Amendment #259 to H4100

Human Services Salary Reserve

Representatives Linsky of Natick, Dwyer of Woburn, Donato of Medford, Chan of Quincy, Scibak of South Hadley, Durant of Spencer, Conroy of Wayland, Khan of Newton, Kocot of Northampton, Balser of Newton, Fernandes of Milford, McMurtry of Dedham, Ross of Attleboro, Farley-Bouvier of Pittsfield, Walsh of Framingham, Walsh of Boston, Murphy of Burlington, Fallon of Malden, Nangle of Lowell, Sannicandro of Ashland, Schmid of Westport, Parisella of Beverly, Puppolo of Springfield, Cabral of New Bedford, Hecht of Watertown, Kaufman of Lexington, Fresolo of Worcester, DiNatale of Fitchburg, Provost of Somerville, Garballey of Arlington, Canavan of Brockton, Cantwell of Marshfield, Sánchez of Boston, Pignatelli of Lenox, Keenan of Salem, Peisch of Wellesley, Madden of Nantucket, Stanley of Waltham, Ayers of Quincy, Humason of Westfield, Aguiar of Fall River, Swan of Springfield, O'Day of West Boylston, Beaton of Shrewsbury, Timilty of Milton, Coakley-Rivera of Springfield, Andrews of Orange, Galvin of Canton, Hogan of Stow, Kafka of Stoughton, Kane of Holyoke, Rosa of Leominster, Spiliotis of Peabody, Mark of Hancock, Sciortino of Medford, Winslow of Norfolk, Malia of Boston, Straus of Mattapoisett, Henriquez of Boston, Scaccia of Boston, Finn of West Springfield, Peterson of Grafton, Lewis of Winchester, Ashe of Longmeadow, Gobi of Spencer, Smizik of Brookline, Murphy of Weymouth, Garlick of Needham, Collins of Boston, Calter of Kingston, Holmes of Boston, Markey of Dartmouth, Reinstein of Revere and Fennell of Lynn move to amend the bill in section 2 by inserting after item 1599-4804 the following item:

“1599-6901  For a reserve to adjust the wages, compensation or salary and associated employee-related costs to personnel earning less than $40,000 in annual compensation who are employed by private human service providers that deliver human and social services under contracts with departments within the executive office of health and human services and the executive office of elder affairs; provided, that home care workers shall be eligible for funding from this appropriation; provided further, that workers from shelters and programs that serve homeless individuals and families that were previously contracted through the Department of Transitional Assistance and the Department of Public Health currently contracted with DHCD and direct care workers that serve homeless veterans through the Dept. of Veterans Affairs shall be eligible for funding from this appropriation; provided further, that the secretary of administration and finance may allocate the funds appropriated in this item to the departments in order to implement this initiative; provided further, that the executive office of health and human services shall condition the expenditure of appropriation upon assurances that the funds shall be used solely for the purposes of equal percentage adjustments to wages, compensation or salary; provided further, that not later than January 15, 2013, the executive office of health and human services shall submit to the house and senate committees on ways and means a report delineating the number of employees, by job title and average salary, receiving the adjustment in fiscal year 2013 and the average percentage adjustment funded herein; provided further, that the report shall also include, for each contract scheduled to receive any allocation from this item in each such department, the total payroll expenditures in each contract for the categories of personnel scheduled to receive the adjustments; provided further, that no funds from this item shall be allocated to special education programs under chapter 71B of the General Laws, contracts for early education and care services or programs for which payment rates are negotiated and paid as class rates as established by the division of health care finance and policy; provided further, that no funds shall be allocated from this item to contracts funded exclusively by federal grants as delineated in section 2D; provided further, that the total fiscal year 2013 costs of salary adjustments and any other associated employee costs authorized there under shall not exceed $28,000,000; provided further, that the executive office health and human services shall submit an allocation schedule to the house and senate committees on ways and means not less than 30 days after disbursement of funds; and provided further, that the annualized cost of the adjustments in fiscal year 2014 shall not exceed the amount appropriated herein………….. $28,000,000”.