Amendment #951 to H3800

Home Works summer time and after-school program

Representatives Speliotis of Danvers, Kelcourse of Amesbury, McMurtry of Dedham, Walsh of Peabody and Cahill of Lynn move to amend the bill in section 2, in item 7004-0101, by inserting at the end thereof the following: “; and provided further, that not less than $500,000 shall be expended to establish the Home Works program; provided further, that the Home Works program shall provide opportunities for children in the emergency housing assistance program to attend out-of-school time and summer programming run by youth-serving organizations; provided further, that a youth-serving organization shall apply to contract with the department of housing and community development to receive contract slots to serve children in the program; provided further, that youth-serving organizations shall obtain criminal offender record information for each staff member employed by the program with responsibilities that include direct care of children pursuant to section 172H of chapter 6 of the General Laws and sex offender registry information pursuant to section 178I of said chapter 6, as well as information that is publicly available from a registry of sex offender information that is operated or coordinated by the federal government”; and in said item by striking out the figures “165,745,706” and inserting in place thereof the figures “166,245,706”.

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Home Works summer time and after-school program