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A02248 Summary:

BILL NOA02248 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORSantabarbara

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COSPNSRColton, DeStefano

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MLTSPNSR

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Add Art 15-D §§730 - 734, Ed L

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Enacts the college textbook affordability act; establishes the New York state open education resources council and the New York state open source digital library; authorizes SUNY campuses and community colleges to adopt open educational resources adoption incentive program campus plans and apply for grants to implement such plans; provides that settlements with the office of the attorney general shall be used to provide assistance to the state university of New York for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this act.

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BILL NOA02248 

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01/15/2025referred to higher education

01/07/2026referred to higher education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 2248

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 15, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Higher Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to enacting the college
 textbook affordability act; and providing for the repeal of such
 provisions upon expiration thereof

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "college textbook affordability act".
 3 § 2. The education law is amended by adding a new article 15-D to read
 4 as follows:
 5 ARTICLE 15-D
 6 COLLEGE TEXTBOOK AFFORDABILITY ACT
 7 Section 730. Legislative intent.
 8 731. New York state open education resources council.
 9 732. New York state open source digital library.
 10 733. Open educational resources adoption incentive program.
 11 734. Open educational resources adoption incentive program
 12 campus plan.
 13 § 730. Legislative intent. The college textbook affordability act is
 14 hereby enacted to reduce costs for college students by encouraging
 15 faculty to accelerate the adoption of lower cost, high-quality, open
 16 educational resources. Faculty development shall be a key component of
 17 this acceleration initiative. This initiative shall use, in addition to
 18 any other appropriate resources, those identified, housed, produced, and
 19 otherwise found appropriate pursuant to the New York state open educa-
 20 tion resources council established in section seven hundred thirty-one
 21 of this article and the New York state digital open source library,
 22 established in section seven hundred thirty-two of this article.
 23 § 731. New York state open education resources council. 1. The New
 24 York state open education resources council is hereby established in the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05017-01-5

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 1 state university of New York. The council shall be composed of faculty
 2 leaders from state university of New York institutions and community
 3 colleges.
 4 2. The council shall have nine members: five members shall be faculty
 5 of the state university of New York, selected by the University Faculty
 6 Senate, and four members shall be community college faculty, selected by
 7 the Faculty Council of Community Colleges. Appointments to the council
 8 shall be made no later than ninety days after the effective date of this
 9 article.
 10 3. The council shall be responsible for accomplishing all of the
 11 following:
 12 (a)(i) development of a list of fifty strategically selected courses
 13 for which high-quality, affordable, digital open source textbooks and
 14 related materials shall be developed or acquired pursuant to this
 15 section.
 16 (ii) in developing the course list pursuant to this paragraph, the
 17 council shall consider the extent to which the selected courses:
 18 (A) are among the most highly enrolled courses within state university
 19 of New York institutions and at community colleges;
 20 (B) are likely to generate significant savings in textbook costs for
 21 stu