H.R. 6686
No Cost Educational Resources Act of 2025
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Sponsor
Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11]
Bill Details
- Update Date
- Apr 6, 2026
- Origin Chamber
- House
- Bill Type
- HR
- Bill Number
- 6,686
- Congress
- 119
- Introduced Date
- Dec 12, 2025
- Policy Area
- Education
- Is Law
- No
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Source: House floor actions
Introduced in House
Source: Library of Congress
Introduced in House
Source: Library of Congress
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.
Education and Workforce Committee
Introduced in House
Dec 12, 2025