OSPIRG State Legislative Scorecard

HB 2919

Textbook Price Transparency

Textbooks are expensive - unnecessarily so. Over the past four decades, the price of books has increased three times faster than inflation, trailing shortly behind the cost of tuition itself. The hundreds of dollars students must spend on textbooks often comes out-of-pocket and can be a serious barrier to student success. HB 2919 requires colleges and universities to display the costs of textbooks when students register for classes so they know what their expenses will be before they enroll.