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Lesser, AG tout new student loan borrower bill of rights "> Sen. Eric Lesser, D-Longmeadow, and Attorney General Maura Healey speak Thursday about the state’s recently implemented Student Loan Borrower Bill of Rights. SCREENSHOT Published: 7/15/2021 9:25:32 PM BOSTON — A bill creating a Student Loan Borrower Bill of Rights and an ombudsman’s office tasked with protecting those borrowers has gone into effect in Massachusetts. State Sen. Eric Lesser, D-Longmeadow, was an author of that bill, and six years after he first proposed the legislation it passed in January as part of the state Legislature’s $627M economic development bill. On July 1, Arwen Thoman was named the state’s first student loan ombudsman, whose work will be conducted out of the attorney general’s office.