Budget Amendment ID: FY2025-S4-974-R1

Redraft EPS 974

Early Life Trauma Study

Messrs. Eldridge and O'Connor and Ms. Edwards moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 8100-0111, by inserting the following words:- "; provided further, that not less than $75,000 shall be expended for the Racism-based Violence Injury and Prevention Lab at Boston College to conduct a study evaluating the impacts of early life trauma on those incarcerated in the commonwealth for violent offenses; provided further, that, notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the department of correction shall permit investigators funded from this item access to inmates in correctional facilities for the purpose of completing this study"; and by striking out the figure “$12,857,730” and inserting in place thereof the following figure:- “$12,932,730”.