Budget Amendment ID: FY2017-S4-205-R1

Redraft EDU 205

Marijuana baseline study

Messrs. Lewis, Joyce, Keenan and deMacedo, Ms. Lovely, Ms. Forry and Mr. Ross moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, by inserting after section 77 the following section:-

“SECTION 77A. The executive office of health and human services and the executive office for administration and finance, in consultation with the executive office of public safety and security and the department of public health, shall enter into an agreement with the University of Massachusetts at Amherst school of public health sciences and the University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute to conduct a comprehensive baseline study of marijuana use in the commonwealth and submit a report on its findings to the house and senate committees on ways and means and the house and senate chairs of the joint committee on public health not later than April 1, 2017.”