Budget Amendment ID: FY2019-S4-1023-R2

2nd Redraft EPS 1023

Disability Law Center Bridgewater Monitoring

Ms. Creem, Ms. Friedman and Ms. L'Italien moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 8900-0001, by adding at the end thereof the following:-

“; provided further, that the department of correction shall expend $75,000 for monitoring the efficacy of service delivery reforms at Bridgewater state hospital by Disability Law Center, Inc.; provided further, that not less than once every 6 months, Disability Law Center, Inc. shall report on the impact of these reforms on the patients at Bridgewater state hospital to the joint committee on mental health substance use and recovery, the joint committee on the judiciary, the house and senate committees on ways and means, the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate”; and

in said section 2, in said item 8900-0001, by striking out the figure “625,104,903” and inserting in place thereof the following figure:- “625,179,903”.