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To diversify the use of the Workforce Training Fund to support the Workforce Competitiveness Trust Fund
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What they voted on
Add a proposed change (amendment) to the bill
Official wording: S.2192, Question on adoption of the amendment Friedman amendment #1
Official amendment title: Naming WCTF Grants in Honor of Senator Kenneth J. Donnelly (amendment #1, filed by Friedman, Cindy F.) · amendments on malegislature.gov
Who filed S.2192
Sponsor Senate Committee on Ways and Means
Committees often rewrite bills. The legislators who filed the original versions are listed on malegislature.gov.
Amendment adopted
Every member's vote
Voted yes (38)
- Michael J. Barrett Third Middlesex · Democrat
- Joseph A. Boncore First Suffolk and Middlesex · Democrat
- Michael D. Brady Second Plymouth and Bristol · Democrat
- William N. Brownsberger Second Suffolk and Middlesex · Democrat
- Harriette L. Chandler First Worcester · Democrat
- Sonia Chang-Diaz Second Suffolk · Democrat
- Cynthia Stone Creem First Middlesex and Norfolk · Democrat
- Julian Cyr Cape and Islands · Democrat
- Viriato M. deMacedo Plymouth and Barnstable · Republican
- Sal N. DiDomenico Middlesex and Suffolk · Democrat
- Eileen M. Donoghue First Middlesex · Democrat
- James B. Eldridge Middlesex and Worcester · Democrat
- Ryan C. Fattman Worcester and Norfolk · Republican
- Linda Dorcena Forry First Suffolk · Democrat
- Cindy F. Friedman Fourth Middlesex · Democrat
- Anne M. Gobi Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire and Middlesex · Democrat
- Adam G. Hinds Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden · Democrat
- Donald F. Humason, Jr. Second Hampden and Hampshire · Republican
- Kathleen O'Connor Ives First Essex · Democrat
- Patricia D. Jehlen Second Middlesex · Democrat
- John F. Keenan Norfolk and Plymouth · Democrat
- Barbara A. L'Italien Second Essex and Middlesex · Democrat
- Eric P. Lesser First Hampden and Hampshire · Democrat
- Jason M. Lewis Fifth Middlesex · Democrat
- Joan B. Lovely Second Essex · Democrat
- Thomas M. McGee Third Essex · Democrat
- Mark C. Montigny Second Bristol and Plymouth · Democrat
- Michael O. Moore Second Worcester · Democrat
- Patrick M. O'Connor Plymouth and Norfolk · Republican
- Marc R. Pacheco First Plymouth and Bristol · Democrat
- Michael J. Rodrigues First Bristol and Plymouth · Democrat
- Stanley C. Rosenberg Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester · Democrat
- Richard J. Ross Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex · Republican
- Michael F. Rush Norfolk and Suffolk · Democrat
- Karen E. Spilka Second Middlesex and Norfolk · Democrat
- Bruce E. Tarr First Essex and Middlesex · Republican
- Walter F. Timilty Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth · Democrat
- James T. Welch Hampden · Democrat
What it means
This bill lets the state fund in section 2RR of chapter 29 (the Workforce Training Fund named in the title) give grants to employers with job openings to train unemployed people, using no more than 5 per cent of the fund's yearly capitalization. Grants would go through the Commonwealth Corporation in a need-based, competitive process under the Workforce Competitiveness Trust Fund's rules, with 50 per cent paid at enrollment and the rest paid only if a trainee is placed in a related job of at least 30 hours a week for at least 2 months. The state would match this grant money, subject to appropriation. It also requires a yearly report by March 1 on the workforce training contributions employers pay.
Source: official text and history of S.2192 on malegislature.gov. This describes the bill text posted there; amendments may have changed the version that was voted on.
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