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HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2083 FILED ON: 1/19/2023
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 1273
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PRESENTED BY:
Bradley H. Jones, Jr.
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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:
The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:
An Act relative to the expansion of the valedictorian tuition waiver program.
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PETITION OF:
NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :DATE ADDED:Bradley H. Jones, Jr.20th Middlesex1/17/2023Nicholas A. Boldyga3rd Hampden1/26/2023Susan Williams Gifford2nd Plymouth1/26/2023F. Jay Barrows1st Bristol1/26/2023Paul K. Frost7th Worcester1/31/2023Kimberly N. Ferguson1st Worcester2/1/2023 1 of 2
HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2083 FILED ON: 1/19/2023
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 1273
By Representative Jones of North Reading, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1273) of
Bradley H. Jones, Jr. and others relative to the expansion of the valedictorian tuition waiver
program in the public system of higher education. Higher Education.
[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE HOUSE, NO. 1344 OF 2021-2022.]
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court
(2023-2024)
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An Act relative to the expansion of the valedictorian tuition waiver program.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority
of the same, as follows:
1 SECTION 1. Section 19 of chapter 15A of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2020
2Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting, after the seventh paragraph, the following new
3paragraph:-
4 The program shall provide tuition and mandatory fee waivers to any resident of the
5commonwealth who has been designated as a valedictorian by a public or private high school
6within the commonwealth. The tuition and mandatory fee waivers shall be provided to a student
7for not more than four years following enrollment as a student at a qualifying public institution.
8If the student designated as a valedictorian does not utilize the valedictorian tuition and fee
9waiver, the tuition and fee waiver shall not be offered to the salutatorian. The commonwealth, 2 of 2
10not the institutions of public higher education, shall bear the cost of such tuition and fee waivers
11for Massachusetts valedictorians.
12 SECTION 2. The tuition and fee waivers of this act shall take effect and be provided to
13Massachusetts valedictorians who graduate from a Massachusetts public or private high school
14beginning in or after 2023.