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H.1426/S.949 hearing spotlights debt, affordability and campus health in 'Green and Healthy' proposal
Summary
The committee heard testimony on H.1426/S.949, a companion bill described as focusing on green and healthy public colleges and universities and addressing deferred maintenance. Advocates pressed for a debt relief mechanism and for funding that would not be shifted to students by increased fees.
The Joint Committee on Higher Education took testimony on H.1426 (and S.949), an act introduced to support green and healthy public colleges and to address deferred maintenance across the state’s public higher education campuses.
Why it matters: Witnesses framed the bill as addressing two linked problems: aging campus facilities that impair teaching and learning, and the ways campus borrowing and campus‑level debt service have shifted costs onto students through fees. Testimony from faculty, unions and higher‑education advocates urged a structure that reduces campus debt burdens, directs any debt relief to…
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