Bill Text: IL HR0832 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Encourages the Illinois Board of Higher Education, the Illinois Board of Higher Education Student Advisory Committee, and other student leaders, college officials, faculty, college bookstores, and publishers to discuss ways that college students may be better informed of these different textbook options and how access to them can be increased, without adversely impacting any existing textbook rental or already established access or affordability programs available to Illinois students.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2014-05-09 - Resolution Adopted [HR0832 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-HR0832-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The federal Higher Education Opportunity Act and | ||||||
| 3 | the Illinois Transparency in College Textbook Publishing | ||||||
| 4 | Practices Act are laws that provide for transparency and ready | ||||||
| 5 | availability of textbook and course material pricing and sales | ||||||
| 6 | information and the unbundling of course materials; and
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| 7 | WHEREAS, Publishers have increased the availability of | ||||||
| 8 | affordable options by producing unbundled, black and white, | ||||||
| 9 | unbound, and electronic versions of textbooks and course | ||||||
| 10 | materials; and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, Campus bookstores, both online and in-store, have | ||||||
| 12 | increased the availability of lower cost alternatives for | ||||||
| 13 | students by offering students choices between bundled products | ||||||
| 14 | and components, print or digital formats, and choices in | ||||||
| 15 | purchase versus rental; and
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| 16 | WHEREAS, Campus bookstores prominently display format and | ||||||
| 17 | pricing options via shelf tags and other point of purchase | ||||||
| 18 | materials to students in store and online; and
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| 19 | WHEREAS, While these alternative options, which offer more | ||||||
| 20 | variety in pricing and can be more affordable to students and | ||||||
| 21 | meet their specific needs or learning styles, are available for | ||||||
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| 1 | students, more education and outreach is needed to ensure | ||||||
| 2 | students are fully aware of these options; therefore, be it
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| 3 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 4 | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 5 | we encourage the Illinois Board of Higher Education, the | ||||||
| 6 | Illinois Board of Higher Education Student Advisory Committee, | ||||||
| 7 | and other student leaders, college officials, faculty, college | ||||||
| 8 | bookstores, and publishers to discuss ways that college | ||||||
| 9 | students may be better informed of these different textbook | ||||||
| 10 | options and how access to them can be increased, without | ||||||
| 11 | adversely impacting any existing textbook rental or already | ||||||
| 12 | established access or affordability programs available to | ||||||
| 13 | Illinois students; and be it further
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| 14 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | ||||||
| 15 | delivered to the Governor and to each member of the Illinois | ||||||
| 16 | General Assembly.
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