Budget Amendment ID: FY2022-S3-566-R1

Redraft EHS 566

Advancing Systemic Solutions for Birthing People

Ms. Rausch and Ms. Lovely moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 4513-1000, by adding the following words:-

“; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for the department of public health to engage the services of a research center to conduct a culturally competent qualitative and quantitative study of: (i) the rates and bases of criminal prosecutions of pregnant and recently postpartum individuals; (ii) the prevalence and circumstances of infant abandonment in the commonwealth; and (iii) interventions that may have helped to avoid situations described in clauses (i) and (ii), including, but not limited to: (a) better access to social services, government benefits and health care during, prior to and subsequent to pregnancy; and (b) attendant impacts of structural and systemic racism and other forms of systemic inequality”;  and

in said section 2, in said item 4513-1000, by striking out the figure “$13,703,566” and inserting in place thereof the following figure:- “$13,803,566”.