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SECTION 4.
Chapter 7 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 22 the following section:-
Section 22 1/2. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, whenever a law requires a state agency, department, office, commission or authority to publish in a newspaper a notice of a public procurement or solicitation, it shall be sufficient instead to post that notice on a public government internet website, including the commonwealth's electronic bidding website.
Suffolk Superior Criminal Clerks Compensation
SECTION 22.
(A) Section 16A of chapter 221 of the General Laws, as amended by section 29 of chapter 61 of the acts of 2007, is hereby further amended by adding the following sentence:- That assistant clerk shall receive, in addition to the salary paid to him as an assistant clerk under section 4, a sum equivalent to 10 per cent of the salary of an assistant clerk.
(B) Chapter 278 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 28C the following section:-
Section 28D 1/2. The clerk, the first assistant clerk and the second assistant clerk of the appellate division shall receive from the commonwealth as salary an amount equal to 10 per cent of and in addition to the salaries established and paid to them as clerk, first assistant clerk and second assistant clerk respectively of the superior court for criminal business in the county of Suffolk.
An employee of the office of the clerk of the superior court for criminal business in the county of Suffolk shall be designated by the clerk as a clerical assistant in matters pertaining to the business of the appellate division. The clerical assistant, so designated, shall receive from the commonwealth as salary an amount equal to 10 per cent of, and in addition to, the salary established and paid to that employee in the position held by that employee in the office of the clerk.
The clerk and the assistant clerks of the appellate division shall receive for travelling expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of their official duties the sum approved by a justice of the appellate division to be paid by the commonwealth. The clerk shall receive for office expenses necessarily incurred in the conduct of the business of the appellate division the sums approved by a justice of the appellate division to be paid by the commonwealth.
Trial Court Transferability
SECTION 24. Notwithstanding subclause (a) of clause (xxiii) of the third paragraph of section 9 of chapter 211B of the General Laws, or any other general or special law to the contrary, the chief justice for administration and management may, from the effective date of this act through April 30, 2009, transfer funds from any item of appropriation within the trial court to any other item of appropriation within the trial court. These transfers shall be made in accordance with schedules submitted to the house and senate committees on ways and means. The schedule shall include the following: (1) the amount of money transferred from 1 item of appropriation to another; (2) the reason for the necessity of the transfer; and (3) the date on which the transfer is to be completed. A transfer under this section shall not occur until 10 days after the revised funding schedules have been submitted in written form to the house and senate committees on ways and means.
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