Budget Amendment ID: FY2015-S4-125-R1

Redraft GOV 125

Human Service Salary Reserve

Ms. Spilka, Messrs. Lewis, Rodrigues, Barrett, Donnelly and Eldridge, Ms. Candaras, Mr. Welch, Ms. Forry, Messrs. Keenan, Humason, DiDomenico, Brownsberger, Montigny and Richard T. Moore, Ms. Chang-Diaz, Ms. O'Connor Ives, Messrs. Finegold, Kennedy and Downing, Ms. Jehlen, Mr. Michael O. Moore and Ms. Lovely moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item XXXX-XXXX, moved that the bill be amended in section 2, by inserting after item 1599-4444 the following line 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 item; 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 the department of housing and community development and direct care workers that serve homeless veterans through the department of veterans’ services shall be eligible for funding from this item; provided further, that the secretary of administration and finance may allocate the funds appropriated in this item to the departments 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 in this item; 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 thereunder shall not exceed $8,000,000; provided further, that funds for this account shall be distributed not later than 160 days after the effective date of this section; 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 in this item………….. $8,000,000”.