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The Massachusetts Senate today unanimously passed the BRIGHT Act, a $3.28 billion bond bill that will invest in upgrades to public higher education campuses across Massachusetts and strengthen the learning experiences of students at community colleges, state universities, and UMass campuses.

The Massachusetts Senate passed legislation today to support neighborhood bodegas, convenience stores, and small family-owned grocery shops by modernizing the unit pricing law.

An Act updating the unit pricing exemption threshold supports neighborhood markets, bodegas, convenience stores, and family-owned grocery shops by ensuring that an exemption from unit pricing requirements continues to apply as intended to smaller establishments.

The Senate Committee on Ways and Means advanced legislation today to support neighborhood markets, bodegas, convenience stores, and family-owned grocery shops across Massachusetts by ensuring that smaller establishments will continue to be covered by an exemption from unit pricing.

The Senate Committee on Ways and Means today voted to advance the BRIGHT Act, a $3.28 billion bond bill that supports public higher education students’ access to modernized infrastructure and facilities at Massachusetts’ community colleges, state universities, and UMass campuses.

An Act to build resilient infrastructure to generate higher-ed transformation, known as the BRIGHT Act, will enable Massachusetts’ public higher education campuses to repair aging infrastructure, modernize lab and research space, and plan for the future through development of unused property.

Today, the Massachusetts Senate took action to give everyone a fair shot at access to housing. Illegal discrimination continues to hamper many homebuyers’ and renters’ ability to find a home. The legislation—S.2947, An Act regarding fair housing practices in the Commonwealth—takes aim at discrimination in the housing market by mandating fair housing training for all real estate agents and strengthening state enforcement of fair housing law.

(BOSTON—2/12/2026) The Massachusetts Senate acted today to strengthen consumer rights for people who buy new and used vehicles by expanding the state’s car buyer protection law, increasing the mileage for used car warranties, and strengthening the bonds that give relief to victims of auto sale fraud.