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General Fund Transfer to the Uncompensated Care Pool

SECTION 149.   Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the comptroller shall, in consultation with the office of the state treasurer, the executive office for administration and finance, and the executive office of health and human services, develop a schedule for making a series of transfers not to exceed $85,900,000 from the General Fund to the Uncompensated Care Trust Fund for the purpose of making revenues available for the administration of the uncompensated care pool, established under subsection (d) of section 18 of chapter 118G of the General Laws and section 161 of this act. Said schedule shall make said transfers in increments as deemed appropriate to meet the cash flow needs of the commonwealth and said uncompensated care pool; provided, that said transfers shall not begin before October 1, 2005 and shall be completed on or before June 30, 2006.