Budget Amendment ID: FY2017-S4-383

EHS 383

Opioid Workforce Training

Ms. Flanagan, Messrs. Eldridge, Moore, Brady and Lewis, Ms. L'Italien, Ms. Donoghue, Ms. Gobi, Mr. O'Connor and Ms. Lovely moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, by inserting after item 4512-xxxx the following item:

“xxxx-xxxx For a health care workforce training pilot program to train selected hospitals or health center workers in better serving patients seeking substance use prevention and treatment services; and provided further that the Department of Public Health shall develop rules and regulations necessary to create and implement this health care workforce training pilot program, including but not limited to oversight of an application process for employers that have established and participated in a cooperative employee labor/management process, including but not limited to those established with labor organizations…… $500,000”