Section XXXX:  Violence Prevention Federal Reinvestment Trust Fund

Section XXXX. To enhance violence prevention services and decrease the disproportionate impact of violence in historically marginalized populations, there shall be established and set up on the books of the Commonwealth a separate fund to be known as the Violence Prevention Federal Reinvestment Trust Fund, in this section called the fund. There shall be credited to the fund revenues equal to the amount of federal financial participation received by the Commonwealth's General Fund for expenditures for evidence-based and/or evidence-informed violence prevention services and any other federal reimbursements, grants, premiums, gifts, interest or other contributions from any source received that are specifically designated to be credited to the fund. The secretary of health and human services shall be the trustee of the fund.

The secretary may expend, without further appropriation: not more than $25 million per year from the fund to expand and support evidence-based and/or evidence-informed violence prevention programming. For the purpose of accommodating timing discrepancies between the receipt of revenues and related expenditures, the fund may incur expenses, and the comptroller shall certify for payment, amounts not to exceed the most recent revenue estimate as certified by the MassHealth director, as reported in the state accounting system. Amounts credited to the fund shall not be subject to further appropriation and monies remaining in the fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the General Fund and shall be available for expenditure in subsequent fiscal years.

The secretary shall report annually, on or before XXX DATE, to the house and senate committees on ways and means and the house and senate chairs of the joint committee on public safety and homeland security, the joint committee on public health and the joint committee on education on the revenue and expenditure activity within the trust fund.

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