Amendment #302 to H4100

Probation Department Administrative Language

Representatives Linsky of Natick and Swan of Springfield moves to amend the bill by adding at the end the following sections:

“SECTION.  Subsection (c) of section 2A of chapter 211D, as so appearing, is hereby further amended by striking out, in the ninth sentence,  the words “and every 6 months thereafter”.

“SECTION . Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, there shall be a committee comprised of the following: 1) the chief counsel of the committee on public counsel services, or his designee; 2) the commissioner of probation, or his designee; 3) the chief justice of the supreme judicial court, or his designee; 4) the chief justice for administration and management, or his designee; 5) the chief justice of the juvenile court, or his/designee. Said committee shall establish a new definition of “indigency” for the purposes of verifying asset information of those individuals for whom counsel shall be appointed by the court. Said committee shall report its findings, together with recommendations for legislation, if any, to the clerks of the house and senate no later than January 1, 2013”.

“SECTION . Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, there shall be a committee comprised of the commissioner of probation, or his designee, the secretary of administration and finance ,or his designee, the chair of the house post audit and oversight committee, or his designee, the chief counsel of the committee for public counsel services, or his designee, the chief justice of the supreme judicial court, or his designee, the chairs of the house and senate committees on the judiciary, or their designees. Said committee shall study which state agency would be best equipped to perform the indigency verification functions as mandated in M.G.L. Chapter 211D. Said committee shall report its findings, together with recommendations for legislation, if any, to the clerks of the house and senate no later than January 1, 2013”.