State House leaders have proposed a 425-million-dollar bill that would make drastic changes to the state emergency shelter system. 

The bill would reduce the maximum number of families served by the shelter system from 75 hundred to four thousand. 

The bill would also eliminate the policy of presumed eligibility, meaning families will have to prove U.S. citizenship before being placed in a shelter. 

There were around six thousand families in the emergency shelter system at the end of January.