H1442 • 2025

An Act relative to the expansion of the valedictorian tuition waiver program

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Sponsor: Bradley H. Jones, Jr.
Last action: 2026-03-05
Official status: Accompanied a study order, see H5179
Effective date: Not listed

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An Act relative to the expansion of the valedictorian tuition waiver program

An Act relative to the expansion of the valedictorian tuition waiver program By Representative Jones of North Reading, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

An Act relative to the expansion of the valedictorian tuition waiver program By Representative Jones of North Reading, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
1442) 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.

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Bill History

2026-03-05 House
Accompanied a study order, see H5179
2025-07-07 Joint
Hearing scheduled for 07/18/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-2
2025-02-27 House
Referred to the committee on Higher Education
2025-02-27 Senate
Senate concurred

Official Summary Text

An Act relative to the expansion of the valedictorian tuition waiver program
By Representative Jones of North Reading, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1442) 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.

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Bill H.1442

SECTION 1. Section 19 of chapter 15A of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2022 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting, after the seventh paragraph, the following new paragraph:-

The program shall provide tuition and mandatory fee waivers to any resident of the commonwealth who has been designated as a valedictorian by a public or private high school within the commonwealth. The tuition and mandatory fee waivers shall be provided to a student for not more than four years following enrollment as a student at a qualifying public institution. If the student designated as a valedictorian does not utilize the valedictorian tuition and fee waiver, the tuition and fee waiver shall not be offered to the salutatorian. The commonwealth, not the institutions of public higher education, shall bear the cost of such tuition and fee waivers for Massachusetts valedictorians.

SECTION 2. The tuition and fee waivers of this act shall take effect and be provided to Massachusetts valedictorians who graduate from a Massachusetts public or private high school beginning in or after 2025.

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