This performance included adoption of 400 bills in areas requiring major attention following decades of inaction by the legislatures predecessors. These are some of the highlights of that record. In the field of education the legislature adopted the largest school aid bill in history. It approved $206.5 million. a $71 million increase over the previous year. It created a new Statesupported college known as the Saginaw Bay State College. The legislature voted a $41 million increase for higher education. It established experimental summer classes for children of migrant workers. For the senior citizens. the legislature passed homestead tax exemption. It removed lien provisions from aid to aged and medical assistance to aged.