debt-free education and other matters

HOUSE . . . . . . . . No. 5104

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, February 17, 2026.

The committee on Higher Education, to whom were referred the

petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1436) of Natalie M. Higgins,

Carmine Lawrence Gentile and others for legislation to establish a grant

program to pay the equivalent of tuition and mandatory fees to eligible