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Ch. 295 2007 Laws of Maryland
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Services, with the assistance of the Senate Education, Health, and Environmental
Affairs Committee and the House Committee on Ways and Means, shall study and
compile information on:
(1) retail prices of textbooks for higher education students in the State,
including average and median prices for undergraduate, graduate, and community
college student textbooks;
(2) factors that impact retail prices of textbooks, including:
(i) how professors choose textbooks for their classes;
(ii) the amount retail booksellers increase retail prices above
publishers' list prices:
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(iii) publishers' methods of setting list prices:
(iv) barriers to competition; and
(v) publishers' methods of marketing textbooks to professors;
(3) the advantages and disadvantages of posting textbook information
online as proposed by Senate Bill 166 from the 2007 Legislative Session: and
(4) the advantages and disadvantages of requiring tuition to cover the
cost of textbooks as proposed by Senate Bill 785 from the 2007 Legislative Session.
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 2007. It shall remain effective; for a period of 2 years and, at the end of June 30,
2009, with no further action required by the General Assembly, this Act shall be
abrogated and of no further force and effect.
Approved by the Governor, May 8, 2007.
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CHAPTER 296
(Senate Bill 525)
AN ACT concerning
Higher Education - Dual Enrollment Grant Program
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