Bill Text: TX HB3652 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the creation of a state repository for open educational resources by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB3652 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3652-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 3652 | ||
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| relating to the creation of a state repository for open educational | ||
| resources by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 61.0670 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 61.0670. STATE REPOSITORY OF OPEN EDUCATIONAL | ||
| RESOURCES. (a) In this section, "open educational resource" has | ||
| the meaning assigned by Section 51.451. | ||
| (b) The board shall contract with a high-quality open | ||
| educational resource repository to develop and maintain a web | ||
| portal customized to meet the needs of individual institutions of | ||
| higher education, students, and others who may benefit from access | ||
| to open educational resources. | ||
| (c) Open educational resources available through the portal | ||
| must be searchable by course or learning outcome, program or field | ||
| of study, marketable skills, college readiness, and other topics as | ||
| determined by the board. | ||
| (d) The portal must provide access to repositories | ||
| maintaining a wide range of open educational resources, including | ||
| textbooks, full courses, course materials, modules, images, | ||
| videos, assessment software, and any other tools, materials, or | ||
| techniques used to support learning. | ||
| (e) Resources developed with state funds shall be made | ||
| available under a Creative Commons license and submitted for use as | ||
| an open educational resource through a repository available through | ||
| the portal. A publisher may submit instructional materials for | ||
| inclusion in a repository available through the portal. | ||
| (f) The board may request the assistance of the Learning | ||
| Technology Advisory Committee to establish, maintain, and market | ||
| the web portal required under this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than September 1, 2020, the Texas | ||
| Higher Education Coordinating Board shall develop the web portal | ||
| required under Section 61.0670, Education Code, as added by this | ||
| Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 3652 was passed by the House on May 7, | ||
| 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 6, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 3652 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
