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HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3444 FILED ON: 1/17/2025
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PRESENTED BY:
Adrianne Pusateri Ramos and Dawne Shand
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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 studying the financing of chapter 74 vocational-technical and agricultural school capital
improvements.
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PETITION OF:
NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :DATE ADDED:Adrianne Pusateri Ramos14th Essex1/17/2025Dawne Shand1st Essex1/17/2025 1 of 2
HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3444 FILED ON: 1/17/2025
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By Representatives Ramos of North Andover and Shand of Newburyport, a petition
(accompanied by bill, House, No. 676) of Adrianne Pusateri Ramos and Dawne Shand that the
Executive Office of Education study the financing of capital improvements in facilities providing
primarily vocational-technical education or agricultural education. Education.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth General Court
(2025-2026)
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An Act studying the financing of chapter 74 vocational-technical and agricultural school capital
improvements.
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. The executive office of education, in coordination with the Massachusetts
2School Building Authority established pursuant to section 1A of chapter 70B of the General
3Laws, shall conduct a study into the current state of financing related to capital improvements in
4facilities providing primarily vocational-technical education or agricultural education, as defined
5in section 2 of chapter 74 of the General Laws. The study shall include, but not be limited to, an
6analysis of: (i) the feasibility of establishing a tiered reimbursement formula that separately
7considers the costs and inherent capital needs of: (A) elementary and middle schools; (B)
8comprehensive high schools; and (C) vocational-technical or agricultural schools; (ii) summary
9information related to the fiscal impacts on cities or towns which are served by a regional
10vocational-technical or agricultural school established pursuant to section 4 of said chapter 74 of
11the General Laws and which have undertaken a project of capital improvement in the preceding 2 of 2
125 years, whether such project received any financial assistance from the Massachusetts School
13Building Authority; (iii) campaign finance reporting obligations pursuant to any general or
14special law or association regulations, rules or guidelines applicable to local approval for capital
15projects impacting a vocational-technical or agricultural school, including, but not limited to: (A)
16whether reported expenditures align with reasonably observed campaign activities; and (B)
17whether there are disparate expenditures reported related to capital projects involving vocational-
18technical or agricultural schools and comparable capital projects involving comprehensive high
19schools. As part of the study, the office shall, as needed, consult with the department of
20elementary and secondary education, the department of labor and workforce development as
21relates to current labor rates in the construction industry, the department of agricultural resources
22as related to current workforce needs in the agricultural sector and the office of campaign and
23political finance. The office shall report on its findings and submit any recommendations to the
24Massachusetts School Building Authority, the clerks of the house of representatives and the
25senate, the joint committee on education and the joint committee on election laws not later than 6
26months after enactment; provided, however, that the secretary of education may grant up to 1
27extension of not more than 3 months.
28 SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon enactment.