# Massachusetts H 5026: An Act ensuring students' access to academic transcripts

Massachusetts H 5026, An Act ensuring students' access to academic transcripts, is a 194th General Court (2025-2026) House bill sponsored by Joint Committee on Higher Education; status in committee, last action 2026-02-02 (Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-01).

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## Facts
- Bill: Massachusetts H 5026
- State: Massachusetts
- Session: 194th General Court (2025-2026)
- Title: An Act ensuring students' access to academic transcripts
- Status: in committee
- Chamber: House
- Introduced: 2026-02-02
- Last action: 2026-02-02, Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means
- Sponsor: Joint Committee on Higher Education
- Cosponsors: 8
- Subjects: Higher Education, House Ways and Means
- Touches household money: yes
- Roll calls: 1 (11 yes, 0 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 0

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview

No economic impacts identified for this bill.

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Joint Committee on Higher Education
- Cosponsor: Carmine Lawrence Gentile (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Kristin E. Kassner (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Margaret R. Scarsdale (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Natalie M. Higgins (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Patrick Joseph Kearney (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Rodney M. Elliott (Democratic), House
- Cosponsor: Tram T. Nguyen (Democratic), House

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-01-14 | committee | Committee Redraft: Should the new draft be reported favorably to the House? | pass | 11 | 0 |   |

## Actions (3)

- 2026-02-02: Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means (House)
- 2026-02-02: New draft of H1449 (House)
- 2026-02-02: Reported from the committee on Higher Education (House)

## Bill text

- As Filed: [PDF](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H5026.pdf)

## Related bills

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- H 5435: An Act authorizing the town of Topsfield to continue to employment of police chief Neal Hovey (passed senate)
- H 5515: An Act to increase the value of estates eligible for abatements pursuant to M.G.L. chapter 59, section 5, clauses seventeenth D and forty-first C in the town o… (passed house)
- H 4755: An Act amending the means tested senior citizen property tax exemption in the town of Sudbury (signed)
- H 3909: An Act authorizing the Provincetown year-round market rate rental housing trust to acquire year-round housing occupancy restrictions (signed)
- H 5520: An Act exempting George Patrinos from the maximum age requirement age for the position of firefighter in the town of Dudley (signed)

## Sources
- [As Filed (PDF)](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H5026.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H5026-194 (as of 2026-11-01).