Budget Amendment ID: FY2021-S4-344-R1

Redraft ECO 344

Home Works

Ms. Lovely, Messrs. Moore, Brady, O'Connor and Tarr moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 7004-0101, by adding the following words:- “; provided further, that not less than $800,000 shall be expended to establish the home works program, which shall provide opportunities for children in emergency housing assistance programs 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 for 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; provided further, that the department may expend funds for the administration and implementation of the home works program"; and

in said section 2, in said item 7004-0101, by striking out the figure "$179,904,755" and inserting in place thereof the following figure:- "$180,704,755”.