HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3173        FILED ON: 1/20/2023

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1285

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

David M. Rogers

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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 establishing a fund to further educational opportunities for caregivers to adults with disabilities.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Date Added:

David M. Rogers

24th Middlesex

1/20/2023

Sean Garballey

23rd Middlesex

1/23/2023

Jack Patrick Lewis

7th Middlesex

1/25/2023

Joanne M. Comerford

Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester

1/26/2023

David Paul Linsky

5th Middlesex

1/26/2023

Michael D. Brady

Second Plymouth and Norfolk

1/26/2023

Mathew J. Muratore

1st Plymouth

1/26/2023

Michelle L. Ciccolo

15th Middlesex

1/26/2023

Samantha Montaño

15th Suffolk

1/26/2023

Susannah M. Whipps

2nd Franklin

1/26/2023

Josh S. Cutler

6th Plymouth

1/26/2023

Patrick M. O'Connor

First Plymouth and Norfolk

1/26/2023

Kenneth I. Gordon

21st Middlesex

1/27/2023

Carmine Lawrence Gentile

13th Middlesex

1/27/2023

Steven S. Howitt

4th Bristol

1/30/2023

David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf

17th Worcester

1/31/2023

John J. Lawn, Jr.

10th Middlesex

1/31/2023

Steven Owens

29th Middlesex

1/31/2023

Michael P. Kushmerek

3rd Worcester

2/1/2023

Kay Khan

11th Middlesex

2/1/2023

Tackey Chan

2nd Norfolk

2/1/2023

Lindsay N. Sabadosa

1st Hampshire

2/1/2023

Hannah Kane

11th Worcester

2/2/2023

William C. Galvin

6th Norfolk

2/6/2023

James C. Arena-DeRosa

8th Middlesex

2/6/2023

Natalie M. Higgins

4th Worcester

2/6/2023

Thomas M. Stanley

9th Middlesex

2/7/2023

Paul McMurtry

11th Norfolk

2/8/2023

Frank A. Moran

17th Essex

2/8/2023

Jason M. Lewis

Fifth Middlesex

2/8/2023

Patrick Joseph Kearney

4th Plymouth

2/9/2023

Rodney M. Elliott

16th Middlesex

2/10/2023

James B. Eldridge

Middlesex and Worcester

2/10/2023

Rob Consalvo

14th Suffolk

2/14/2023

Mindy Domb

3rd Hampshire

2/15/2023

Denise C. Garlick

13th Norfolk

2/15/2023

James Arciero

2nd Middlesex

2/15/2023

Margaret R. Scarsdale

1st Middlesex

2/16/2023

David Allen Robertson

19th Middlesex

2/16/2023

Adrian C. Madaro

1st Suffolk

2/21/2023

Kate Lipper-Garabedian

32nd Middlesex

2/22/2023

Simon Cataldo

14th Middlesex

2/23/2023

Danillo A. Sena

37th Middlesex

2/23/2023

Todd M. Smola

1st Hampden

2/27/2023

Daniel Cahill

10th Essex

2/27/2023

Brian W. Murray

10th Worcester

3/7/2023

Russell E. Holmes

6th Suffolk

3/10/2023

Kevin G. Honan

17th Suffolk

3/14/2023

Erika Uyterhoeven

27th Middlesex

3/20/2023

Tommy Vitolo

15th Norfolk

3/30/2023

Tram T. Nguyen

18th Essex

4/17/2023

Norman J. Orrall

12th Bristol

4/25/2023

Vanna Howard

17th Middlesex

5/9/2023

Jacob R. Oliveira

Hampden, Hampshire and Worcester

1/10/2024


HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3173        FILED ON: 1/20/2023

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1285

By Representative Rogers of Cambridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1285) of David M. Rogers and others for legislation to establish within the Board of Higher Education a fund to further educational opportunities for caregivers to adults with disabilities.  Higher Education.

 

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 establishing a fund to further educational opportunities for caregivers to adults with disabilities.

 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. Chapter 29 of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding the following section:- Section 2RRRRR. (a) There shall be established within the board of higher education, hereinafter the board, a separate fund to be known as the Caregiver to Adults with Disabilities Fund. The fund shall be credited with: (1) revenue from appropriations or other money authorized by the general court and specifically designated to be credited to the fund; (2) interest earned on such revenue; and (3) funds from public and private sources and other gifts, grants and donations. All amounts credited to the fund shall be used solely for activities and expenditures consistent with the public purpose of the fund as set forth in subsection (b), including the ordinary and necessary expenses of administration and operation associated with the fund. All amounts credited to the fund shall be held in trust and shall be available for expenditure, without further appropriation, by the board. Any unexpended balance in the fund at the close of a fiscal year shall remain in the fund and shall be available for expenditure in subsequent fiscal years.

Annually, not later than December 1, the board shall issue a report to the clerks of the house of representatives and the senate, the chairs of the house and senate committees on ways and means, the chairs of the joint committee on education and the chairs of the joint committee on children, families and persons with disabilities on the fund’s activities including, but not limited to, amounts credited to the fund, amounts expended from the fund and any unexpended balance.

(b) The board shall make expenditures from the fund for the purpose of furthering the educational opportunities of those who serve as caregivers to adults with disabilities by subsidizing tuition and fees for community college courses at eligible postsecondary institutions.

(c) The board shall promulgate regulations to effectuate the purposes of this section.

SECTION 2. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, not later than 14 days after the effective date of this act, the state comptroller shall transfer from the General Fund $4,125,000 to the Caregiver to Adults with Disabilities Fund established in section 46 of chapter 15A.