Amendment #9 to H4841

Plan for New Data Collection

Ms. Khan of Newton moves to amend the bill in section 3 by striking subsection (h) in line 183 and inserting in place thereof the following section:-

(h) If the department is unable to submit the report under subsection (a), issue the profile under subsection (b), other legislatively mandated reports or specific data points that are not currently being collected in any of the legislatively mandated reports by the respective deadlines, the commissioner or the commissioner’s legal counsel shall notify the governor, the child advocate, the clerks of the house of representatives and the senate, the house and senate committees on ways and means and the joint committee on children, families and persons with disabilities in writing and provide an explanation for the delay. The department shall also provide a plan for collecting the specific data it does not currently collect with financial cost estimates to develop systems to collect the data required. The department shall, at the written request of the chairs of the joint committee on children, families and persons with disabilities, provide the committee with partial data if the report under subsection (a), the profile under subsection (b), or any other legislatively mandated report is late due to maturation or confirmation of certain data points while other information may be ready for public submission. For the purposes of this section, the term “legislatively mandated report” shall mean a report required by law of the department of children and families.

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Plan for New Data Collection