Budget Amendment ID: FY2019-S4-1098-R1
Redraft EPS 1098
School Safety Assistance Team and Grant Program
Messrs. Rush, Tarr, Feeney, Brady, Timilty, Lewis, Ross, Hinds and Moore, Ms. Gobi, Mr. Welch, Ms. O'Connor Ives, Ms. L'Italien, Messrs. Lesser, O'Connor and Cyr moved that the proposed new text be amended be amended by adding the following new section:-
“SECTION XX. Section 1. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the Commonwealth shall establish a School Safety Technical Assistance Team to provide assistance to school districts, at their request, on all aspects of school safety and emergency management. The school safety technical assistance team shall consist of the Secretary of Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, or a designee, the Secretary of the Education, or a designee, the Secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, or a designee, the director of the Massachusetts School Building Authority, or a designee, a member of the Massachusetts Police Chiefs Association, a member of the Fire Chiefs Association of Massachusetts, and a member of the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents. The Executive Office of Public Safety and Security shall act as the lead agency in the development and implementation of the School Safety Technical Assistance Team.
Section 2. There shall be established a school security infrastructure grant program for the sole purpose of allowing cities, towns, and regional school districts to enhance safety and security at their school facilities; provided, that amounts shall be credited to the fund by the fines as established in section 3 and section 4; provided, that the fund may be supplemented through appropriation from the general fund or other available sources including but not limited to any interest earned on monies in the fund; any funds from private sources including, but not limited to, gifts, grants and donations received by the Commonwealth that are specifically designated to be credited to the fund; provided further, that funds may be expended to retrofit buildings with security features such as classroom door locks, security cameras, and active shooter detection and real time threat alert systems; provided further, that School Safety Technical Assistance Team shall submit a report outlining appropriations necessary to operate this grant program to the joint committee on education, the joint committee on public safety and homeland security, and the house and senate committees on ways and means on or before March 1, 2019.”
Section 3. Section 18B of chapter 265 of the general laws is hereby amended by inserting the following paragraph: “Whoever, while in the commission of or the attempted commission of an offense which may be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, has in his possession or under his control a firearm, rifle or shotgun shall, in addition to the penalty for such offense, be imposed a fine of $250; provided, however, that if such firearm, rifle or shotgun is a large capacity weapon, as defined in section 121 of chapter 140, or if such person, while in the commission or attempted commission of such offense, has in his possession or under his control a machine gun, as defined in said section 121, such person shall be imposed a fine of $500. Whoever has committed an offense which may be punished by imprisonment in the state prison and had in his possession or under his control a firearm, rifle or shotgun including, but not limited to, a large capacity weapon or machine gun and who thereafter, while in the commission or the attempted commission of a second or subsequent offense which may be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, has in his possession or under his control a firearm, rifle or shotgun shall, in addition to the penalty for such offense, be imposed a fine of $750; provided, however, that if such firearm, rifle or shotgun is a large capacity semiautomatic weapon or if such person, while in the commission or attempted commission of such offense, has in his possession or under his control a machine gun, such person shall be imposed a fine of $1,000.
Section 4. Section 10 of chapter 269 of the general laws is hereby amended by inserting the following section: (p) Whoever has violated this statue shall be imposed a fine of $200.