AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-EIGHT FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF THE DEPARTMENTS, BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, INSTITUTIONS AND CERTAIN ACTIVITIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH, FOR INTEREST, SINKING FUND AND SERIAL BOND REQUIREMENTS AND FOR CERTAIN PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS.

          Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

          SECTION 1. To provide for the maintenance of the several departments, boards, commissions and institutions, other services, and for certain permanent improvements, and to meet certain requirements of law, the sums set forth as state appropriations in section two for the several purposes and subject to the conditions specified in sections two and three are hereby appropriated from the General Fund unless specifically designated otherwise, subject to the provisions of law regulating the disbursement of public funds and the approval thereof, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ninety-eight. The sums set forth as federal appropriations in section two for the several purposes and subject to the conditions specified in said section two are hereby appropriated from the General Federal Grants Fund, subject to the provisions of law regulating the disbursement of public funds and the approval thereof. Federal funds received in excess of the amount appropriated in section two shall be expended only in accordance with the provisions of section six B of chapter twenty-nine of the General Laws. The amounts of any unexpended balances of federal grant funds received prior to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ninety-seven, and not included as part of an appropriation item in section two, are hereby made available for expenditure during fiscal year nineteen hundred and ninety-eight, in addition to any amounts appropriated in section two. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the agencies to which amounts are appropriated in section two from the Intragovernmental Service Fund established pursuant to section two Q of chapter twenty-nine of the General Laws are hereby authorized to expend said amounts for the provision of goods and services to agencies receiving appropriations in section two; provided, that all such expenditures shall be accompanied by a corresponding transfer of funds from an appropriation in section two to the Intragovernmental Service Fund; provided further, that no expenditures shall be made from said Intragovernmental Service Fund which would cause said fund to be in deficit at the close of fiscal year nineteen hundred and ninety-eight; and provided further, that any balance remaining in said Intragovernmental Service Fund at the close of fiscal year nineteen hundred and ninety-eight shall be transferred to the General Fund.

          SECTION 1A. In accordance with Articles LXIII and CVII of the Articles of Amendment to the Constitution and section six D of chapter twenty-nine of the General Laws, it is hereby declared that the amounts of revenue set forth in this section by source for the respective funds of the commonwealth for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ninety-eight are necessary and sufficient to provide the means to defray the appropriations and expenditures from such funds for such fiscal year as set forth and authorized in section two. The comptroller is hereby authorized and directed to keep a distinct account of actual receipts from each such source by each such fund, to furnish the executive office for administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means with quarterly statements comparing such receipts with the projected receipts set forth herein, and to include a full statement comparing such actual and projected receipts in the annual report for such fiscal year pursuant to section twelve of chapter seven A of the General Laws; provided, that such quarterly and annual reports shall also include detailed statements of any other sources of revenue for the budgeted funds in addition to those specified in this section.

Fiscal Year 1998 Revenue by Source and Budgeted Fund (in millions of dollars)
Source	All Budgeted Funds	General Fund	Local Aid Fund	Highway Fund	Other Budgeted Funds
Tax Revenue
Alcoholic Beverages	58.0	58.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Commercial Banks	146.0	146.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Savings Institutions	71.0	71.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Cigarette	305.0	88.7	0.0	0.0	216.3
Corporations	872.0	523.2	348.8	0.0	0.0
Deeds	40.0	3.1	36.9	0.0	0.0
Income Tax	7,011.0	4,126.3	2,750.8	0.0	133.9
Estate/Inheritance	78.0	78.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Insurance	304.0	304.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Motor Fuels	612.0	82.5	0.0	521.8	7.7
Utilities	146.0	146.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Racing	11.5	11.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
Room Occupancy	75.1	48.8	0.0	0.0	26.3
Sales: Regular	2,136.0	1,281.6	854.4	0.0	0.0
Sales: Meals	397.0	238.2	158.8	0.0	0.0
Sales: Motor Vehicles	399.0	239.4	159.6	0.0	0.0
Miscellaneous	5.5	5.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
Total Tax Revenue	12,667.0	7,451.7	4,309.3	521.8	384.1
Non-Tax Revenue
Federal Reimbursements	3,302.8	2635.9	0.0	3.4	663.5
Departmental Revenue	1,072.1	604.5	2.0	322.9	142.7
Consolidated Transfers	956.1	392.1	635.4	0.0	(71.4)
Total Non-Tax Revenue	5,331.1	3,632.5	637.4	326.3	734.9
Total Budgeted Fund	17,998.1	11,084.2	4,946.7	848.2	1,119.0

          SECTION 1B. The comptroller is hereby authorized and directed to keep a distinct account of actual receipts of non-tax revenues by each department, board, commission or institution, to furnish the executive office for administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means with quarterly statements comparing such receipts with projected receipts set forth herein, and to include a full statement comparing such receipts with projected receipts in the annual report for fiscal year nineteen hundred and ninety-eight pursuant to section twelve of chapter seven A of the General Laws; provided, that such quarterly and annual reports shall also include detailed statements of any other sources of non-tax revenue for the budgeted funds in addition to those specified in this section.

Fiscal Year 1998 Non-Tax Revenue Executive Office Summary (in dollars)
Source	Unrestricted Non-Tax Revenue	Restricted Non-Tax Revenue	Total Non-Tax Revenue
Judiciary	59,343,000	0	59,343,000
District Attorneys	54,000	0	54,000
Executive	5.000	0	5,000
Secretary of the Commonwealth	68,638,941	30,000	68,668,941
Treasurer and Receiver-General	464,303,955	539,665,201	1,003,969,156
Attorney General	9,440,600	0	9,440,600
State Ethics Commission	43,000	0	43,000
Inspector General	0	100,000	100,000
Campaign and Political Finance	23,540	0	23,540
Office of the Comptroller	1,973,087	20,000	1,993,087
Administration and Finance	182,326,122	31,454,715	213,780,837
Environmental Affairs	66,003,396	923,506	66,926,902
Health and Human Services	3,148,798,358	240,050,515	3,388,848,873
Transportation and Construction	7,417,910	27,345	7,445,255
Board of Library Commissioners	1,200	0	1,200
Labor and Workforce Development	35,620,428	0	35,620,428
Housing and Community Development	2,996,214	528,524	3,524,738
Economic Development	520,000	0	520,000
Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation	71,649,706	0	71,649,706
Department of Education	4,238,550	3,375,000	7,613,550
Higher Education	2,804,712	241,328	3,046,040
Public Safety	364,121,016	21,040,000	385,161,016
Elder Affairs	321,175	3,000,000	3,321,175
Legislature	18,914	0	18,914
Total Non-Tax Revenue	4,490,662,824	840,456,134	5,331,118,958

          SECTION 2. Appropriations for fiscal year nineteen hundred and ninety-eight are set out herein below. (located in the Budget Recommendations section)