Budget Amendment ID: FY2012-S3-107

JUD 107

Indigent Grandparents Legal Services

Messrs. Rodrigues and Knapik and Ms. Fargo and Ms. Candaras moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 0330-0300, by inserting the following:- “provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for the “Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Project” to provide legal services to such grandparents in the areas of family law and public benefits and further requiring the Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation to  make a report to the Legislature no later than January 2012 of  all the above grandparents who requested legal services, were eligible for legal services and were denied because of insufficient resources, including the legal problem for which they sought assistance.”