Budget Amendment ID: FY2018-S3-306-R1

Redraft EHS 306

Special Commission on Unaccompanied Homeless Youth and the Annual Youth Court

Messrs. Cyr, Eldridge, Brady and O'Connor moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 4000-0300, by inserting after the words "subsequent month" the following:- “; provided further, that funds shall be expended for the work of the Massachusetts Special Commission on Unaccompanied Homeless Youth to determine the scope of need among unaccompanied youth and young adults ages 24 and younger who are experiencing homelessness, including funding research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth, and other disproportionately homeless youth, and to identify and implement potential models for appropriate service delivery to unaccompanied homeless youth in urban, suburban, and rural areas of the commonwealth;”