Around the U.S. NE region

• The Massachusetts House of Representatives passed a package on Wednesday to extend some pandemic-era policies, but excluded some transparency rules.
• Massachusetts Representative Edward Coppinger has filed a bill that would temporarily allow graduating students to stay in school for an extra year to make up disrupted learning time from the pandemic time.
• Rhode Island has received $7.2 million in federal funds to support the public health workforce coming out of the pandemic.