Amendment #120 to H3400

Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Project

Mr. Donato of Medford moves to amend the bill in section 2, in item 0330-0300, in line 15 by inserting after "commonwealth" the following: " provided further, that not less than $30,000 shall be spent 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 in said item by striking out the figures “$213,842,717" and inserting in place thereof the figures “$213,872,717".