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

  1. AB 2477 (CA)
    • Signed into law 9/16/04
    • Publishers must unbundle
  2. HR 6860 (CT)
    • Introduced 3/3/05
    • Bookstores and publishers must unbundled
  3. HB 5145 (CT)
    • Introduced 1/4/07
    • Public institutions must unbundled
  4. HB 4967 (IL)
    • Introduced 1/19/06
    • Faculty or bookstore is required to order equal number of unbundled textbooks as bundled
  5. SB 1464 (IL)
    • Introduced 2/21/07
    • Requires board of Higher Ed and Illinois Community College Board to police affiliated bookstores on this issue
  6. HB 1262 (MA)
    • Introduced 1/26/05
    • Bookstores and publishers must unbundled
  7. HB 1200 (MA)
    • Introduced 1/10/07
  8. SF 1314 / HF 1508 (MN)
    • Introduced as SF 1314 on 2/26/07
    • Introduced as HF 1508 on 3/1/07
    • Requires bookstores to stock equal number bundled and unbundled
  9. AR 271 (NJ)
    • Introduced 5/5/05
    • Urges publishers to unbundled
  10. SB 151 (OH)
    • Introduced 4/24/07
    • Prohibits bookstores from selling bundles unless unbundled is offered
  11. SB 365 (OR)
    • Introduced 1/15/07
    • Sellers of bundles must offer unbundled components
  12. HB 1842 (PA)
    • Introduced 7/1/05
    • Publishers must offer unbundled and retailers must offer unbundled versions unless books are custom
  13. HB 1257 / SB 2076 (TN)
    • Introduced as HB 1257 on 2/12/07
    • Introduced as SB 2076 on 2/15/07
    • On-campus bookstores must offer unbundled EM
  14. HB 956 (TX)
    • Introduced 1/30/07
  15. HB 1478 (VA)
    • Signed into law 4/4/06
    • Requires faculty to inform bookstore when a bundled version is not necessary so that unbundled can be offered
  16. HB 3087 / SB 6699 (WA)
    • Signed into law 3/15/06
  17. HB 1224 / SB 5183 (WA)
    • Introduced as HB 1224 on 1/15/07
    • Introduced as SB 5183 on 1/12/07
    • Requires college and university bookstores to offer unbundled textbooks and publicly disclose costs to faculty, staff, and public
  18. HB 2606 (WV)
    • Introduced 2/23/05
    • Governing boards cannot require students to purchase bundled books, must offer unbundled
  19. HB 3163 (WV)
    • Introduced 3/23/07
    • Similar language to HB 2606 (WV)


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