Budget Amendment ID: FY2018-S3-191-R1

Redraft EDU 191

Medical School-Baystate Health Partnership

Messrs. Welch, Lesser and Humason moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 4000-0700, by adding the following words: “; provided further, that not less than $1,000,000 shall be expended in a one-time payment to a western Massachusetts regional academic health system to address regional physician shortages and enhance access to rural and urban preventive care by recruiting, training and retaining residents of the commonwealth into careers in medicine and to conduct projects on population and community health through collaboration with a medical school in the commonwealth”; and

in said section 2, in said item 4000-0700, by striking out the figure “2,638,047,224” and inserting in place thereof the following figure:- “2,639,047,224”.