Budget Amendment ID: FY2013-S4-67-R2

2nd Redraft JUD 67

Indigent Grandparents Legal Services

Mr. Rodrigues and Ms. Clark and Mr. Knapik moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 0330-0300, by inserting the following words:-

“provided further, that not less than $20,000 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 chief justice of administration and management to make a report to the Legislature no later than January 2013 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;" and moves to further amend in said item by striking out the figures "$205,790,613" and inserting in place thereof the figures "$205,810,613".