If you are concerned or opposed to the creation of a Massachusetts Student Recovery Fund, please send a letter to your own legislators, and to the members of the Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure.
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Student Tuition
​Recovery Fund 
Contact Your Legislator

MASSACHUSETTS – S112 – An Act Establishing a Student Tuition Recovery Fund
Sponsor:  Senator Eileen Donoghue (D)

MASSACHUSETTS – H627– An Act Establishing a Student Tuition Recovery Fund 
Sponsor:  Rep. Jennifer Benson (D)

Legislative has been filed in Massachusetts to create a Student Recovery Fund.  This legislation would establish a student tuition recovery fund in Massachusetts. If passed, the legislation would: 

  • Require that private career schools make an initial payment of $2,500 into the fund;
 
  • Pay 0.25 percent of the school’s gross tuition and fees received by the school during the prior year in the second year; and 
 
  • Pay an amount determined by the attorney general not to exceed 0.5 percent of a school’s gross tuition and fees received by the school during the prior year.

Bills Filed 2017 Legislative Session

MASSACHUSETTS
MASSACHUSETTS  - S.112 – An Act Establishing a Student Tuition Recovery Fund
 
Sponsor:  Senator Eileen Donoghue (D)
 
Summary:  This measure would establish a student tuition recovery fund.
 
Status:  Referred to the Committee on
Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure

​Public Hearing 6.6.17 
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https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S112

Click here to read the NEPCSA Fact Sheet in opposition to S112
MASSACHUSETTS - S.694 - An Act to Require Disclosure of Conflicts of Interests in Academic Institutions
 
Sponsor:  Senator Jason Lewis (D)
 
Summary: This measure will require higher education institutions to maintain a written conflict-of-interest policy. The measure further requires faculty and staff of such an institution to  publicly disclose any financial relationship the individual has with an entity other than his or her primary employer.
 
Status: Public Hearing - 4/13/2017

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S694
CONNECTICUT
​CONNECTICUT H.B. 5705 - An Act Streamlining The Process For Out-Of-State Educators To Obtain Professional Certification
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Sponsor: Representative Susan Johnson (D)
 
Summary: This measure would establish a reciprocity certification program to allow teachers and administrators from Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York to work in Connecticut. 

Status:  Referred to Joint Committee on Education - 1/17/2017
 
https://www.cga.ct.gov/2017/TOB/h/pdf/2017HB-05705-R00-HB.pdf
 
CONNECTICUT H.B. 5717 - An Act Establishing A Tax Deduction For Student Loan Interest Paid
 
Sponsor: Representative Charles Ferraro (R)
 
Summary: This measure would establish a tax deduction against the personal income tax for the amount of student loan interest paid by the taxpayer.
 
Status:  Referred to Joint Committee on Finance, Revenue and Bonding – 1/17/17
 
https://www.cga.ct.gov/2017/TOB/h/pdf/2017HB-05717-R00-HB.pdf 
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​CONNECTICUT S.B. 570 - An Act Concerning Loan Information Provided To Students By Institutions Of Higher Education
 
Sponsor: Senator Art Linares (R)
 
Summary: This measure would require institutions of higher education to annually provide students who receive state financial aid with information regarding each student's loans.  
 
https://www.cga.ct.gov/2017/TOB/s/2017SB-00570-R01-SB.htm
 
Status:  Referred to Joint Committee on Higher Education and Employment Advancement - 3/14/2017
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW HAMPSHIRE H.B. 396 – An Act Relative To Student Assessment Data Privacy
 
Sponsor: Representative J.R. Hoell (R)
 
Summary: This measure stipulates that no personally identifiable data on student religion, political party, psychometric data, biometric information, juvenile delinquency records, criminal records, medical, psychological or dental information, birth dates, social security numbers, employment history, income level, and/or voting history shall be collected, tracked, housed, stored, reported or shared with the federal government, nor provided to for-profit corporations.
 
Status:  Lay on Table -3/9/17
 
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/lsr_search/billText.aspx?id=677&type=4 
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