Budget Amendment ID: FY2017-S4-852

ECO 852

Welfare Reform, Disability Standard

Ms. Forry moved that the proposed new text be amended SECTION ___.  Subsection (e) of section 110 of chapter 5 of the acts of 1995, as amended by section 24 of chapter 158 of the acts of 2014, is hereby amended by striking out, in clause (1), the following words: - “, in the commissioner’s discretion,” and by inserting after the words “work experience;” the following words: - “provided, however, that the department shall review and update its medical standards as necessary to ensure that the standards are consistent with current medical knowledge.