HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 913        FILED ON: 1/14/2025

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 697

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Margaret R. Scarsdale and Kristin E. Kassner

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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 relative to full funding of regional school district transportation.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Date Added:

Margaret R. Scarsdale

1st Middlesex

1/14/2025

Kristin E. Kassner

2nd Essex

1/14/2025

Lindsay N. Sabadosa

1st Hampshire

1/27/2025

Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr.

12th Hampden

1/28/2025

Vanna Howard

17th Middlesex

1/29/2025

Michael D. Brady

Second Plymouth and Norfolk

1/30/2025

Christopher Richard Flanagan

1st Barnstable

1/30/2025

Rodney M. Elliott

16th Middlesex

1/31/2025

Danillo A. Sena

37th Middlesex

1/31/2025

Brian W. Murray

10th Worcester

2/3/2025

Paul McMurtry

11th Norfolk

2/6/2025

Erika Uyterhoeven

27th Middlesex

2/6/2025

Simon Cataldo

14th Middlesex

2/13/2025

Jacob R. Oliveira

Hampden, Hampshire and Worcester

2/13/2025

Natalie M. Higgins

4th Worcester

2/13/2025

Donald R. Berthiaume, Jr.

5th Worcester

2/13/2025

John J. Marsi

6th Worcester

3/3/2025

Bruce E. Tarr

First Essex and Middlesex

3/3/2025

James B. Eldridge

Middlesex and Worcester

3/3/2025

James C. Arena-DeRosa

8th Middlesex

3/3/2025

Tara T. Hong

18th Middlesex

3/11/2025

David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf

17th Worcester

3/11/2025

Jonathan D. Zlotnik

2nd Worcester

4/13/2025

Susannah M. Whipps

2nd Franklin

4/13/2025

Priscila S. Sousa

6th Middlesex

4/13/2025

Mindy Domb

3rd Hampshire

4/13/2025

Mike Connolly

26th Middlesex

4/13/2025

John Barrett, III

1st Berkshire

4/13/2025

Edward J. Kennedy

First Middlesex

4/17/2025


HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 913        FILED ON: 1/14/2025

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 697

By Representatives Scarsdale of Pepperell and Kassner of Hamilton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 697) of Margaret R. Scarsdale, Kristin E. Kassner and others relative to full funding of regional school district transportation.  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 relative to full funding of regional school district transportation.

 

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

Notwithstanding section 7H of chapter 29 of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, effective for fiscal year two thousand and twenty-six and in subsequent fiscal years, the department of elementary and secondary education shall annually submit a request to the general court for an appropriation that complies with the commonwealth’s total funding obligation under section 16C of chapter 71 of the General Laws.