Proposed legislation could lower book prices
The Associated Students of Colorado, a statewide student government organization, will hold a meeting in Denver at noon Saturday to discuss legislation that will help lower textbook prices.
“The ASC are working on a textbook campaign and we are drafting a piece of legislation that we would like to have sponsored by some of the Colorado legislators,” said Hadley Brown, UCSU Tri-executive and vice chair of the ASC, at the UCSU Legislative Council meeting on Thursday, Nov. 8. “We would like to have it brought to session in this upcoming (state) legislature session.”
Brown said she is unsure which Colorado legislators will be approached to sponsor the bill, but that she is confident that it will at least get sponsored, if not passed, in the Colorado legislature.
Jesse Jensen, UCSU co-director of legislative affairs, wrote the legislation.
“(This legislation) will mandate new standards so professors have to actually know the cost of books,” Brown said. “It’s not a rule now, so a lot of times professors will order the books without knowing the costs.”
The legislation also contains a “de-bundling” regulation, which gives students the option of buying only the assigned book and not the workbook and CD that are sometimes bundled with it.
Both Brown and Jensen will have a table in the UMC set up in order to collect signatures in support of the textbook legislation every day next week.
ASC will also be working on implementing new institutionalized voter registration programs in higher education institutions throughout Colorado on Saturday.
Contact Campus Press Staff Writer Julie Ryan at julie.ryan@thecampuspress.com.
