Amendment #958 to H4000

Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS)

Representatives Decker of Cambridge, Farley-Bouvier of Pittsfield, Vieira of Falmouth and Ashe of Longmeadow move to amend the bill in section 2 by inserting after item 7009-1700 the following item:

7009-1710

For the information technology costs of implementing a quality rating improvement system for early education and care in the commonwealth, including costs associated with integrating and consolidating the licensure system, the professional qualifications registry, and the central wait list system, with the quality measures embedded in the QRIS standard; provided, that any system developed shall include verification procedures for ensuring the validity of the data by which QRIS levels are determined and assigned    $2,500,000