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Criminal Justice Training Council Fee SECTION 4. Chapter 6 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2000 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after section 116C the following section:- Section 116C 1/2. The criminal justice training council shall charge a fee for training programs operated by the council for all persons who begin training on or after July 1, 2002. The amount of said fee shall be established pursuant to section 3B of chapter 7. Said fee shall be retained and expended by said council subject to appropriation.The trainee or, if the trainee is a recruit from a municipal police department, the municipality shall provide said fee in full to the council no later than the first day of orientation for the program in which the trainee has enrolled. A municipality shall deduct said fee from the recruit's wages in 19 equal monthly installments, unless otherwise negotiated between the recruit and the municipality. No trainee shall begin training unless said fee has been provided in full to the council. If a trainee withdraws from the training program before graduation, the council shall refund the trainee or the municipality in which the recruit was to have served a portion of the fee according to the following schedule: if a trainee withdraws before the start of week two, 75 per cent of said payment shall be refunded; if a trainee withdraws after the start of week two but before the start of week three, 50 per cent of the fee shall be refunded; if a trainee withdraws after the start of week three but before the start of week four, the fee shall not be refunded. A recruit who withdraws from the program shall reimburse the municipality the amount of the fee paid under this schedule. Non-Discrimination Policy SECTION 5. Section 4 of chapter 7 of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by inserting at the end thereof the following paragraph:-The secretary of administration and finance, through the human resource division's office of affirmative action, shall conduct an ongoing review of affirmative action steps taken by various departments, boards, commissions, or institutions, to determine whether such entities are complying with the intent of the nondiscrimination policy as stated in section 1 of the general appropriation act for each year. Whenever noncompliance is determined by the secretary through the personnel administrator, the personnel administrator shall hold a public hearing on the matter and report his resulting recommendations to the head of the particular department, board, commission, or institution, to the secretary, to the governor and to the Massachusetts commission against discrimination. ITD Project Oversight Authority SECTION 6. Subsection (d) of section 4A of chapter 7 of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by inserting after the first paragraph thereof, the following paragraph:-Any planned information technology development project or purchase by any agency under the authority of the governor for which the total projected cost exceeds $200,000, including the cost of any related hardware, software, or consulting fees, and regardless of fiscal year or source of funds, shall be reviewed and approved by the chief information officer before such agency may obligate funds for such project or purchase. The chief information officer may establish such rules and procedures as he deems necessary to implement the provisions of this paragraph. State Lottery Fund Appropriations SECTION 7. Section 25 of chapter 10 of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended, in line 12, by inserting after the words "set forth in" the following words:- clauses (b1/2) and.State Lottery Fund Appropriations SECTION 8. Section 35 of chapter 10 of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by inserting after subsection (b) the following new subsection:-(b1/2) In fiscal years 2003, 2004, and 2005 for the purposes of payments to cities and towns and districts as may be appropriated for state assistance, reimbursements, and distributions under general and special law, with the base year being the fiscal year in which the highest amount of expenditures were made pursuant to this subsection; provided, that the amounts expended under this subsection in fiscal year 2006 shall not exceed two-thirds of the amount expended in the base year; provided further, that the amount expended under this subsection in fiscal year 2007 shall not exceed one-third of the amount expended in the base year; and provided further, that for fiscal year 2008 and thereafter, no amount shall be expended under this subsection; and. Department of Fire Services Hazardous Materials Mitigation Trust Fund SECTION 9. Section 5 (l) of chapter 21K of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out, in line 120, the words "into the general fund" and inserting in place thereof the following words:- into the Department of Fire Services Hazardous Materials Emergency Mitigation Response Recovery Trust Fund.Neighborhood Housing Services Loans SECTION 10. Chapter 23B of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by inserting after section 29 the following new section:-Section 30. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 12 of chapter 490 of the acts of 1980, the department of housing and community development may authorize neighborhood housing services corporations to retain, reassign, and re-loan funds received in repayment of loans made pursuant to the neighborhood housing services rehabilitation program. Transitional Aid to Needy Families Fund Repeal SECTION 11. Section 2KK of chapter 29 of the General Laws is hereby repealed.Child Care Development Fund Repeal SECTION 12. Section 2LL of chapter 29 of the General Laws is hereby repealed.Social Services Program Fund Repeal SECTION 13. Section 2MM of chapter 29 of the General Laws is hereby repealed.Voting Equipment Loan Fund Repeal SECTION 14. Section 2PP of chapter 29 of the General Laws is hereby repealed. The balance remaining in the Voting Equipment Loan Fund as of June 30, 2002 shall be transferred by the comptroller to the General Fund. Nothing herein shall alter or affect a municipality's repayment obligations under section 30 of chapter 9.Department of Fire Services Hazardous Materials Mitigation Trust Fund SECTION 15. Chapter 29 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 2AAA the following new section:-Section 2BBB. There shall be established and set up on the books of the commonwealth, a separate fund to be known as the Department of Fire Services Hazardous Materials Emergency Mitigation Response Recovery Trust Fund, consisting of monies as may be appropriated to the fund by the general court, any monies recovered pursuant to chapter 21K of the General Laws, any monies received from fines, and any income derived from the investment of monies transferred, appropriated, or recovered by the fund. Amounts credited to said fund shall be available for expenditure, without prior appropriation, by the state fire marshal, as head of the department of fire services, solely for the mitigation of hazardous materials emergency response incidents throughout the commonwealth and the reimbursement of all other reasonable related costs to hazardous materials mitigation emergency response member departments, cities, and towns responding to said incidents, or for other reasonable expenditures necessary to implement the provisions of said chapter 21K. The department of fire services may incur expenses, and the comptroller may certify for payment, amounts in anticipation of expected receipts. All monies that are deposited in the trust fund that are unexpended at the end of the fiscal year shall not revert to the General Fund. Consensus Revenue Estimate SECTION 16. Section 5B of chapter 29 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2000 Official Edition, is hereby amended, in line 49, by striking out the words "May fifteenth" and inserting in place thereof the following words:- March fifteenth.State Reclamation Board Indirect Cost Assessment SECTION 17. Subsection (f) of section 6B of chapter 29 of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended, in line 126, by inserting after the word "that" the following words:- the Mosquito and Greenhead Fly Control Fund and any associated expenditure accounts, and.Entitlement Disclaimer SECTION 18. Chapter 29 of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by inserting after section 6E the following new section:-Section 6F. A section, item or any portion thereof set forth in any appropriation bill shall not give rise, nor shall it be construed as giving rise, to any enforceable right or entitlement not otherwise provided by general or special law or regulation. Pension Liability Fund SECTION 19. Section 22C of chapter 32 of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended, in line 52, by striking out the word "eighteen" and inserting in place thereof the following word:- twenty-eight.Veterans' Services Training Programs SECTION 20. Chapter 115 of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by inserting after section 2A the following new section:-Section 2B. The commissioner of veterans' services may establish a training program for veteran's agents and directors of veterans' services in cities and towns of the commonwealth. The purpose of said program shall be to maximize federal assistance available for veterans and to ensure that said agents and directors receive uniform instruction on providing veterans and dependents with advice relative to procurement of state, federal, and local benefits to which they are entitled. The subject matter of said program shall include, but not be limited to, benefits available under this chapter, and those which are partially or wholly subsidized by the federal government such as Medicaid, Supplemental Security Income, and Social Security Disability benefits, as well as federal pension and compensation entitlements. The commissioner shall promulgate regulations for said program. Upon successful completion of said program by said agents and directors, allowable costs of said training program incurred by the several cities and towns shall be reimbursed by the commonwealth on or before November 10 in the fiscal year following the fiscal year in which such costs were paid. Home Improvement Contractor Registration Program SECTION 21. Section 11 of chapter 142A of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended, in lines 4 through 6, by striking out the words "individual construction supervisor licensed in accordance with said section ninety-four of chapter one hundred and forty-three and every".Mental Health Information System Trust Fund SECTION 22. Section 355 of chapter 159 of the acts of 2000 is hereby amended by striking out the fifth sentence.Capital Needs Investment Trust Fund SECTION 23. Section 357 of chapter 159 of the acts of 2000, as amended by chapter 182 of the acts of 2001, is hereby amended by striking out said section 357 and inserting in place thereof the following section:-Section 357. There shall be established on the books of the commonwealth a separate fund to be known as the Capital Needs Investment Trust Fund, in this section called the fund. There shall be credited to the fund in fiscal year 2001 and 2002 $45,000,000 for each such fiscal year received by the commonwealth from the income tax imposed by chapter 62 of the General Laws. The state treasurer shall hold amounts in the fund as trustee for the purposes set forth in this section and shall disburse in each of fiscal years 2001 and 2002 the following amounts without further appropriation: (a) two semiannual payments of $10,000,000 each to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund, established by chapter 121D of the General Laws, to be made at the beginning and middle of each fiscal year; (b) $11,000,000 upon the request from time to time of the department of education, for statewide systems and competitive grants for districts that innovate or adopt the best scalable practices for using technology to increase student achievement on curriculum aligned with the Massachusetts standards; (c) $5,000,000 upon the request from time to time of the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance, to repair, rehabilitate, reuse, demolish or redevelop former residential facilities operated by any of the departments of mental health, mental retardation and public health, according to a written annual plan which the commissioner shall file not later than September 15 with the house and senate committees on ways and means; and (d) $9,000,000 upon the request from time to time of the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance, for scheduled and deferred maintenance and repairs to capital assets owned by the commonwealth. The commissioner shall submit a plan detailing the cost and nature of such maintenance and repair projects, including how projects funded under this paragraph alleviate or otherwise affect the costs and schedules of maintenance and repairs otherwise funded or required to be funded by bonded indebtedness, to the secretary of administration and finance, the state budget director and the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than September 1, 2000. The commissioner shall file quarterly reports with the secretary, budget director and committees on the progress of all funded projects. The fund established pursuant to this section shall expire on June 30, 2003, at which time the fund shall be repealed and any unexpended balance and interest earnings shall be transferred to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund, established pursuant to chapter 121D of the General Laws. Pension Funding Schedule SECTION 24. Section 17 of chapter 177 of the acts of 2001 is hereby repealed.Early Retirement Incentive Program SECTION 25. Chapter 219 of the acts of 2001 is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following section:-Section 16. The speaker of the house of representatives and the senate president may fill a legislative branch position vacated as a result of an applicant's participation in the retirement incentive program, if said speaker and said president determine that the position is vital to the public health, public safety, or other critical operations of the commonwealth. The total annualized cost of regular compensation paid out by the commonwealth in fiscal year 2003 for refilled positions in the legislative branch shall not exceed 20 per cent of the total annualized cost of regular compensation which would have been paid out by the commonwealth during fiscal year 2003 for the positions vacated in the legislative branch pursuant to the retirement incentive program had such positions not been vacated; and provided further, that the total annualized cost of regular compensation paid out by the commonwealth in fiscal year 2004 for refilled positions in the legislative branch shall not exceed 20 per cent of the total annualized cost of regular compensation which would have been paid out by the commonwealth during fiscal year 2004 for the positions vacated in the legislative branch pursuant to the retirement incentive program had such positions not been vacated. Revenue Optimization Program SECTION 26. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, except for sections 52 to 55, inclusive, of chapter 7 of the General Laws, the secretary of administration and finance shall in fiscal year 2003 identify and pursue projects to optimize non-tax revenue management and collections by the commonwealth. The secretary or his designee is authorized to enter into contracts with private vendors and to enter into interdepartmental service agreements with departments to identify and pursue said projects. Private vendors shall be compensated from non-tax revenues collected by such projects in excess of the non-tax revenues established by said contracts as the minimum to be collected by each such project. For the purposes of this section, such payments to vendors for services performed shall be known as "vendor participation payments," amounts allocated from item 1599-0033 of section 2 to participating departments pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be known as "department incentive payments," and non-tax revenue collected pursuant to this section, after deduction of vendor participation payments, department incentive payments, and other charges directed to the Maximization Fund established by section 2R of chapter 29 of the General Laws, shall be known as "net additional revenue." For the purposes of this section, the terms "department" or "participating department" shall mean any department, agency, board, commission, office, or institution under the executive control of the governor or other constitutional officer and determined by the secretary to be participating in the revenue optimization projects authorized by this section.A vendor shall be compensated only if (1) the revenue achieved for each specific revenue source is new revenue, provided, that new revenue shall be defined as revenue in addition to revenue collected during the preceding fiscal year for each revenue source; and (2) in the event of revenue sources which are caseload-driven federal reimbursements, so called, the ratio of that revenue source to the reimbursable expenditure has exceeded the highest such ratio during the preceding fiscal year. The commonwealth shall retain all rights in software programs developed pursuant to any contract executed under this section. A department shall receive department incentive payments pursuant to this section and to item 1599-0033 of section 2 only if both (1) the collection of a fee or any other non-tax revenue during fiscal year 2003 is greater than the highest amount of revenue collected from said fee or other non-tax revenue during the preceding fiscal year and (2) the total revenue collected by such department in fiscal year 2003 is in excess of the amounts projected in section 1B for each department or alternatively in excess of the most recent revenue estimate, should there be one, from the fiscal affairs division. The comptroller shall deposit in the Maximization Fund all revenue pursuant to the provisions of this section and may allocate from said fund without further appropriation at the direction of the secretary, department incentive awards to participating departments in an amount not to exceed 20 per cent of total net additional revenue. Seventy-five per cent of said allocations shall be distributed to participating departments in proportion to the revenue collected by each individual department as a per cent of the total revenue collected under the provisions of this section. The remaining 25 per cent shall be distributed to participating departments at the discretion of the secretary, regardless of the amount of revenues collected by the individual departments. The comptroller shall transfer to the General Fund at the close of the fiscal year any balance remaining in the Maximization Fund after providing for said allocations to participating departments, vendor participation payments, and other charges to said Maximization Fund; provided, however, that no expenditure shall be made from said Maximization Fund that would cause said fund to be in deficit at the close of the fiscal year. Departments may expend department incentive payments without further appropriation after obtaining the written approval of the secretary or his designee of a plan detailing proposed expenditures, allocations, and reallocations provided that approved plans must be filed with the house and senate committees on ways and means not less than ten days in advance of any such allocation or reallocation. All expenditures made pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be for one-time expenses that shall not recur in the current or a subsequent fiscal year, and shall not be used to supplant purposes authorized in any other item of appropriation in the general appropriations act, or appropriated in any supplemental appropriation act enacted in the current or a subsequent fiscal year. Any unexpended balance from said allocations at the end of each fiscal year shall, at the discretion of the secretary or his designee, revert to the General Fund except to the extent that said approved spending plan includes multi-year expenditures. The comptroller shall report, not later than January 31 of each year, to the secretary of administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means on the results and operations of the revenue optimization projects authorized by this section, for the six-month period ending the preceding month. Such information shall detail, by each vendor, project, and department: the amount of vendor participation payments paid to each vendor, the net additional revenue retained by the commonwealth, the amounts allocated or reallocated to each such participating department pursuant to said item 1599-0033 and this section, and the estimated receipts, payments, and allocations for the fiscal year. The comptroller shall report to the secretary of administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means, not later than September 30 of each year, the preceding information for the prior fiscal year, the total of all vendor participation payments made to each vendor, and the net additional revenue collected by each project over the duration of the project. On or before September 30 of each fiscal year, the comptroller shall submit to the house and senate committees on ways and means a plan approved by the secretary of administration and finance detailing, by executive office and department, the net additional revenue estimated to be collected under the provisions of this section in the fiscal year. The provisions of this section shall remain in effect until July 1, 2004. Stabilization Fund Transfer SECTION 27. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the comptroller shall transfer $750,000,000 from the Commonwealth Stabilization fund to the General Fund on July 1, 2002.Lottery Payout Ratio SECTION 28. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the state lottery commission is hereby directed to structure the prize payouts for all lottery games in order to ensure that the aggregate lottery prize payout ratio, as defined by total prize payout as a percentage of total sales revenue, does not exceed the average prize payout ratio of the ten highest payout ratio state lotteries for the most recent fiscal year for which data is available.State Lottery Fund SECTION 29. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, if, in the event that the provisions of section 28 are enacted and the fiscal year 2003 State Lottery Fund revenues prove inadequate to support State Lottery Fund appropriations in sections 2 and 3, the comptroller, upon direction from the secretary of administration and finance, shall transfer funds from the Stabilization Fund to the State Lottery Fund sufficient to offset any potential shortfall in fiscal year 2003 revenues to the State Lottery Fund to ensure that said fund is in balance as of June 30, 2003.Asbestos Cost Recovery Trust Fund SECTION 30. There is hereby established on the books of the commonwealth a separate fund to be known as the Asbestos Cost Recovery Trust Fund. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, all sums awarded to or received by the commonwealth, after the payment of fees and expenses, as a result of settlement, trial, or judgment from Suffolk Superior Court No. 90-3791-A, Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Owens Corning Fiberglass, et al., and other actions brought to recover damages relating to asbestos-containing materials in buildings owned or operated by the commonwealth, or received as dividend payments by the commonwealth on the account of the bankruptcy of any manufacturer, seller, or distributor of asbestos-containing materials in buildings owned or operated by the commonwealth, shall be segregated and held in said fund. The division of capital asset management and maintenance shall develop a plan for the orderly expenditure of such sums as are received by the Asbestos Cost Recovery Trust Fund for the purposes of encapsulation, removal of asbestos, and costs related thereto. The plan shall contain provisions for emergencies, the short-term and long-term control of asbestos in buildings owned or operated by the commonwealth, and the removal and disposition of asbestos-containing materials located in such buildings.Interest earned on the revenues credited to said trust fund shall remain in the fund and be expended consistent with the provisions of this section. The funds deposited, and the interest earned thereon, may be expended by said division without further appropriation, consistent with the provisions of this section. Any sums remaining in the Asbestos Cost Recovery Fund, established by section 356 of chapter 159 of the acts of 2000, on June 30, 2001, shall be transferred to the Asbestos Cost Recovery Trust Fund. The provisions of this section shall expire on June 30, 2006, or after five consecutive fiscal years during which no deposits are made, whichever is later. Any remaining balance in this fund, upon expiration, shall be transferred to the General Fund. Initial Gross Payment to Qualifying Acute Care Hospitals SECTION 31. The comptroller shall transfer $30,000,000 from the General Fund to the Uncompensated Care Trust Fund, established pursuant to section 18 of chapter 118G of the General Laws, for the purpose of making initial gross payments to qualifying acute care hospitals for the hospital fiscal year beginning October 1, 2002. Said payments shall be made to hospitals prior to, and in anticipation of, the payment by hospitals of their gross liability to the Uncompensated Care Trust Fund. The comptroller shall transfer from said fund to the General Fund not later than June 30, 2003, the amount of the transfer authorized herein and any allocation thereof as certified by the commissioner of the division of health care finance and policy.FFP for the Uncompensated Care Trust Fund SECTION 32. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the division of medical assistance, in this section called the division, and the division of health care finance and policy shall take any appropriate action to obtain the maximum amount of federal financial participation available for amounts paid to hospitals, determined by the division to be disproportionate share hospitals in accordance with Title XIX requirements, for free care costs of such hospitals. Such appropriate action may include, but shall not be limited to, the assessment on hospitals for their liability to the uncompensated care pool pursuant to chapter 118G of the General Laws. Such appropriate action shall include the establishment or renewal of an interdepartmental service agreement between the division and the division of health care finance and policy which may authorize the division to make deposits into and payments from an account established for the purposes of this section within the Uncompensated Care Trust Fund, established by section 18 of said chapter 118G, or authorize the division of health care finance and policy to transfer uncompensated care fee revenue collected from hospitals pursuant to said chapter 118G or funds otherwise made available to said trust fund by the general court, to the division for the purposes of making disproportionate share adjustment payments to hospitals qualifying for such payments in accordance with the commonwealth's Title XIX state plan and relevant provisions of Title XIX. The division may expend amounts transferred to it from the Uncompensated Care Trust Fund by the division of health care finance and policy under such interdepartmental service agreement without further appropriation. In no event shall the amount of money assessed upon each hospital exceed the hospital's gross liability to the Uncompensated Care Trust Fund as determined by the division of health care finance and policy pursuant to said section 18 of said chapter 118G. Any federal funds obtained as a result of said actions shall be deposited in the General Fund. The offices of the state treasurer and the comptroller shall establish such procedures as may be necessary to accomplish the purpose of this section, including procedures to facilitate the expeditious assessment, collection, and expenditure of said funds.Disproportionate Share Hospitals FFP for DMH/DPH Facilities SECTION 33. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the department of mental health, the department of public health, the division of medical assistance and the division of health care finance and policy shall take any appropriate action to obtain the maximum amount of federal financial participation available for amounts paid for low-income care costs at those mental health and public health facilities determined to be disproportionate share hospitals in accordance with requirements of Title XIX of the Social Security Act. Such appropriate action may include, but shall not be limited to, the establishment of a separate account within the Uncompensated Care Trust Fund, established by section 18 of chapter 118G of the General Laws, for the purpose of making disproportionate share adjustment payments to such qualifying mental health and public health facilities pursuant to relevant division of health care finance and policy regulations and the Title XIX state plan on file with the Health Care Financing Administration. The division of medical assistance, the department of public health and the department of mental health may expend amounts transferred to them from such separate account within the Uncompensated Care Trust Fund without further appropriation. Any federal funds obtained as a result of actions taken pursuant to this section shall be deposited in the General Fund. The state treasurer and the comptroller shall establish such procedures as may be necessary to accomplish the purpose of this section, including procedures for the proper accounting and expenditure of funds pursuant to this section.Children's and Seniors' Health Care Assistance Fund SECTION 34. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the comptroller shall transfer, without further appropriation, as of June 30, 2003, $36,952,082 from the General Fund to the Children's and Seniors' Health Care Assistance Fund, established by section 2FF of chapter 29 of the General Laws.Intergovernmental Transfer to Disproportionate Share Hospitals SECTION 35. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the division of medical assistance may expend, subject to federal approval, $32,000,000 from the medical assistance intergovernmental transfer account within the Uncompensated Care Trust Fund for certain acute care hospitals for the intergovernmental funds transfer component of disproportionate share payments and service rate payments, as established in accordance with Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act, or any successor federal statute, any regulations promulgated thereunder, the Medicaid state plan, and the terms and conditions of agreements reached with the division for such transfer payments. No such funds shall be expended unless the acute care hospital has executed the division of medical assistance's current Acute Hospital Request for Applications and Contract, and a public entity is legally obligated to make an intergovernmental funds transfer to the division for deposit into said medical assistance intergovernmental transfer account in an amount specified in an agreement with such entity which amount shall be not less than 50 per cent of the amount of the said disproportionate share and service rate payments. All revenues generated pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be credited to said medical assistance intergovernmental transfer account. An accounting of such payments shall be reported quarterly to the house and senate committees on ways and means.Intergovernmental Transfer to University of Massachusetts-Affiliated Hospitals SECTION 36. Notwithstanding the provisions of any special or general law to the contrary, the division of medical assistance may expend, subject to federal approval, from the medical assistance intergovernmental transfer account within the Uncompensated Care Trust Fund up to $65,000,000 for the intergovernmental funds transfer component of Medicaid payments to the University of Massachusetts memorial hospital for hospital services provided pursuant to the terms and conditions of the contract between the division of medical assistance and said hospital. In order to receive payment, said hospital must have executed the division of medical assistance's current Acute Hospital Request for Applications and Contract. Said medical assistance intergovernmental transfer account shall be reimbursed by the University of Massachusetts medical school an amount specified in the contract which amount shall be not less than 50 per cent of the division of medical assistance's expenditure for said purposes. Not later than 60 days after such expenditure, the University of Massachusetts medical school shall submit to the secretary of administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means a report detailing the programs funded from revenue associated with this section.Intergovernmental Transfer for MassHealth Managed Care Contracts SECTION 37. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, during fiscal year 2003 and including the accounts payable period for said fiscal year, the division of medical assistance may expend from the medical assistance intergovernmental transfer account within the Uncompensated Care Trust Fund an amount not to exceed $425,000,000 for a program of MassHealth supplemental payments, so called, to certain publicly-operated entities providing Title XIX reimbursable services, directly or through contracts with hospitals under an agreement with the division relating to such payments and transfers as established in accordance with Title XIX of the Social Security Act or federal waivers thereof, federal regulations promulgated thereunder, the terms of the waiver under section 1115 of the Social Security Act, state law, and the Medicaid state plan. Such funds may be expended only for payment obligations arising during fiscal year 2003. Such expenditures shall reduce payments from the Uncompensated Care Trust Fund to such entities by an amount comparable to the net revenues received by such entities under this section. Said division of medical assistance shall notify the house and senate committees on ways and means if such expenditures are rendered ineligible for federal reimbursement. All expenditures made pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be reported quarterly to the house and senate committees on ways and means. Amounts so authorized for said expenditure shall be funded in part through intergovernmental transfers to the commonwealth of municipal or other non-federal public funds. The Boston public health commission and the Cambridge public health commission shall transfer to said medical assistance intergovernmental transfer account not less than one-half of the gross amounts of supplemental payments, so called, made by the division of medical assistance under managed care contracts with said commissions.Effective Date SECTION 38. Except as otherwise provided, the provisions of this act shall take effect on July 1, 2002.
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