Budget Amendment ID: FY2021-S4-253-R1

Redraft EHS 253

Summer Camp Stabilization Trust Fund

Messrs. Hinds and Moore, Ms. Gobi, Messrs. Welch, Timilty, O'Connor, Brady, Velis, Crighton, Tarr and Cyr and Ms. Lovely moved that the proposed new text be amended by inserting after Section 6 the following section:-

“SECTION 6A. Said chapter 10 is hereby further amended by inserting after section 35NNN the following section:-

Section 35OOO. (a) There shall be established and set up on the books of the commonwealth a Summer Camp Stabilization Trust Fund for the purpose of stabilizing licensed summer camps.

(b) The fund shall be administered by the department of public health and credited with: (i) appropriations, bond proceeds or other money authorized or transferred by the general court and specifically designated to be credited to the fund; (ii) funds from public and private sources, including, but not limited to gifts, grants and donations; and (iii) any interest earned on such money.

Revenues deposited in the fund that are unexpended at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the General Fund and shall be made available for expenditure in the following fiscal year. No expenditure shall be made from the fund that causes the fund to become deficient at any point.

(c) Annually, not later than December 1, the commissioner of public health shall file a report detailing expenditures from the fund to the clerks of the senate and the house of representatives, the senate and house committees on ways and means, the joint committee on education and the joint committee on public health.”.