Ms. Flanagan of Leominster, Mr. Koutoujian of
Waltham, Mr. Smizik of Brookline, Mr. Stanley of Waltham, Mr. Rush of Boston,
Mr. Walsh of Boston, Ms. Grant of Beverly, Ms. Callahan of Sutton, Mr. Eldridge
of Acton, Mr. O’Day of Worcester, Ms. L’Italien of Andover move that the bill
be amended in section 2, item 4800-1400 shall be amended as follows, by
striking:
“the department shall pursue the establishment of public-private partnership
agreements established for family stabilization services funded from sources
other than the commonwealth; provided further, that services shall include
supervised visitation programs, certified batterer intervention programs for
indigent batterers and their families, and scattered site transitional housing
programs, including programs to assist victims of domestic violence in finding
and maintaining permanent housing; provided further, that participants in
battered women's programs shall be provided with information regarding local
transitional housing resources; provided further, that funding shall be made
available to enhance counseling services for children who have witnessed
domestic violence; provided further, that funding shall be made available for
emergency shelters for substance abusing battered women; provided further, that
funding shall be made available for a statewide domestic violence hotline;
provided further, that the department shall continue to provide any match
funding required by federal program regulations; and provided further, that
domestic violence prevention specialists shall be funded from this item”,
and inserting: “ no less than $27,000,000 be expended for domestic violence emergency shelter and services, advocacy, outreach and prevention, including community based services and systems advocacy and of that amount no less than $6,000,000 be expended for infrastructure stabilization of local non-profit domestic violence services organizations”,
and in said item, by striking out the figure “$21,987,526” and inserting in place thereof the figure “$28,890,000”.