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Code · BILL · 118th Congress · S. 978 (Introduced in Senate) — To expand the use of open textbooks in order to achieve savings for students and improve textbook price information. · Sec. 6

Sec. 6. GAO report

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Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall prepare and submit a report to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate and the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives on the cost of textbooks to students at institutions of higher education. The report shall particularly examine— the implementation of section 133 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1015b ), as amended by section 4, including— the availability of college textbook and open educational resource information on course schedules; the compliance of publishers with applicable requirements under such section; and the costs and benefits to institutions of higher education and to students; the change in the cost of textbooks; the factors, including open textbooks, that have contributed to the change of the cost of textbooks; the extent to which open textbooks are used at institutions of higher education; and how institutions are tracking the impact of open textbooks on instruction and student learning outcomes.
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