Budget Amendment ID: FY2021-S4-69

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Ensuring Stability of our Public Colleges and Universities

Ms. Gobi, Messrs. Moore and O'Connor, Ms. Jehlen, Messrs. Brady, Timilty, Pacheco and Feeney and Ms. Moran moved that the proposed new text be amended by adding at the end thereof, the following new section:

SECTION XX. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the expenditure of funds appropriated in this act for campus operation in the commonwealth's community colleges, state universities, and University of Massachusetts shall be contingent on the cessation of layoffs and furloughs of campus faculty and staff; and provided further that the board of higher education and the Board of Trustees of the University of Massachusetts shall submit a plan to reinstate employees who have been laid-off and campus programs that have been eliminated on or after July 1, 2020 due to projected state budget shortfalls related to COVID 19 pandemic, to the committees on Ways and Means and the Joint Committee on Higher Education by December 31, 2020.