Bill > S2098

This bill amends Chapter 15A of the Massachusetts General Laws to expand eligibility for the Public Service Scholarship Program, which provides scholarships to students pursuing undergraduate studies at institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth. Specifically, the bill adds children of veterans whose service is credited to the Commonwealth and who were killed in action or died as a result of their service to the list of eligible recipients, alongside existing beneficiaries such as children and widowed spouses of police officers, firefighters, and correction officers killed in the line of duty, and children of prisoners of war or military personnel missing in action. The program, administered by a council, will award scholarships based on established guidelines, which will include provisions for waiving mandatory fees.