Consolidated Amendment "I" to H3400

Veterans Services and Soldiers Homes

Fiscal Note: $51,258

Amendments from Veterans Services and Soldiers Homes: 53, 57, 89, 109, 144, 149, 170, 183, 341, 344, 405, 428, 431, 481, 495, 542, 548, 675 and 736.

Mr. Dempsey of Haverhill and others move to amend the bill in section 2, in item 1410-0010, by inserting after the words “such service” the following: “provided further, the department shall conduct a study of expanded treatment and residential services for veterans with head injuries and other trauma caused by Improvised Explosive Devices and other concussive weapons encountered on the modern battlefield; provided further, not less than $15,000 shall be expended for the Vietnam Veterans Moving Wall project in the metro west region; and provided further that not less than $25,000 be expended for the USS Massachusetts at Battle Ship Cove”; and further amend the item by striking out the figures “$2,362,778” and inserting in place thereof the figures “$2,402,778”.

And further amend the bill in section 2, in item 1410-0012, by inserting after the words “and their families” the following: “and provided further, that the department shall not reduce the amount allocated to a program or its successor from the amount appropriated in section 2 of chapter 131 of the acts of 2010” .

And further amend the bill in section 2, in item 1410-0250 by inserting after the words “homelessness services” the following:  “provided, that the department shall not reduce the amount allocated to a program or its successor from the amount appropriated in section 2 of chapter 131 of the acts of 2010”.

And further amend the bill in section 2, in item 1410-0630, by striking out the figures “$937,055” and inserting in place thereof the following figures: “$948,313”.