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Amendment #36 (Chandler) adopted -see Roll Call #257 (Yeas 39 to Nays 0)

S2842  ·  Senate roll call No. 257  ·  2020-07-29 19:45  ·  191st General Court (2019 to 2020)
39 yeas, 0 nays, 0 absent  ·  the Clerk's sheet (PDF)

Amendment 36, moved by Harriette L. Chandler  ·  Adopted

Ensuring students' access to academic transcripts

Ms. Chandler moves that the proposed new text be amended by inserting after section 7 the following section:- "SECTION 7A. Chapter 15A of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 19E the following section:- Section 19F. (a) A public institution of higher education under section 5 shall not withhold a student's academic transcripts solely due to the student's failure to pay a loan payment, fine, fee, tuition or other expense owed to the institution, except that a student's academic credits and grades may be withheld for a course for which the student's tuition and mandatory course fees are not paid in full. For a student paying on a per semester basis, a public institut…

yea · 39

An asterisk marks a vote the sheet records as entered after the roll closed. A member shown as "not linked" is a name on the sheet that did not resolve to exactly one member of the session's roster; it is left as printed rather than guessed.