A bill to amend title VII of the Education Amendments of 1974 to provide for a program of distribution of inexpensive books to schoolchildren.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Authorizes the Commission of Education to contract with a nonprofit or public organization, whose main aim is to motivate children to read, to pay to a publisher or local book distributor 50 percent of the cost to the organization for books for school children in that locality. Authorizes to be appropriated specified sums for fiscal years 1976, 1977, and 1978 to carry out the purposes of this Act.…