Budget Amendment ID: FY2012-S3-280-R1

Redraft EDU 280

Scholarship Program

Messrs. Moore and DiDomenico moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 7070-0065, by inserting after the word “assistance”, in line 7, the following words:- “; provided further, that funds from this item shall be in addition to $1,000,000 made available by the Massachusetts Education Finance Authority in fiscal year 2012 for a program of needs-based financial assistance for Massachusetts residents enrolled in and pursuing a program of higher education at the University of Massachusetts, the state universities or the community colleges”; and in said item 7070-0065, by striking out the figure “$86,507,756” and inserting in place thereof the following figure:- “$87,507,756".