Amendment #922 to H4400

Home Works Program

Representatives Speliotis of Danvers, Poirier of North Attleborough and Hecht of Watertown move to amend the bill in section 2, in item 7004-0101, by adding the following: "; provided further that not less than $1,000,000 shall be expended for the Home Works program; provided further, that the Home Works program shall provide opportunities for children in the emergency housing assistance program to attend out-of-school time and summer programming run by youth-serving organizations; provided further, that a youth-serving organization shall apply to contract with the department of housing and community development to receive contract slots to serve children in the program; provided further, that youth-serving organizations shall obtain criminal offender record information for each staff member employed by the program with responsibilities that include direct care of children pursuant to section 172H of chapter 6 of the General Laws and sex offender registry information pursuant to section 178I of said chapter 6, as well as information that is publicly available from a registry of sex offender information that is operated or coordinated by the federal government"; and in said item by striking out the figures "148,607,614" and inserting in place thereof the figures: "149,607,614".

Additional co-sponsor(s) added to Amendment #922 to H4400

Home Works Program