College Textbook Affordability Act of 2015: open educational resources.

Existing law, until September 1, 2020, establishes the College Textbook Affordability Act of 2015 to reduce costs for California State University and California community college students by encouraging faculty to accelerate the adoption of lower cost, high-quality, open educational resources, as defined. This bill would extend the operation of the College Textbook Affordability Act of 2015 by 5 years. Existing law appropriates, from specified funds, $5,000,000 to the Chancellor of the California State University to fund, among other things, the establishment and administration of the California Open Education Resources Council and the California Digital Open Source Library. Existing law specifies that $3,000,000 of those funds are reappropriated for allocation for the Open Educational Resources Adoption Incentive Program. Of the remaining $2,000,000, existing law specifies that up to $200,000 may be used for the California Open Online Library for Education for purposes of the Open Educational Resources Adoption Incentive Program until September 1, 2020. This bill would expressly authorize the use of the moneys appropriated for the California Open Online Library for Education for purposes of the Open Educational Resources Adoption Incentive Program for an additional 5 years.