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S244 • 2025

An Act promoting access to professional development programming in Massachusetts

An Act promoting access to professional development programming in Massachusetts

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Sponsor
Barry R. Finegold
Last action
2026-03-26
Official status
Accompanied a new draft, see S3000
Effective date
Not listed

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An Act promoting access to professional development programming in Massachusetts

An Act promoting access to professional development programming in Massachusetts By Mr.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act promoting access to professional development programming in Massachusetts By Mr.
  • Finegold, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No.
  • 244) of Barry R.
  • Finegold and Tram T.

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  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-03-26 Senate

    Accompanied a new draft, see S3000

  2. 2026-01-08 Senate

    Reporting date extended to Thursday March 5, 2026

  3. 2025-04-25 Joint

    Hearing rescheduled to 04/29/2025 from 10:00 AM-05:00 PM in B-1

  4. 2025-04-23 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 04/29/2025 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-1

  5. 2025-02-27 Senate

    Referred to the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure

  6. 2025-02-27 House

    House concurred

Official Summary Text

An Act promoting access to professional development programming in Massachusetts
By Mr. Finegold, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 244) of Barry R. Finegold and Tram T. Nguyen for legislation to further assist employees through professional development training. Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure.

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Bill S.244

SECTION 1. Subsection (a) of section 263 of chapter 112 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2022 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out the definition of “Private educational organization” and inserting in place thereof the following definition:-

''Private educational organization'', a non-public entity, including an individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, organization, trust or other legal entity or combination of such entities that maintains a place of business within the commonwealth or solicits business within the commonwealth from any location to provide classroom instruction, distance education, online education or any combination thereof.

SECTION 2. Subsection (c) of said section 263 of said chapter 112 is hereby amended by striking out clauses (ix) and (x) and inserting in place thereof the following 4 clauses:-

(ix) incidental training associated with the purchase of a product from a vendor, if the training is to familiarize the purchaser with its use and the purchaser is not awarded any form of a certificate or diploma for having received the training; (x) training programs with a duration of not more than 25 hours or a total cost of not more than $1,500; (xi) training programs delivered for the education and training of an entity’s employees for which all costs are paid by the entity and no fee or tuition is charged to the employees; or (xii) other programs designated by the division.

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