Budget Amendment ID: FY2015-S4-683-R1

Redraft EHS 683

Homemaker Wage Increase

Ms. Jehlen, Ms. Forry, Messrs. Lewis, Donnelly, Barrett, Brownsberger and DiDomenico, Ms. Donoghue, Mr. Michael O. Moore, Ms. Candaras and Mr. McGee moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, moved that the bill be amended by inserting, after section 121, the following section:-

“Section 121A. Not less than $6,100,000 from the Community First Trust Fund, established in section 11, shall be expended to adjust the approved program rates issued under 114.4 CMR 17.03 to provide a rate add-on for wages, compensation or salary and associated employee-related costs to personnel providing homemaker and personal care homemaker services to elderly clients under items 9110-1500, 9110-1630 and 4000-0600.”