Budget Amendment ID: FY2024-S3-321-R1

Redraft ECO 321

Home Works

Ms. Lovely, Messrs. Mark, Velis, Keenan, O'Connor, Feeney, Collins and Pacheco and Ms. Rausch 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 for the Home Works program to provide opportunities for children in the emergency housing assistance program 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 executive office of housing and livable communities to receive contract slots to serve children in the program; provided further, that any such youth serving organizations shall obtain, for each staff member employed by the program with responsibilities that include direct care for children, criminal offender record information 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 executive office may expend funds for the administration and implementation of the Home Works program"; and by striking out the figure "$324,051,902" and inserting in place thereof the following figure:- "$324,851,902".