# Massachusetts S 2962: An Act to build resilient infrastructure to generate higher-ed transformation

Massachusetts S 2962, An Act to build resilient infrastructure to generate higher-ed transformation, is a 194th General Court (2025-2026) Senate bill sponsored by Senate Committee on Ways and Means; status passed senate, last action 2026-02-26 (See H4769) (as of 2026-11-01).

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## Facts
- Bill: Massachusetts S 2962
- State: Massachusetts
- Session: 194th General Court (2025-2026)
- Title: An Act to build resilient infrastructure to generate higher-ed transformation
- Status: passed senate
- Chamber: Senate
- Introduced: 2026-02-19
- Last action: 2026-02-26, See H4769
- Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means
- Cosponsors: 0
- Subjects: Senate Ways and Means
- Touches household money: no
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 0

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview

No economic impacts identified for this bill.

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Senate Committee on Ways and Means

## Actions (47)

- 2026-02-26: See H4769 (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Substituted, as amended, for H4769 (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Reprinted, as amended, see S2993 (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #34 (Rodrigues) adopted (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #17 (Mark) adopted (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #16 (Mark) adopted (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #49 (Rush) adopted (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #48 (Rush) adopted (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #47 (Rush) adopted (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #46 (Tarr) rejected (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #40 (Collins) adopted (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #45 (Tarr) rejected -see Roll Call #139 (Yeas 5 to Nays 32) (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #44 (Tarr) rejected (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #42 (Tarr) rejected (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #39 (Tarr) rejected (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #23 (Montigny) adopted (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #33 (Tarr) rejected -see Roll Call #138 (Yeas 6 to Nays 31) (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #30 (Tarr) adopted (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #29 (Tarr) adopted (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #50 (Rush) rejected (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #41 (Collins) rejected (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #37 (Miranda) rejected (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #36 (Miranda) adopted (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #35 (Cyr) rejected (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #31 (Lovely) adopted (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #27 (Finegold) adopted (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #26 (Cyr) adopted (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #25 (Kennedy) adopted (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #24 (Kennedy) adopted (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #22 (Cyr) adopted (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #21 (Gómez) adopted (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #19 (Oliveira) rejected (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #18 (Fernandes) adopted (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #15 (Creem) adopted (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #14 (Creem) adopted (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #13 (Driscoll) adopted (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #11 (Finegold) adopted (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #10 (Keenan) rejected (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #8 (Cronin) rejected (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #7 (Cronin) adopted (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #6 (Crighton) adopted (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #5 (Moore) rejected (Senate)
- 2026-02-26: Amendment #3 (Moore) adopted (Senate)
- 2026-02-19: Placed in the Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 26, 2026 (Senate)
- 2026-02-19: Order relative to subject matter adopted (Senate)
- 2026-02-19: Recommended new text for H4769 (Senate)
- 2026-02-19: Reported from the committee on Senate Ways and Means (Senate)

## Bill text

- As Filed: [PDF](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S2962.pdf)

## Related bills

- H 4585: An Act authorizing the town of Auburn to offer expanded senior property tax abatements (signed)
- 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/S2962.pdf)

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- [H 5515: An Act to increase the value of estates eligible for abatements pursuant to M.G…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H5515-194)
- [H 4755: An Act amending the means tested senior citizen property tax exemption in the t…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MA-H4755-194)
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