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NY A 2248

in committee

Enacts the college textbook affordability act

New York · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

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.

Introduced
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Status date
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Latest action
2026-01-07 — REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Sponsors

  • Angelo Santabarbaraprimary
  • William Coltoncosponsor
  • Joe DeStefanocosponsor

Committees

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Action timeline

  1. 2025-01-15

    REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION

    referral-committee

  2. 2026-01-07

    REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION

    referral-committee

Versions

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Votes

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Related bills

  • Prior session: A 8296
  • Prior session: A 2961not in this corpus
  • Prior session: A 2676
  • Prior session: A 2771not in this corpus

Official source

https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/bills/2025-2026/A2248?summary=&detail=

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