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Quality in Health Professions Trust Fund SECTION 26. Said section 35X of said chapter 10, as so inserted, is hereby further amended by inserting at the end thereof the following new subsection:-(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the secretary of administration and finance, following a public hearing, shall increase the fee for obtaining or renewing a license, certificate, registration, permit or authority issued by a board within the department of public health by additional amount not to exceed 50 per cent, rounded to the nearest dollar, of the fees in effect prior to the fee increases authorized pursuant to subsection (b), provided that, the fees for any board that have not increased fees pursuant to subsection (b) shall be increased by an amount not to exceed 100 per cent. Amounts collected, as the result of the fee increases required by this subsection, shall be credited to the fund established in subsection (a). |