | Disclosure of Textbooks
H.B. 1025
Requires that information be disclosed to students attending a postsecondary institution concerning required course materials, including tit...
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