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MAS411Intro
25%
For legislation to establish the MassGrant program to provide financial assistance to eligible residents enrolled in higher education. Education.
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2025-06-02
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAH1426Intro
25%
For legislation to address the deferred maintenance needs of public institutions of higher education and for the creation of a green and healthy public college and university building planning commission (including members of the General Court). High...
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2025-05-20
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAS949Intro
25%
For legislation to create a Green and Healthy Public College and University Building Planning Commission that will make recommendations for public higher education buildings relative to energy efficiency, spatial adequacy, life safety, accessibility,...
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2025-05-20
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAH54Intro
25%
To build resilient infrastructure to generate higher-ed transformation
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2025-05-20
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAH1424Intro
25%
Relative to higher education capital investments in gateway municipalities or abutting municipalities. Higher Education.
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2025-05-20
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAH4113Intro
25%
Relative to addressing sexual misconduct by certain higher education employees. Higher Education.
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2025-05-15
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAH1460Intro
25%
Relative to residential preference for financial aid at public institutions of higher education. Higher Education.
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2025-04-29
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAH1425Intro
25%
Relative to higher education admissions. Higher Education.
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2025-04-29
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAH1466Intro
25%
For legislation to establish a hunger-free campus grant program. Higher Education.
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2025-04-29
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAS921Intro
25%
For legislation to facilitate student financial assistance and establish the FAFSA Trust Fund. Higher Education.
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2025-04-29
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAH1430Intro
25%
Relative to college credits for AP courses. Higher Education.
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2025-04-29
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAS932Intro
25%
For legislation to allow the department of higher education to review the practice of requiring applicants to take a standardized college entrance aptitude test to gain admittance to an undergraduate degree program at a public institution of higher e...
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2025-04-29
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAS939Intro
25%
For legislation to establish the hunger-free campus initiative that would provide grants to institutions of public higher education to address student food insecurity and hunger. Higher Education.
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2025-04-29
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAS923Intro
25%
For legislation relative to college credits while attending high school. Higher Education.
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2025-04-29
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MAS943Intro
25%
For legislation to ban discriminatory admissions practices at higher education institutions. Higher Education.
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2025-04-29
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAH1467Intro
25%
For legislation to facilitate student financial assistance. Higher Education.
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2025-04-29
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAS944Intro
25%
For legislation relative to advance placement examinations to satisfy degree requirements. Higher Education.
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2025-04-29
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAH1441Intro
25%
Relative to the acceptance of Advanced Placement scores for college credit. Higher Education.
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2025-04-29
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAS920Intro
25%
For legislation to ensure tuition equity at the Stockbridge School of Agriculture. Higher Education.
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2025-04-29
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAH1458Intro
25%
Relative to admissions requirements to public institutions of higher education. Higher Education.
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2025-04-29
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MAH1432Intro
25%
Relative to advanced placement examinations and college credit. Higher Education.
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2025-04-29
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MAH1435Intro
25%
Relative to advanced placement examination for post-secondary level course credits. Higher Education.
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2025-04-29
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAH1455Intro
25%
Relative high schools providing and funding college programs. Higher Education.
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2025-04-29
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MAH1452Intro
25%
Relative to the consideration of familial relationships to graduates in applications to higher education institutions. Higher Education.
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2025-04-29
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MAS950Intro
25%
For legislation to require higher education institutions to issue an annual report to the attorney general and department of higher education on their prior year admissions preference. Higher Education.
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2025-04-29
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MAS928Intro
25%
For legislation to ban legacy preferences in higher education. Higher Education.
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2025-04-29
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAH4044Intro
25%
Relative to tuition and student loan reimbursement in gateway cities for certain physicians, dentists or nurses. Higher Education.
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2025-04-24
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAS218Intro
25%
For legislation relative to Social Work Uplifting Practices and Exam Removal (“The SUPER Act”). Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure.
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2025-04-22
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAH3948Intro
25%
For legislation to establish rights and career advancement for contingent faculty in public higher education. Higher Education.
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2025-04-03
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAH1367Intro
25%
Relative to Title XIX federal financial participation for certain MassHealth covered services for individuals attending programs at Massachusetts state colleges and universities. Health Care Financing.
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2025-04-03
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAH1464Intro
25%
Relative to the use of the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center by members of the abutting residential community and students, faculty, staff, and alumni at Roxbury Community College. Higher Education.
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2025-02-27
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAS925Intro
25%
For legislation to support access to vocational schools by creating MassReconnect, a scholarship program to provide financial assistance to students from the commonwealth. Higher Education.
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2025-02-27
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MAH1445Intro
25%
Relative to the economic and educational impacts of establishing public private partnerships between higher educational institutions and private corporations. Higher Education.
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2025-02-27
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAH1456Intro
25%
Relative to community colleges and the career technical initiative. Higher Education.
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2025-02-27
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAS938Intro
25%
For legislation to require disclosure of conflicts of interests in academic institutions. Higher Education.
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2025-02-27
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAS942Intro
25%
For legislation to establish a reduce fare pilot program for students aboard South Coast Rail. Higher Education.
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2025-02-27
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAH1434Intro
25%
For legislation to establish a public higher education contingent faculty reform pilot program. Higher Education.
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2025-02-27
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAH1462Intro
25%
By Representative Tarsky of Needham, a petition of Joshua Tarsky and Rebecca L. Rausch that certain public institutions of higher education create college campus recovery-focused housing programs to provide alcohol and drug-free environments for stud...
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2025-02-27
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAS929Intro
25%
For legislation to guarantee debt-free public higher education. Higher Education.
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2025-02-27
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAS918Intro
25%
For legislation to expand access to higher education tuition and fee waivers for adopted foster children. Higher Education.
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2025-02-27
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAH1422Intro
25%
Relative to expanding the in-state higher education tuition and fee waiver program. Higher Education.
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2025-02-27
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAH1459Intro
25%
For legislation to establish the MassGrant program to provide financial assistance to eligible residents enrolled at an eligible institution. Higher Education.
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2025-02-27
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAH1449Intro
25%
Relative to students' access to academic transcripts at institutions of higher education. Higher Education.
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2025-02-27
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAH1461Intro
25%
For legislation to make certain nursing students eligible for the MassReconnect scholarship program. Higher Education.
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2025-02-27
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAS941Intro
25%
For legislation to rename the Center for African, Caribbean & Community Development at the University of Massachusetts Boston as the Senator Bill Owens Center. Higher Education.
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2025-02-27
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAH1444Intro
25%
Relative to financial literacy counseling for students accepted at public institutions of higher education. Higher Education.
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2025-02-27
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAS934Intro
25%
For legislation to establish the public higher education faculty advancement pilot program. Higher Education.
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2025-02-27
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAH1446Intro
25%
Relative to college student immunization for meningococcal disease. Higher Education.
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2025-02-27
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAS927Intro
25%
For legislation to require higher educational institutions to provide certain information to students applying for or changing their major field of study. Higher Education.
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2025-02-27
To Joint Higher Education Committee
MAH1436Intro
25%
For legislation to establish a grant program to pay the equivalent of tuition and mandatory fees to eligible students at Massachusetts public higher education institutions. Higher Education.
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2025-02-27
To Joint Higher Education Committee
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