By: Turner of Tarrant, et al. H.B. No. 3652
(Senate Sponsor - Creighton, West)
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 7, 2019;
May 10, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Higher
Education; May 19, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 19, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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.
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