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| 1 | - | Substitute House Bill No. 6117 | |
| 1 | + | General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 6117 | |
| 2 | + | January Session, 2015 *_____HB06117HED___031315____* | |
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| 3 | - | Special Act No. 15-18 | |
| 4 | + | General Assembly | |
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| 6 | + | Substitute Bill No. 6117 | |
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| 8 | + | January Session, 2015 | |
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| 10 | + | *_____HB06117HED___031315____* | |
| 4 | 11 | ||
| 5 | 12 | AN ACT CONCERNING THE USE OF DIGITAL OPEN-SOURCE TEXTBOOKS IN HIGHER EDUCATION. | |
| 6 | 13 | ||
| 7 | 14 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: | |
| 8 | 15 | ||
| 9 | - | Section 1. (Effective July 1, 2015) (a) For purposes of this section and | |
| 16 | + | Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2015) (a) Not later than September 1, 2015, the Board of Regents for Higher Education, in collaboration with the Board of Trustees for The University of Connecticut and the Connecticut Conference of Independent Colleges, shall establish an open-source textbook consortium of not less than five institutions of higher education, including, but not limited to, The University of Connecticut, one state university, one regional community-technical college, Charter Oak State College and one independent institution of higher education. The consortium shall annually (1) assess the use of high-quality and affordable digital open-source textbooks and related materials to lower the cost of higher education to students, (2) promote the use of and access to open-source textbooks, and (3) collaborate for the purposes of developing and acquiring open-source textbooks. For purposes of this section, "open-source textbooks" means a college-level textbook licensed under an open copyright license and made available on an Internet web site to be freely used by students, faculty and members of the public. | |
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| 11 | - | ( | |
| 18 | + | (b) Not later than January 1, 2016, and annually thereafter, the consortium of public institutions of higher education shall submit a report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes, to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to higher education regarding its duties described in subsection (a) of this section. | |
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| 13 | - | (2) "Open educational resources" includes the full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software and other similar teaching, learning and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits the free use and repurposing of such resources; | |
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| 15 | - | (3) "Open license" means a world-wide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual and irrevocable copyright license granting the public permission to access, reproduce, publicly perform, publicly display, adapt, distribute and otherwise use, for any purpose, the work and adaptations of such work when credit or acknowledgment is given to any designated author of such work; and | |
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| 17 | - | (4) "Open-source textbook" means a college-level textbook licensed under an open license and made available on an Internet web site to be used by students, faculty and members of the public on an unlimited basis at minimal or no cost. | |
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| 19 | - | (b) The Board of Regents for Higher Education and The University of Connecticut shall each establish an open-source textbook pilot program to (1) assess the use of high-quality digital open-source textbooks, and (2) promote the use of and access to open-source textbooks within their respective constituent units. The programming for such pilot programs, shall include, but not be limited to, seminars and workshops on awareness and implementation of open-source textbooks and open educational resources for faculty and staff of the institutions of higher education under the jurisdiction of such constituent units and workshops on supportive open educational resources policy and administration for academic leaders of such institutions. The Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium may share such programming with its private members at a cost to be determined by said consortium. | |
| 23 | + | This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: | |
| 24 | + | Section 1 July 1, 2015 New section | |
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| 26 | + | This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: | |
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| 28 | + | Section 1 | |
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| 30 | + | July 1, 2015 | |
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| 32 | + | New section | |
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| 34 | + | Statement of Legislative Commissioners: | |
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| 31 | - | ( | |
| 36 | + | In Subsec (a), "2016" was changed to "2015" for accuracy. | |
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| 33 | - | (4) One faculty member of Charter Oak State College and one student of an independent institution of higher education in the state who represents a formally recognized student organization, who shall be appointed by the majority leader of the Senate; | |
| 34 | 38 | ||
| 35 | - | (5) One faculty member and one administrator of the Connecticut State University System, who shall be appointed by the minority leader of the House of Representatives; | |
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| 37 | - | ||
| 40 | + | HED Joint Favorable Subst. -LCO | |
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| 42 | + | HED | |
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| 41 | - | (8) The president of The University of Connecticut, or the president's designee; | |
| 42 | - | ||
| 43 | - | (9) The executive director of the Office of Higher Education, or the executive director's designee; | |
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| 45 | - | (10) The chief academic officer of The University of Connecticut, or the chief academic officer's designee; and | |
| 46 | - | ||
| 47 | - | (11) The chief academic officer of the Board of Regents for Higher Education, or the chief academic officer's designee. | |
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| 49 | - | (c) All appointments to the task force shall be made not later than thirty days after the effective date of this section. Any vacancy shall be filled by the appointing authority. | |
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| 51 | - | (d) The executive director of the Office of Higher Education, or the executive director's designee, shall schedule the first meeting of the task force, which shall be held not later than sixty days after the effective date of this section. The members of the task force shall select the chairpersons of the task force from among the members of the task force. One such chairperson shall be from an institution of higher education under the jurisdiction of the Board of Regents for Higher Education, and the other such chairperson shall be from The University of Connecticut. | |
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| 53 | - | (e) The administrative staff of the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to higher education shall serve as administrative staff of the task force. | |
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| 55 | - | (f) Not later than October 1, 2016, the task force shall submit a report on its findings and recommendations to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to higher education, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes. The task force shall terminate on the date that it submits such report or October 1, 2016, whichever is earlier. | |
| 44 | + | Joint Favorable Subst. -LCO |