MA S2195

Bill

MA S2195

Relative to uniform financial aid information

Introduced
03/24/2016

In Committee
03/28/2016

Crossed Over
03/24/2016

Passed

Dead
07/31/2016

Introduced Session

189th General Court

Bill Summary

Relative to uniform financial aid information (Senate, No. 2195) (being the text of Senate, No. 2184, printed as amended)

AI Summary

This bill amends Chapter 15A of the General Laws to require institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth to provide an "accepted applicant" – defined as someone accepted into a full-time undergraduate program who has applied for financial aid, including transfer students – with a "uniform financial aid information shopping sheet." This shopping sheet, developed by federal agencies, is intended to help students make informed decisions about enrolling. Institutions must provide this document a reasonable time before the enrollment deadline, and can offer it electronically in a printable or mobile format, potentially including additional financial aid details as long as they use the defined terms. The Department of Higher Education is authorized to create regulations for this purpose, and these requirements will take effect for the 2018-2019 academic year and subsequent years.

Committee Categories

Budget and Finance

Sponsors (0)

No sponsors listed

Last Action

Read; and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means (on 03/28/2016)

Official Document

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/189/S2195

(8 Companion Bills)

Version:

Document Type	Source Location	Created
State Bill Page	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/189/S2195	03/29/2016
Bill	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/189/S2195.pdf	03/29/2016

Bill	Bill Name	Last Action	Type
H2016	House Rules governing the 2015-2016 legislative sessions	Order adopted, see H56	Similar To
H3333	Making appropriations for the fiscal year 2015 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects	Signed by the Governor, Chapter 10 of the Acts of 2015	Similar To
H3593	Opinion of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court to the House ofRepresentatives [on certain questions ofLaw pertaining to the origin of a "moneyBill" in relation to the generalAppropriation bill for fiscal year 2016]	Placed on file	Similar To
H4727	A communication from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (under the provisions of sections 1B, 1J and 1K of Chapter 69 of the General Laws) submitting amendments to 603 CMR 2.00, regulations on accountability and assistance for school districts and schools	Senate concurred	Similar To
H54	Annual report of the Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission (under sections 21, 102 and 103 of Chapter 32 of the General Laws) relative to the percentum change in the average cost-of-living as shown by the United States consumer price index for the year 2014 compared with such index for the year 2013	Accompanied a study order, see H4367	Similar To
S28	Making appropriations for the fiscal year 2015 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects	Text of S21, printed as amended	Similar To
S50	Providing for an employee retirement incentive program	Passed to be engrossed	Similar To
S8	Text of the Senate Rules as adopted by the Senate as the permanent rules of the Senate for 2015-2016.		Similar To

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