Amendment #590 to H4000

Salary Reserve

Representatives Linsky of Natick, Toomey of Cambridge, Durant of Spencer, Chan of Quincy, DiZoglio of Methuen, Gregoire of Marlborough, Dykema of Holliston, Garlick of Needham, Kuros of Uxbridge, Puppolo of Springfield, Walsh of Framingham, Dwyer of Woburn, Kaufman of Lexington, Hecht of Watertown, Heroux of Attleboro, Smizik of Brookline, Scibak of South Hadley, Gifford of Wareham, Farley-Bouvier of Pittsfield, Rushing of Boston, Timilty of Milton, Lyons of Andover, Cariddi of North Adams, Cantwell of Marshfield, Andrews of Orange, Fernandes of Milford, Pignatelli of Lenox, Calter of Kingston, Canavan of Brockton, Turner of Dennis, Cronin of Easton, Koczera of New Bedford, Cole of Peabody, Benson of Lunenburg, Khan of Newton, Nyman of Hanover, Ashe of Longmeadow, Roy of Franklin, Rogers of Cambridge, Markey of Dartmouth, Balser of Newton, Gordon of Bedford, Poirier of North Attleborough, McMurtry of Dedham, Barrows of Mansfield, Cusack of Braintree, Ayers of Quincy, Rosa of Leominster, Madden of Nantucket, Beaton of Shrewsbury, Schmid of Westport, Livingstone of Boston, Smola of Warren, Fennell of Lynn, Galvin of Canton, Hill of Ipswich, D'Emilia of Bridgewater, Decker of Cambridge, Moran of Lawrence, Gobi of Spencer, Mark of Peru, O'Day of West Boylston, Fox of Boston, Conroy of Wayland, Sannicandro of Ashland, Peisch of Wellesley, Donahue of Worcester, Parisella of Beverly, Speliotis of Danvers, Lawn of Watertown, Honan of Boston, Nangle of Lowell, Garballey of Arlington, Peterson of Grafton, DiNatale of Fitchburg, Hogan of Stow, Donato of Medford, Stanley of Waltham, Kafka of Stoughton, Kocot of Northampton, Peake of Provincetown, Provost of Somerville and Cutler of Duxbury 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, 2015, 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 2015 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 executive office of health and human services; 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 2015 costs of salary adjustments and any other associated employee costs authorized there under shall not exceed $16,600,000; provided further, that funds for this account shall be distributed no later than 160 days after passage; 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 2016 shall not exceed the amount appropriated herein………….. $16,600,000