Budget Amendment ID: FY2018-S3-300-R2

2nd Redraft EHS 300

Nursing Home Licensure

Messrs. Tarr, Humason and Ross and Ms. O'Connor Ives moved that the proposed new text be amended by inserting after section 65 the following section:-

“SECTION 65A.  Section 20N of chapter 233 of the General Laws, as inserted by section 126 of chapter 46 of the acts of 2015, is hereby amended by adding the following 3 subsections:-

(c) Each social worker employed by the department of children and families shall be provided with a state-issued identification card showing the name and position of the worker and containing a recent picture. In performing any of the social worker’s duties, the social worker shall display the identification card and such card shall be accepted as proof of the social worker’s identity unless the person to whom it is displayed has a good faith basis for denying its authenticity.

(d) No person, facility, school or law enforcement agency, jail or house of correction shall require a social worker employed by the department of children and families to provide, in connection with the performance of the social worker’s duties: (i) documentation including, but not limited to, a driver’s license, other than the state-issued identification card described in subsection (c); or (ii) the social worker’s home address or personal telephone number.

(e) The home address and personal telephone number of a social worker employed by the department of children and families shall be redacted from law enforcement agency reports before such reports are released to any person.”.