Press Release: 2024-07-26
Full formal session to consider action on S. 2887
Today the Massachusetts State Senate will convene in a full formal session at 1PM to consider action on S. 2887, An Act relative to disability pensions and critical incident stress management for violent crimes (H.4746) and S.2888, FY’24 Supplemental Budget Appropriations.
S.2887 proposes to amend the General Laws (Accidental Disability Pensions) by entitling police, firefighters, EMTs, or other public safety employees who are subjected to serious violent attacks while in the performance of their duties to additional pension benefits and would provide notice of critical incident stress management debriefing programs for public safety employees involved in certain serious incidents. This bill is based on bills filed by myself and Senator Friedman (S.1736 & S.1680).
S.2888 proposes the Senate Ways & Means version of a roughly $432 million FY’24 supplemental budget — appropriations include $228 million for home and community based services, $61.1 million for a health and human services workforce reserve, $29.7 million for child care subsidies, $20 million for crime victim services bridge funding, $45 million for payments to fiscally strained hospitals, $25 million for payments to fiscally strained community health centers, and several smaller items.
Senators have filed 6 proposed amendments to modify S.2887 and 54 proposed amendments to modify S.2888, as reported favorably by the Senate Committee on Ways and Means.
You can read the full text of the bills and the amendments at:
https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2887
https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/S2888
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