Bill > H4466

This bill makes supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2024 and enacts various legislative changes. * **Office of the Comptroller:** $15,000,000 from the General Fund for settlements and judgments. * **Humanitarian Crisis and Shelter Influx Response:** $245,000,000 from the General Fund or the Transitional Escrow Fund to support the emergency housing assistance program, including funding for shelters, services, training programs, family welcome centers, supplemental staffing, resettlement agencies, and early education programs for homeless children and families. Funds are available through fiscal year 2025, with specific allocations for training ($10,000,000), family welcome centers ($3,000,000), supplemental staffing ($1,000,000), and resettlement agencies ($1,000,000). * **Alcoholic Beverages Control:** Provisions are made to allow cities and towns to approve expanded outdoor table service for restaurants and to permit establishments licensed to sell alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption to sell mixed drinks and wine/malt beverages for off-premises consumption under specific conditions, effective April 1, 2024. * **Tax Credits for Training:** A tax credit of $2,500 per qualified trainee is established for partnerships, LLCs, and other legal entities (Section 6) and for business corporations (Section 8) that offer authorized training programs to individuals receiving benefits through the emergency housing assistance program or in overflow emergency shelter sites. The total amount of credits authorized annually under these provisions is capped at $10,000,000. These provisions are effective for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2024, but are repealed effective January 1, 2026, or upon the end of the emergency shelter assistance program's capacity limitation. * **Work Authorization for Migrants:** The governor is directed to seek federal waivers for expedited work authorizations for newly arriving migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers to help alleviate the shelter crisis. * **Reporting Requirements:** Various executive offices are required to submit regular reports to the legislature on training programs, shelter operations, and student services for those in the emergency housing assistance program.