Legislation on Policy Theme 4 for EM
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POLICY THEME 4: Require publishers and/or bookstores to offer unbundled textbooks in addition to bundles for particular courses
LEGEND
SB: Senate Bill | HB: House Bill |
SR: Senate Resolution | HR: House Resolution |
AB: Assembly Bill | AR: Assembly Resolution |
SF: Senate File | HF: House File |
HCR: Concurrent Resolution | LB: Legislative Bill |
Proposed and Passed State Legislation (2004-2007)
compiled from ACSFA 2007
- AB 2477 (CA), signed into law 9/16/04, publishers must unbundle
- HR 6860 (CT), introduced 3/305, bookstores and publishers must unbundled
- HB 5145 (CT), introduced 1/4/07, public institutions must unbundled
- HB 4967 (IL), introduced 1/19/06, faculty or bookstore is required to order equal number of unbundled textbooks as bundled
- SB 1464 (IL), introduced 2/21/07, require board of Higher Ed and Illinois Community College Board to police affiliated bookstores on this issue
- HB 1262 (MA), introduced 1/26/05, bookstores and publishers must unbundled
- HB 1200 (MA), introduced 1/10/07
- SF 1314 (MN), introduced 2/26/07 & HF 1508 (MN), introduced 3/1/07, requires bookstores to stock equal number bundled and unbundled
- AR 271 (NJ), introduced 5/5/05, urge publishers to unbundled
- SB 151 (OH), introduced 4/24/07, prohibits bookstores from selling bundles unless unbundled is offered
- SB 365 (OR), introduced 1/15/07, sellers of bundles must offer unbundled components
- HB 1842 (PA), introduced 7/1/05, publishers must offer unbundled and retailers must offer unbundled versions unless books are custom
- HB 1257 (TN), introduced 2/12/07 & SB 2076 (TN), introduced 2/15/07, on-campus bookstores must offer unbundled EM
- HB 956 (TX), introduced 1/30/07
- HB 1478 (VA), requires faculty to inform bookstore when a bundled version is not necessary so that unbundled can be offered
- HB 3087 (WA), signed into law 3/15/06, a.k.a. SB 6699 (WA)
- HB 1224 (WA), introduced 1/15/07 & SB 5183 (WA), introduced 1/12/07, requires college and university bookstores to offer unbundled textbooks and publicly disclose costs to faculty, staff, and public
- HB 2606 (WV), introduced 2/23/05 & HB 3163 (WV), introduced 3/23/07, governing boards cannot require students to purchase bundled books, must offer unbundled
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