Amendment #462 to H3400

Salary Reserve

Representatives Linsky of Natick, Chan of Quincy, Pignatelli of Lenox, Durant of Spencer, Kaufman of Lexington, Fennell of Lynn, Canavan of Brockton, Henriquez of Boston, Dykema of Holliston, Balser of Newton, Gobi of Spencer, Hecht of Watertown, Walsh of Boston, Walsh of Framingham, Cantwell of Marshfield, Koczera of New Bedford, Beaton of Shrewsbury, Fernandes of Milford, Schmid of Westport, Smola of Palmer, Madden of Nantucket, Sullivan of Fall River, Timilty of Milton, Gregoire of Marlborough, Provost of Somerville, Peake of Provincetown, Farley-Bouvier of Pittsfield, Puppolo of Springfield, Garlick of Needham, Toomey of Cambridge, Conroy of Wayland, DiNatale of Fitchburg, Humason of Westfield, Gifford of Wareham, Sciortino of Medford, Forry of Boston, Lewis of Winchester, Hill of Ipswich, Binienda of Worcester, McMurtry of Dedham, Cusack of Braintree, Straus of Mattapoisett, Khan of Newton, Roy of Franklin, Cariddi of North Adams, Heroux of Attleboro, Garballey of Arlington, Galvin of Canton, Dwyer of Woburn, Smizik of Brookline, Ashe of Longmeadow, Ferguson of Holden, Gordon of Bedford, Scibak of South Hadley, Rogers of Cambridge, Markey of Dartmouth, Mark of Peru, Cutler of Duxbury, Fox of Boston, O'Day of West Boylston, Sannicandro of Ashland, Nyman of Hanover, Hogan of Stow, Stanley of Waltham, Kafka of Stoughton, Poirier of North Attleborough, Cabral of New Bedford, Ehrlich of Marblehead, Cronin of Easton, Peisch of Wellesley, Barrows of Mansfield, Lyons of Andover, Vieira of Falmouth, Miceli of Wilmington, Brady of Brockton and Rosa of Leominster move that the bill be amended in section 2 by  inserting after item 1599-4444 the following item:

1599-6901.. For a reserve to adjust the wages, compensation or salary and associated employee-related costs to personnel earning less than $40,000 in annual compensation who are employed by private human service providers that deliver human and social services under contracts with departments within the executive office of health and human services and the executive office of elder affairs; provided, that home care workers shall be eligible for funding from this appropriation; provided further, that workers from shelters and programs that serve homeless individuals and families that were previously contracted through the Department of Transitional Assistance and the Department of Public Health currently contracted with DHCD and direct care workers that serve homeless veterans through the Dept. of Veterans Affairs shall be eligible for funding from this appropriation; provided further, that the secretary of administration and finance may allocate the funds appropriated in this item to the departments in order to implement this initiative; provided further, that the executive office of health and human services shall condition the expenditure of appropriation upon assurances that the funds shall be used solely for the purposes of equal percentage adjustments to wages, compensation or salary; provided further, that not later than January 15, 2014, the executive office of health and human services shall submit to the house and senate committees on ways and means a report delineating the number of employees, by job title and average salary, receiving the adjustment in fiscal year 2014 and the average percentage adjustment funded herein; provided further, that the report shall also include, for each contract scheduled to receive any allocation from this item in each such department, the total payroll expenditures in each contract for the categories of personnel scheduled to receive the adjustments; provided further, that no funds from this item shall be allocated to special education programs under chapter 71B of the General Laws, contracts for early education and care services or programs for which payment rates are negotiated and paid as class rates as established by the division of health care finance and policy; provided further, that no funds shall be allocated from this item to contracts funded exclusively by federal grants as delineated in section 2D; provided further, that the total fiscal year 2014 costs of salary adjustments and any other associated employee costs authorized there under shall not exceed $16,600,000; provided further, that the executive office health and human services shall submit an allocation schedule to the house and senate committees on ways and means not less than 30 days after disbursement of funds; and provided further, that the annualized cost of the adjustments in fiscal year 2015 shall not exceed the amount appropriated herein………….. $16,600,000