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Office of Children, Youth, and Family Services
Suggestions Awards Board
SECTION 5. Section 31A of chapter 7 of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out, in line 19, the words "subject to appropriation, expend sums" and inserting in place thereof the following words:- retain a portion of new revenues received or savings generated in other items of appropriation and may expend these retained amounts without further appropriation.
Collection of Fraudulent Overpayments by DTA
SECTION 7. The first paragraph of subsection (a) of section 30 of chapter 18 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following 2 sentences:- At the expiration of any period of probation or court supervision, the commissioner of probation shall provide the department with information regarding the amount of any uncollected balance of an overpayment obligation under the judgment or order of the court. The department may use any means provided by law to collect the balance under a judgment or order of a court, or to collect an overpayment obligation established by an administrative hearing decision of the department or by voluntary agreement.
Line Item Transferability
SECTION 38.
(a) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the secretary of administration and finance may authorize the transfer of funds from any item of appropriation for any executive branch agency to any other item of appropriation for that agency or within its executive office. No transfer authorized by this section shall exceed 5 per cent of the amount appropriated for an item. The transfer may be made only with the written approval of the heads of the sending and receiving agencies and of the secretary of their executive office.
(b) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the secretary of administration and finance, with concurrence from the secretary of health and human services and the secretary of housing and economic development, may authorize the transfer of funds between item 7004-0100 and item 4000-0250 in section 2.
(c) Before making any transfer authorized by this section, the secretary of administration and finance shall submit a transfer schedule to the house and senate committees on ways and means. The schedule shall include the following: (1) the amount of money transferred from one item of appropriation to another; (2) the reason for the transfer; and (3) the date on which the transfer is to be completed.
Special Education Provider Rate Freeze
SECTION 50. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the operational services division which, under section 274 of chapter 110 of the acts of 1993, is responsible for determining prices for programs under chapter 71B of the General Laws, shall set those prices in fiscal year 2008 at the same level calculated for fiscal year 2007, except the prices for those programs for extraordinary relief, as defined in 808 CMR 1.06(4). Programs for which prices in fiscal year 2007 were lower than the full amount permitted by the operational services division shall be permitted to charge in fiscal year 2008 the full price calculated for fiscal year 2007.