Amendment #312 to H4100

Internet Crime Amendment

Mr. Golden of Lowell moves to amend the bill in section 2 by inserting after item 8100-0101 the following item:

"XXXX-XXXX  For the department of  state police, which may expend for the costs of cyber crime investigation an amount up to $3,000,000 to locate, investigate, and bring to justice those who would commit sex crimes upon children through the Internet; locate, investigate, and bring to justice those persons who use the Internet to facilitate the trading of images of pornography involving children; and locate, investigate, and bring to justice those persons who use the Internet to facilitate fraudulent schemes in an effort to defraud citizens with Internet access of money, goods, services, and other things, pursuant to the Internet Safety Fund as created by this Act; provided, that  notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, for the purpose of accommodating timing discrepancies between the receipt of retained revenues and related expenditures, the department may incur expenses and the comptroller may certify for payment amounts not to exceed the lower of this authorization or the most recent revenue estimate therefore as reported in the state accounting system…............….…..$3,000,000;

and by adding at the end thereof the following two sections:

SECTION  XXXX.  Section 2 of Chapter 64H of the General Laws of 2010 is hereby amended by adding the following sentence:

The commissioner of revenue shall deposit $3,000,000 from the receipt of such excises to the Internet Safety Fund; and

SECTION XXXX.  There shall be established and set up on the books of the commonwealth an Internet Safety Fund.  The fund shall be credited with any monies transferred under Section 2 of Chapter 64H and any monies credited or transferred to the fund from any other fund or source and shall be subject to appropriation.”