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SECTION 2.
0320-0003 For
the operation of the supreme judicial court, including salaries of the chief
justice and the 6 associate justices..........................................................................................................................................................
$7,405,949
0320-0010 For the
operation of the clerk’s office of the supreme judicial court for
0321-0001 For
the operation of the commission on judicial conduct ...........................................................
$565,278
0321-0100 For
the services of the board of bar examiners ............................................................................
$1,087,055
Committee
for Public Counsel Services.
0321-1500 For
the operation of the committee for public counsel services as authorized by
chapter 211D of the General Laws; provided, that the committee shall submit a
report to the clerks of the house of representatives and senate, not later than
0321-1510 For
compensation paid to private counsel assigned to criminal and civil cases under
subsection (b) of section 6 of chapter 211D of the General Laws, pursuant to
section 11 of said chapter 211D; provided, that not more than $1,000,000 of the
sum appropriated in this item may be expended for services rendered before
fiscal year 2007......................................................................................................................................................
$125,150,980
0321-1518 The
chief counsel for the committee for public services may expend an amount not to
exceed $750,000 from revenues collected from fees charged for attorney
representation of indigent clients..........................
$750,000
0321-1520 For
fees and costs as defined in section 27A of chapter 261 of the General Laws, as
ordered by a justice of the appeals court or a justice of a department of the
trial court of the commonwealth on behalf of indigent persons, as defined in
said section 27A of said chapter 261; provided, that not more than $500,000 of
the sum appropriated in this item may be expended for services rendered before
fiscal year 2007 ..................................................
$8,736,000
0321-1600 For
the Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation to provide legal representation
for indigent or otherwise disadvantaged residents of the commonwealth; provided,
that notwithstanding section 9 of chapter 221A of the General Laws, $1,204,604
shall be expended for the disability benefits project, $544,286 shall be
expended for the Medicare Advocacy Project, and $2,490,993 shall be expended for
the Battered Women’s Legal Assistance Project; provided further, that the
corporation shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and
means not later than
0321-2000 For
the operation of the mental health legal advisors committee and for certain
programs for the indigent mentally ill, as provided in section 34E of chapter
221 of the General Laws...................................................
$753,248
0321-2100 For
the
0321-2205 For
the expenses of the social law library located in
0322-0100 For
the appeals court, including the salaries, traveling allowances and expenses of
the chief justice, recall judges and the associate justices..................................................................................................................
$10,175,419
0330-0101 For
the salaries of the justices of the several departments of the trial court;
provided, that the chief justice for administration and management shall provide
written notification to the house and senate committees on ways and means of any
transfers of funds from this item to any other item of appropriation within 30
days of the transfer........................................................................................................................................................
$48,142,445
0330-0300 For
the central administration of the trial court, including costs associated with
trial court non-employee services, trial court dental and vision health plan
agreement, jury expenses, trial court law libraries, statewide
telecommunications, private and municipal court rental and leases, operation of
courthouse facilities, witness fees, printing expenses, equipment maintenance
and repairs, court interpreter program, and insurance and chargeback costs;
provided, that funds may be expended for the judicial training institute;
provided further, that the chief justice for administration and management shall
expend funds for the purposes of acquiring, through a lease agreement, suitable
space in the town of Belchertown
for the district court of eastern Hampshire by November 1, 2006; provided
further, that funds from this item or any other item shall not be expended for
the cost associated with the district court of eastern Hampshire, unless that
division is located in the town of Belchertown as of said date; provided
further, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, all
criminal and civil business within the eastern Hampshire district court
jurisdiction shall be conducted in the town of Belchertown as of said date;
provided further, that the chief justice shall submit a report to the house and
senate committees on ways and means not later than September 1, 2006 detailing
the status of said lease agreement; provided further, that 50 per cent of all
fees payable pursuant to Massachusetts Rules of Criminal Procedure 15(d) and
30(c)(8) shall be paid from this item; provided further, that notwithstanding
section 9A of chapter 30, or any general or special law to the contrary, the
rights afforded to a veteran, pursuant to said section 9A of said chapter 30,
shall also be afforded to any veteran, as so defined, who holds a trial court
office or position in the service of the commonwealth not classified under
chapter 31, other than an elective office, an appointive office for a fixed term
or an office or position under section 7 of chapter 30, and who (1) has held the
office or position for not less than 1 year and (2) has 30 years of total
creditable service to the commonwealth, as defined in chapter 32; provided
further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for the implementation of
a changing lives through literature program; provided further, that not less
than $100,000 shall be expended from this item for a contract with Massachusetts
General Hospital for a research program on abused children; provided further
that not less than $300,000 shall be expended for the restoration and
replacement of the dome and torch of the Bristol county superior court; provided
further, that the chief justice for administration and management of the trial
court shall make a report to the general court relative to the annual cost of
maintaining the court system’s electronic equipment and systems and identify
means to reduce the costs; provided further, that the report shall include, but
not be limited to the following: an analysis of current equipment maintenance
service contracts, a review of alternative equipment maintenance programs which,
if implemented, would result in cost savings, better management of the equipment
repair process, and enhanced equipment protection; provided further that in
preparing the report the chief justice for administration and management may
utilize the services of appropriate third parties knowledgeable in equipment
service contracts; provided further, that the chief justice for administration
and management shall file the report with the house and senate committees on
ways and means on or before October 1, 2006; provided further, that the trial
court shall submit a report to the victim and witness assistance board detailing
the amount of assessments imposed within each court by a justice or
clerk-magistrate during the previous calendar year pursuant to section 8 of
chapter 258B of the General Laws; provided further, that the report shall
include, but not be limited to, the number of cases in which the assessment was
reduced or waived by a judge or clerk-magistrate within the courts; provided
further, that the report shall be submitted to the victim and witness assistance
board on or before January 14, 2007; and provided further, that not less than
$9,903,211 shall be expended for
the rental of county court facilities, in accordance with section 4 of chapter
29A of the General Laws; and provided further, that all county facilities shall
be reimbursed at 100 per cent from this item in fiscal year 2007......................................................................................................................................................
$131,912,460
0330-0317 For
the operation and expenses of the
0330-0410 For
alternative dispute resolution services for the trial court; provided, that the
services shall be made available to the extent possible in connection with child
care, protection and custody proceedings in juvenile and probate courts;
provided further, that not less than $25,863 shall be expended for the Housing
Services and Mediation Program operated by the Berkshire County Regional Housing
Authority in Pittsfield; provided further, that not less than $29,558 shall be
expended for Berkshire Mediation Services Inc.; provided further that not less
than $60,000 shall be expended for North Central Court Services, Inc.; provided
further, that not less than $65,000 shall be expended for the North Shore
Community Mediation Program in Salem; provided further, that not less than
$65,000 shall be expended for Metropolitan Mediation Services; provided further,
that not less than $62,811 shall be expended for Mediation Works, Inc; provided
further, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended for Quabbin Mediation in
Athol; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended for the
Mediation and Training Collaborative of Franklin County in Greenfield; provided
further, that not less than $65,000 shall be expended for Framingham Court
Mediation Services; provided further, that not less than $60,000 shall be
expended for the Cape Cod Dispute Resolution Center; provided further, that not
less than $65,000 shall be expended for the Community Dispute Settlement Center,
Inc., of Cambridge; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be
expended for the Greater Brockton Center for Dispute Resolution; provided
further, that not less than $48,031 shall be expended for the Somerville
Mediation Program; provided further, that not less than $65,000 shall be
expended for the Middlesex Multi-door Court House Program; and provided further,
that not less than $40,000 shall be expended for the Martha’s Vineyard Mediation
Program; and provided further, that not less than $42,737 shall be expended for
Dispute Resolution Services, Inc. in the city of Springfield; and provided
further, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended for Community Mediation of
Worcester ...................................................................
$943,189
0330-0441 For
permanency mediation services in the probate and juvenile courts....................................
$500,000
0330-3200 For
the court security program, including personnel and expenses; provided, that the
chief justice for administration and management shall submit a report to the
house and senate committees on ways and means not later than
0330-3333 The
chief justice for administration and management may expend an amount not to
exceed $20,000,000 from fees charged and collected pursuant to section 3 of
chapter 90C, chapter 185, section 22 of chapter 218 and sections 2, 4A, 4C, 39
and 40 of chapter 262 of the General Laws; provided, that the chief justice
shall only expend or allocate funds from this item to the 7 departments of the
trial court for the operation of the departments; provided further, that any
expenditures or allocations shall be made in accordance with schedules submitted
to the house and senate committees on ways and means 30 days before the
expenditures or allocations are made; provided further, that the only revenue
available for expenditure in this item for fiscal year 2007 shall be revenue
collected from the fees in excess of the amount collected and deposited into the
General Fund in fiscal year 2003 from the fees; provided further, that no allocation shall occur until the
schedules have been approved by the committees; provided further, that the fees
shall continue to be transmitted to the treasurer for deposit into the General
Fund before the expenditure authorized by this item; and provided further, that
notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, for the purpose of
accommodating timing discrepancies between the receipt of revenues and related
expenditures, the chief justice may incur expenses and the comptroller shall
certify for payments amounts not to exceed the lower of one half of this
authorization or the most recent revenue estimate therefor as reported in the
state accounting system ........................................................................................................................................................
$20,000,000
0330-3334 The chief justice for administration and management may expend an amount not to exceed $20,000,000 from fees charged and collected pursuant to section 87A of chapter 276 of the General Laws; provided, that the chief justice shall expend or allocate funds from this item only to the district court and Boston municipal court departments of the trial court for the operation of those departments; provided further, that any expenditures or allocations shall be made in accordance with schedules submitted to the house and senate committees on ways and means 30 days before the expenditures or allocations are made; provided however, that the chief justice shall allocate or expend the funds authorized in this item in a manner that accounts for the individual district court’s compliance with section 13 of chapter 300 of the acts of 2002; and provided further, that the fees shall continue to be transmitted to the treasurer for deposit into the General Fund before the expenditure authorized by this item ............. $20,000,000
0330-3335
For salary adjustments for clerks and assistant clerks; provided,
that any expenditures or allocations shall be made in accordance with schedules
submitted to the house and senate committees on ways and means 30 days before
the expenditures or allocations are made........................................................................................
$8,329,079
0331-0100 For
the administrative office of the superior court department including costs
associated with the administrative office of the superior court department and
the 15 divisions of the superior court; provided further, that not less than
$59,323 shall be expended for the medical malpractice tribunals established in
accordance with section 60B of chapter 231 of the General Laws; and provided
further, that not less than $178,902 shall be expended for the Suffolk superior
criminal court education and community outreach program..............................
$22,520,733
0332-0100 For
the office of the district court department, including a civil conciliation
program and the 62 divisions of the district court...............................................................................................................................................
$41,988,423
Probate
and
0333-0002 For
the administrative office of the probate and family court department, the 14
divisions of the probate court, the operation of the Berkshire, Franklin,
Hampden and Hampshire family court clinic to be administratively located in the
city of Springfield and to serve the Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden and Hampshire
divisions of the probate court, the Middlesex probate court family services
clinic, the Norfolk probate court family services clinic, and the Worcester
probate court family services clinic; provided, that the case manager shall meet
monthly with the department of social services and shall report quarterly to the
house and senate committees on ways and means on the backlog of cases in the
probate court and the parties' progress made in the backlog each month; provided further, that not less than
$79,495 shall be expended for the operation of a child and parents program in
the Barnstable probate court; provided further, that the child and parents
program shall not be subject to paragraphs (a) and (b) of clause (xxiii) of the
third paragraph of section 9 of chapter 211B of the General Laws; provided
further, that not less than $191,719 shall be expended for the Suffolk county
community access program for community outreach and education; provided further,
that the program shall be targeted at low income persons who experience
educational and language barriers to court access; and provided further, that
the program shall be administered by the register of probate of Suffolk county;
and provided further, that not less than $191,719 shall be expended for the
Middlesex community access program of community outreach and education; provided
further, that the program shall be targeted at low income persons who experience
educational and language barriers to court access; and provided further, that
the program shall be administered by the register of probate of Middlesex
county $19,464,404
0334-0001 For
the operation of the land court.................................................................................................
$2,388,874
0335-0001 For
the operation of the
0336-0002 For
the operation of the housing court department including costs associated with
the administrative office of the housing court department and the 5 divisions of
the housing court...................................
$4,475,016
0337-0002 For
the administrative office of the juvenile court and the personnel and expenses
associated with the expansion of the juvenile court, including Berkshire, Essex,
Hampshire/Franklin, Hampden, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk, Worcester
and Nantucket/Dukes counties; provided, that $100,000 shall be expended on the
Office
of the Commissioner of Probation.
0339-1001 For
the office of the commissioner of probation; provided, that notwithstanding any
general or special law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the commissioner,
subject to appropriation, shall have exclusive authority to appoint, dismiss,
assign and discipline probation officers, associate probation officers,
probation officers-in-charge, assistant chief probation officers and chief
probation officers; provided further, that the associate probation officers
shall only perform in-court functions and shall assume the in-court duties of
the currently employed probation officers who shall be reassigned within the
probation service subject to collective bargaining agreements to perform
intensive, community-based supervision of probationers, including the provisions
of intensive supervision and community restraint services as described in item
0339-1004; provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special law,
rule or regulation to the contrary, probation officer personnel and probation
clerical support staff assigned to the courts shall be provided with suitable
office space in their current location in and around the various divisions and
departments of the trial court, as the case may be, or in suitable office space
as appropriate, with the advice and consent of the commissioner; provided
further, that there shall be two regional program managers funded from this item
who shall be responsible for the oversight of the management and daily operation
of the probation electronic monitoring program; provided further, that the
office shall enter into an interagency service agreement with the department of
revenue to verify income data and to utilize the departments wage reporting and
bank match system for the purpose of weekly tape-matching for the purposes of
determining an individual’s eligibility for appointment of indigent counsel, as
defined in chapter 211D of the General Laws; provided further, that the office
shall submit quarterly reports to the house and senate committees on ways and
means detailing the progress of eligibility verification with the department;
and provided further, that the report shall include, but not be limited to, the
number of individuals to be found misrepresenting assets, revenue generated
through collection of indigent client fees, the average indigent client fee that
each court division collects per case since the effective date of this act,
recommendations on improvements in verifying eligibility for counsel and other
pertinent information to ascertain the effectiveness of verification.............................................................................................
$122,198,950
0339-1003 For
the operation of the trial court office of community corrections, including the
costs of personnel
$5,706,757
0339-1004 For
the cost of intensive supervision and community corrections programs; provided,
that the programs shall include, but not be limited to, tracking, community
service, educational assistance, drug and alcohol testing and treatment, curfew
enforcement, home confinement, day reporting, means-tested fines, restitution,
and community incapacitation or restraint; provided further, that the number of
placements in the programs shall not exceed a daily average goal of 5,000
intensively-supervised probationers; provided further, that funds from this item
shall be expended to cover the costs of the programs that are undertaken and
administered by court probation offices and county sheriffs’ offices; provided
further, that said funds shall be expended for the purpose of providing said
programs in Barnstable, Berkshire, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden,
Hampshire, Middlesex, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk, and Worcester
counties in fiscal year 2007; provided further, that the executive director of
the office of community corrections of the trial court shall enter into
interagency service agreements and memoranda of understanding with the probation
offices and sheriffs’ offices for the provision of said programs, including the
contracting for detention space for probationers arrested for violating
probation and awaiting court action and detention space for probationers who
have been ordered by the trial court to be supervised at a higher level of
restraint; provided further, that said agreements and memoranda shall be entered
into at the direction of the executive director; provided further, that the
executive director shall submit a spending and management plan for the programs
to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than
Office
of the Jury Commissioner.
0339-2100 For
the office of the jury commissioner in accordance with chapter 234A of the
General Laws
$2,310,457
0340-0100 For
the Suffolk district attorney’s office, including the victim and witness
assistance program, the child abuse and sexual assault prosecution program, the
domestic violence unit and the children’s advocacy center; provided, that the
office shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and
means not later than February 1, 2007 summarizing the number and types of
criminal cases managed or prosecuted by the office in calendar year 2006 and the
disposition or status thereof which shall be delineated by each jurisdiction of
the district, juvenile, probate or superior court in which the cases were
managed or prosecuted; provided further, that the office shall submit a report
to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1,
2007 detailing the total number and use of private attorneys participating in
any volunteer prosecutor program; provided further, that the report shall
include, but not be limited to, the following: (1) total number of personnel
from private law firms participating in the program; (2) name and address of the
law firms; (3) duties performed by the personnel; and (4) benefits and cost
savings associated with the program; provided further, that not more than
$125,000 shall be expended for a North Dorchester safe neighborhood initiative,
in Suffolk county; provided further, that 50 per cent of fees payable pursuant
to Massachusetts Rules of Criminal Procedure 15 (d) and 30 (c)(8) for appeals
taken by the office shall be paid from this item; provided further, that the
office shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and
means not later than February 15, 2007 detailing the office’s use of drug
forfeiture funds collected pursuant to chapter 94C of the General Laws; provided
further, that the report shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
(a) amount of the funds deposited into the office’s special law enforcement
trust fund in fiscal years 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006; (b) how the funds were
used in those fiscal years; and (c) balance of the trust fund as of January 1,
2007; provided further, that no assistant district attorney shall be paid an
annual salary of less than $35,000; and provided further, that at least 30 days
before transferring any funds authorized in this item from the AA object class,
the district attorney shall notify the house and senate committees on ways and
means of its intention to make that transfer ........................................................................................................................................................
$15,446,370
0340-0101 For the overtime
costs of state police officers assigned to the
General Fund
.......................................................................
11.80%
Highway Fund
....................................................................
88.20%
0340-0200 For
the Middlesex district attorney’s office, including the victim and witness
assistance program, the child abuse and sexual assault prosecution program, and
the domestic violence unit; provided, that the office shall submit a report to
the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1,
2007 summarizing the number and types of criminal cases managed or prosecuted by
the office in calendar year 2006 and the disposition or status thereof which
shall be delineated by each jurisdiction of the district, juvenile, probate or
superior court in which the cases were managed or prosecuted; provided further,
that 50 per cent of fees payable pursuant to Massachusetts Rules of Criminal
Procedure 15 (d) and 30 (c)(8) for appeals taken by the office shall be paid
from this item; provided further, that the office shall submit a report to the
house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 15, 2007
detailing the office’s use of drug forfeiture funds collected pursuant to
chapter 94C of the General Laws; provided further, that the report shall
include, but not be limited to, the following; (a) amount of the funds deposited
into the office’s special law enforcement trust fund in fiscal years 2003, 2004,
2005 and 2006; (b) how the funds were used in those fiscal years; and (c)
balance of the trust fund as of January 1, 2007; provided, that the office shall
submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later
than February 1, 2007 summarizing the number and types of criminal cases managed
or prosecuted by said office in calendar year 2006 and the disposition or status
thereof which shall be delineated by each jurisdiction of the district,
juvenile, probate or superior court in which the cases were managed or
prosecuted; provided further, that the office shall submit a report to the house
and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1, 2007
detailing the total number and use of private attorneys participating in any
volunteer prosecutor program provided further, that the report shall include,
but not be limited to, the following: (1) total number of personnel from private
law firms participating in said program; (2) name and address of the law firms;
(3) duties performed by the personnel; and (4) benefits and cost savings
associated with the program; provided further, that no assistant district
attorney shall be paid an annual salary of less than $35,000; and provided
further, before transferring any
funds authorized in this item from the AA object class, the district attorney
shall notify the house and senate committees on ways and means of its intention
to make that transfer........................................................................................................................
$12,113,638
0340-0201 For
the overtime costs of state police officers assigned to the Middlesex district
attorney’s office
$478,682
General Fund
.......................................................................
11.80%
Highway Fund
....................................................................
88.20%
0340-0300 For
the Eastern district attorney’s office, including the victim and witness
assistance program, the child abuse and sexual assault prosecution program, and
the domestic violence unit; provided, that the office shall submit a report to
the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1,
2007 summarizing the number and types of criminal cases managed or prosecuted by
the office in calendar year 2006 and the disposition or status thereof which
shall be delineated by each jurisdiction of the district, juvenile, probate or
superior court in which the cases were managed or prosecuted; provided further,
that 50 per cent of fees payable pursuant to Massachusetts Rules of Criminal
Procedure 15 (d) and 30 (c)(8) for appeals taken by the office shall be paid
from this item; provided further, that the office shall submit a report to the
house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 15, 2007
detailing the office’s use of drug forfeiture funds collected pursuant to
chapter 94C of the General Laws; provided further, that the report shall
include, but not be limited to, the following: (a) amount of the funds deposited
into the office’s special law enforcement trust fund in fiscal years 2003, 2004,
2005 and 2006; (b) how the funds were used in those fiscal years; and (c)
balance of the trust fund as of January 1, 2007; provided further, that no assistant
district attorney shall be paid an annual salary of less than $35,000; provided
further, before transferring any funds authorized in this item from the AA
object class, the district attorney shall notify the house and senate committees
on ways and means of its intention to make that transfer; and provided further,
that the office shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways
and means not later than February 1, 2007 detailing the total number and use of
private attorneys participating in any volunteer prosecutor program; provided
further, that the report shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
(1) total number of personnel from private law firms participating in the
program; (2) name and address of the law firms; (3) duties performed by the
personnel; and (4) benefits and cost savings associated with the program..........................................................
$7,738,780
0340-0301 For
the overtime costs of state police officers assigned to the Eastern district
attorney’s office
$447,132
General Fund
.......................................................................
11.80%
Highway Fund
....................................................................
88.20%
0340-0400 For
the Worcester district attorney’s office, including the victim and witness
assistance program, the child abuse and sexual assault prosecution program and
the domestic violence unit; provided, that the office shall submit a report to
the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1,
2007 summarizing the number and types of criminal cases managed or prosecuted by
the office in calendar year 2006 and the disposition or status thereof which
shall be delineated by each jurisdiction of the district, juvenile, probate or
superior court in which the cases were managed or prosecuted; provided further,
that $75,000 may be expended for financial criminal investigations; provided
further, that 50 per cent of fees payable pursuant to Massachusetts Rules of
Criminal Procedure 15 (d) and 30 (c)(8) for appeals taken by the office shall be
paid from this item; provided further, that the office shall submit a report to
the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 15,
2007 detailing the office’s use of drug forfeiture funds collected pursuant to
chapter 94C of the General Laws; provided further, that the report shall
include, but not be limited to, the following: (a) amount of the funds deposited
into the office’s special law enforcement trust fund in fiscal years 2003, 2004,
2005 and 2006; (b) how the funds were used in those fiscal years; and (c)
balance of the trust fund as of January 1, 2007; provided further, that the office shall
submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later
than February 1, 2007 detailing the total number and use of private attorneys
participating in any volunteer prosecutor program; provided further, that the
report shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (1) total number of
personnel from private law firms participating in the program; (2) name and
address of the law firms; (3) duties performed by the personnel; and (4)
benefits and cost savings associated with the program; provided further, that no
assistant district attorney shall be paid an annual salary of less than $35,000;
and provided further, before transferring any funds authorized in this item from
the AA object class, the district attorney shall notify the house and senate
committees on ways and means of its intention to make that transfer
..................................................................................................
$8,277,330
0340-0401 For
the overtime costs of state police officers assigned to the
General Fund
.......................................................................
11.80%
Highway Fund
....................................................................
88.20%
0340-0410 For
the analyses of narcotic drug synthetic substitutes, poisons, drugs, medicines
and chemicals at the
0340-0500 For
the Hampden district attorney’s office, including the victim and witness
assistance program, the child abuse and sexual assault prosecution program, and
the domestic violence unit; provided, that the office shall submit a report to
the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1,
2007 summarizing the number and types of criminal cases managed or prosecuted by
the office in calendar year 2006 and the disposition or status thereof which
shall be delineated by each jurisdiction of the district, juvenile, probate or
superior court in which the cases were managed or prosecuted; provided further,
that 50 per cent of fees payable pursuant to Massachusetts Rules of Criminal
Procedure 15 (d) and 30 (c)(8) for appeals taken by the office shall be paid
from this item; provided further, that the office shall submit a report to the
house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 15, 2007
detailing the office’s use of drug forfeiture funds collected pursuant to
chapter 94C of the General Laws; provided further, that the report shall
include, but not be limited to, the following: (a) amount of the funds deposited
into the office’s special law enforcement trust fund in fiscal years 2003, 2004,
2005 and 2006; (b) how the funds were used in those fiscal years; and (c)
balance of the trust fund as of January 1, 2007; provided further, that the
office shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and
means not later than February 1, 2007 detailing the total number and use of
private attorneys participating in any volunteer prosecutor program; provided
further, that the report shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
(1) total number of personnel from private law firms participating in the
program; (2) name and address of the law firms; (3) duties performed by the
personnel; and (4) benefits and cost savings associated with the program;
provided further, that no assistant district attorney shall be paid an annual
salary of less than $35,000; and provided further, before transferring any funds
authorized in this item from the AA object class, the district attorney shall
notify the house and senate committees
on ways and means of its intention to make that transfer .............................................................................
$7,086,499
0340-0501 For
the overtime costs of state police officers assigned to the Hampden district
attorney’s office
$322,619
General Fund
.......................................................................
11.80%
Highway Fund
....................................................................
88.20%
Hampshire/Franklin
District Attorney.
0340-0600 For
the Hampshire/Franklin district attorney’s office, including the victim and
witness assistance program, the child abuse and sexual assault prosecution
program, and the domestic violence unit; provided, that the office shall submit
a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than
February 1, 2007 summarizing the number and types of criminal cases managed or
prosecuted by the office in calendar year 2006 and the disposition or status
thereof which shall be delineated by each jurisdiction of the district,
juvenile, probate or superior court in which the cases were managed or
prosecuted; provided further, that 50 per cent of fees payable pursuant to
Massachusetts Rules of Criminal Procedure 15 (d) and 30 (c)(8) for appeals taken
by the office shall be paid from this item; provided further, that the office
shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not
later than February 15, 2007 detailing the office’s use of drug forfeiture funds
collected pursuant to chapter 94C of the General Laws; provided further, that
the report shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (a) amount of
the funds deposited into the office’s special law enforcement trust fund in
fiscal years 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006; (b) how the funds were used in said
fiscal years; and (c) balance of the trust fund as of January 1, 2007; provided
further, that the office shall submit a report to the house and senate
committees on ways and means not later than February 1, 2007 detailing the total
number and use of private attorneys participating in any volunteer prosecutor
program; provided further, that the report shall include, but not be limited to,
the following: (1) total number of personnel from private law firms
participating in the program; (2) name and address of the law firms; (3) duties
performed by the personnel; and (4) benefits and cost savings associated with
the program; provided further, that no assistant district attorney shall be paid
an annual salary of less than $35,000; provided further, that not less than
$150,000 shall be expended for the salaries and expenses of a children’s
advocacy project; and provided further, before transferring any funds authorized
in this item from the AA object class, the district attorney shall notify the
house and senate committees on ways and means of its intention to make that
transfer ................................
$4,717,216
0340-0601 For
the overtime costs of state police officers assigned to the Hampshire/Franklin
district attorney’s office
$226,191
General Fund
.......................................................................
11.80%
Highway Fund
....................................................................
88.20%
0340-0700 For
the Norfolk district attorney’s office, including the victim and witness
assistance program, the child abuse and sexual assault prosecution program, and
the domestic violence unit; provided, that the office shall submit a report to
the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1,
2007 summarizing the number and types of criminal cases managed or prosecuted by
the office in calendar year 2006 and the disposition or status thereof which
shall be delineated by each jurisdiction of the district, juvenile, probate or
superior court in which the cases were managed or prosecuted; provided further,
that 50 per cent of fees payable pursuant to Massachusetts Rules of Criminal
Procedure 15 (d) and 30 (c)(8) for appeals taken by the office shall be paid
from this item; provided further, that the office shall submit a report to the
house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 15, 2007
detailing the office’s use of drug forfeiture funds collected pursuant to
chapter 94C of the General Laws; provided further, that the report shall
include, but not be limited to, the following: (a) amount of the funds deposited
into the office’s special law enforcement trust fund in fiscal years 2003, 2004,
2005 and 2006; (b) how the funds were used in those fiscal years; and (c)
balance of the trust fund as of January 1, 2007; provided further, that the
office shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and
means not later than February 1, 2007 detailing the total number and use of
private attorneys participating in any volunteer prosecutor program; provided
further, that the report shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
(1) total number of personnel from private law firms participating in the
program; (2) name and address of the law firms; (3) duties performed by the
personnel; and (4) benefits and cost savings associated with the program;
provided further, that no assistant district attorney shall be paid an annual
salary of less than $35,000; and provided further, before transferring any funds
authorized in this item from the AA object class, the district attorney shall
notify the house and senate committees on ways and means of its intention to
make that transfer .............................................................................
$8,074,889
0340-0701 For
the overtime costs of state police officers assigned to the
General Fund
.......................................................................
11.80%
Highway Fund
....................................................................
88.20%
0340-0800 For
the Plymouth district attorney’s office, including the victim and witness
assistance program, the child abuse and sexual assault prosecution program, and
the domestic violence unit; provided, that the office shall submit a report to
the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1,
2007 summarizing the number and types of criminal cases managed or prosecuted by
the office in calendar year 2006 and the disposition or status thereof which
shall be delineated by each jurisdiction of the district, juvenile, probate or
superior court in which the cases were managed or prosecuted; provided further,
that 50 per cent of fees payable pursuant to Massachusetts Rules of Criminal
Procedure 15 (d) and 30 (c)(8) for appeals taken by the office shall be paid
from this item; provided further, that the office shall submit a report to the
house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 15, 2007
detailing the office’s use of drug forfeiture funds collected pursuant to
chapter 94C of the General Laws; provided further, that the report shall
include, but not be limited to, the following: (a) amount of the funds deposited
into the office’s special law enforcement trust fund in fiscal years 2003, 2004,
2005 and 2006; (b) how the funds were used in those fiscal years; and (c)
balance of the trust fund as of January 1, 2007; provided further, that the
office shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and
means not later than February 1, 2007 detailing the total number and use of
private attorneys participating in any volunteer prosecutor program; provided
further, that the report shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
(1) total number of personnel from private law firms participating in the
program; (2) name and address of the law firms; 3) duties performed by the
personnel; and (4) benefits and cost savings associated with the program;
provided further, that no assistant district attorney shall be paid an annual
salary of less than $35,000; and provided further, before transferring any funds
authorized in this item from the AA object class, the district attorney shall
notify the house and senate committees on ways and means of its intention to
make that transfer .............................................................................
$6,564,669
0340-0801 For
the overtime costs of state police officers assigned to the
General Fund
.......................................................................
11.80%
Highway Fund
....................................................................
88.20%
0340-0900 For
the Bristol district attorney’s office, including the victim and witness
assistance program, the child abuse and sexual assault prosecution program and
the domestic violence unit; provided, that the office shall submit a report to
the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1,
2007 summarizing the number and types of criminal cases managed or prosecuted by
the office in calendar year 2006 and the disposition or status thereof which
shall be delineated by each jurisdiction of the district, juvenile, probate or
superior court in which the cases were managed or prosecuted; provided further,
that 50 per cent of fees payable pursuant to Massachusetts Rules of Criminal
Procedure 15 (d) and 30 (c)(8) for appeals taken by the office shall be paid
from this item; provided further, that the office shall submit a report to the
house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1, 2007
detailing the total number and use of private attorneys participating in any
volunteer prosecutor program; provided further, that the report shall include,
but not be limited to, the following: (1) total number of personnel from private
law firms participating in the program; (2) name and address of the law firms;
(3) duties performed by the personnel; and (4) benefits and cost savings
associated with the program; provided further, that the office shall submit a
report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than
February 15, 2007 detailing the office’s use of drug forfeiture funds collected
pursuant to chapter 94C of the General Laws; provided further, that the report
shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (a) amount of the funds
deposited into the office’s special law enforcement trust fund in fiscal years
2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006; (b) how the funds were used in those fiscal years;
and (c) balance of the trust fund as of January 1, 2007; provided further, that
no assistant district attorney shall be paid an annual salary of less than
$35,000; and provided further, before transferring any funds authorized in this
item from the AA object class, the district attorney shall notify the house and
senate committees on ways and means of its intention to make that transfer ...........................................................
$6,695,993
0340-0901 For
the overtime costs of state police officers assigned to the
General Fund
.......................................................................
11.80%
Highway Fund
....................................................................
88.20%
0340-1000 For
the Cape and Islands district attorney’s office, including the victim and
witness assistance program, the child abuse and sexual assault prosecution
program and the domestic violence unit; provided, that $125,000 shall be
expended to support the sex offender management unit; provided further, that 2
prosecutors and administrative support shall be provided to the Cape Cod
offender management task force; provided further, that the office shall submit a
report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than
February 1, 2007 summarizing the number and types of criminal cases managed or
prosecuted by the office in calendar year 2006 and the disposition or status
thereof which shall be delineated by each jurisdiction of the district,
juvenile, probate or superior court in which the cases were managed or
prosecuted; provided further, that 50 per cent of fees payable pursuant to
Massachusetts Rules of Criminal Procedure 15 (d) and 30 (c)(8) for appeals taken
by the office shall be paid from this item; provided further, that the office
shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not
later than February 1, 2007 detailing the total number and use of private
attorneys participating in any volunteer prosecutor program; provided further,
that the report shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (1) total
number of personnel from private law firms participating in the program; (2)
name and address of the law firms; (3) duties performed by the personnel; and
(4) benefits and cost savings associated with the program; provided further,
that not more than $20,000 be expended for Cape & Islands Child Advocacy
Center at Children’s Cove in Hyannis; provided further, that the office shall
submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later
than February 15, 2007 detailing the office’s use of drug forfeiture funds
collected pursuant to chapter 94C of the General Laws; provided further, that
the report shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (a) amount of
the funds deposited into the office’s special law enforcement trust fund in
fiscal years 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006; (b) how the funds were used in those
fiscal years; and (c) balance of the trust fund as of January 1, 2007; provided
further, that no assistant district attorney shall be paid an annual salary of
less than $35,000; and provided further, before transferring any funds
authorized in this item from the AA object class, the district attorney shall
notify the house and senate committees on ways and means of its intention to
make that transfer ................................
$3,464,863
0340-1001 For
the overtime costs of state police officers assigned to the
General Fund
.......................................................................
11.80%
Highway Fund
....................................................................
88.20%
0340-1100 For
the Berkshire district attorney’s office, including the victim and witness
assistance program, the child abuse and sexual assault prosecution program, and
the domestic violence unit; provided, that the office shall submit a report to
the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1,
2007 summarizing the number and types of criminal cases managed or prosecuted by
the office in calendar year 2006 and the disposition or status thereof which
shall be delineated by each jurisdiction of the district, juvenile, probate or
superior court in which the cases were managed or prosecuted; provided further,
that 50 per cent of fees payable pursuant to Massachusetts Rules of Criminal
Procedure 15 (d) and 30 (c)(8) for appeals taken by the office shall be paid
from this item; provided further, that the office shall submit a report to the
house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 15, 2007
detailing the office’s use of drug forfeiture funds collected pursuant to
chapter 94C of the General Laws; provided further, that the report shall
include, but not be limited to, the following: (a) amount of the funds deposited
into the office’s special law enforcement trust fund in fiscal years 2003, 2004,
2005 and 2006; (b) how the funds were used in those fiscal years; and (c)
balance of the trust fund as of January 1, 2007; provided further, that the
office shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and
means not later than February 1, 2007 detailing the total number and use of
private attorneys participating in any volunteer prosecutor program; provided
further, that the report shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
(1) total number of personnel from private law firms participating in the
program; (2) name and address of the law firms; (3) duties performed by the
personnel; and (4) benefits and cost savings associated with the program;
provided further, that no assistant district attorney shall be paid an annual
salary of less than $35,000; and provided further, before transferring any funds
authorized in this item from the AA object class, the district attorney shall
notify the house and senate committees on ways and means of its intention to
make that transfer .............................................................................
$3,167,184
0340-1101 For
the overtime costs of state police officers assigned to the
General Fund
.......................................................................
11.80%
Highway Fund
....................................................................
88.20%
District
Attorneys’ Association.
0340-2100 For
the operation of the Massachusetts District Attorneys’ Association, including
the implementation and related expenses of the district attorneys’ office
automation and case management and tracking system, and for the costs associated
with maintaining the association’s wide-area network; provided further, that the
11 district attorneys of the commonwealth may contribute a portion of their
fiscal year 2007 appropriation to the Massachusetts District Attorneys’
Association in order to alleviate the cost of the case management and tracking
system as well as the cost of data lines associated with the district attorney’s
computer network; provided further, that each district attorney shall submit a
report to the Massachusetts District Attorneys’ Association and the house and
senate committees on ways and means delineating all funds expended for the
purpose of implementing the case management and tracking system not later than
January 30, 2007; provided further, that the report shall include, but not be
limited to, an analysis of the total cost of the district attorneys’ computer
network, the total cost incurred by each district attorney’s office, a detailed
list of all hardware and software leased, owned or operated by each district
attorney, a plan for any purchases to be made in the remainder of fiscal year
2007 and a detailed summary of any policies implemented to contain the costs of
the network by either the Massachusetts District Attorneys’ Association or the
individual district attorneys’ offices; provided further, that no expenditures
shall be made, on or after the effective date of this act, which would cause the
commonwealth’s obligation for the purpose of this item to exceed the amount
appropriated in this item; and provided further, that the association shall
submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later
than January 31, 2007 detailing, by district attorney office, all sources of
revenue, including, but not limited to, federal and state grants that were
received in fiscal year 2006, and the amount of each source of revenue..........................................................................................................................................................
$3,096,381
0411-1000 For
the offices of the governor, the lieutenant governor and the governor’s council;
provided, that the amount appropriated in this item may be used at the
discretion of the governor for the payment of extraordinary expenses not
otherwise provided for and for transfer to appropriation accounts where the
amounts otherwise available may be insufficient; provided further, that funds
may be expended for the governor’s commission on mental retardation; and
provided further, that the advisory council on Alzheimer’s disease and related
disorders, as established in the office of the governor by section 379 of
chapter 194 of the acts of 1998, and section 80 of chapter 236 of the acts of
2000, shall continue during fiscal year 2007 .....................................................................................
$5,035,741
SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH.
Office
of the Secretary of the Commonwealth.
0511-0000 For
the operation of the office of the secretary; provided, that the office shall
submit a report detailing staffing patterns for each program operated by the
office; provided further, that the report shall include, but not be limited to,
actual and functional job titles by program, compensation rates and lengths of
service for each employee; provided further, that the office shall submit the
report not later than
0511-0001 The
state secretary may expend revenues not to exceed $30,000 from the sale of
merchandise at the
0511-0108 The
state secretary acting on behalf of the commonwealth may sell, transfer or
license the division of corporations’ software and related documents pertaining
to its web based searching and filing applications, including uniform commercial
code software, developed by the department of the secretary and copyrighted by
it to other states, multi-state or regional associations or other sovereign
governments on such terms or conditions as in his sole discretion reasonably
compensates the commonwealth for its interests; provided, that the secretary may
retain and expend revenues collected from the sales, licensure or user
agreements in an amount not to exceed $50,000 for technical activities of the
corporations division, the remainder to be deposited in the General Fund;
provided further, that the secretary may also provide web hosting, and on-going
support and maintenance to other states, provinces or territories of Canada
relative to their UCC and corporate applications; and provided further, that the
department of the state secretary may accept credit and debit cards from
individuals and corporations filing documents with the department............................................................................................................................................
$50,000
0511-0200 For
the operation of the state archives division..............................................................................
$539,562
0511-0230 For
the operation of the records center.............................................................................................
$156,185
0511-0250 For
the operation of the archives facility.........................................................................................
$475,775
0511-0260 For the operation of the commonwealth museum; provided that not less than $1,500,000 shall be expended to renovate the museum to allow for exhibition of the state’s historic documents................................ $1,697,455
0511-0270 The
Secretary of State shall contract with the UMass Donahue Institute for not less
than $100,000 to provide the Commonwealth with technical assistance on US Census
Data and prepare annual population estimates
$100,000
0511-0420 For
the operation of the address confidentiality program.............................................................
$112,991
0517-0000 For
the printing of public documents...............................................................................................
$907,957
0521-0000 For
the operation of the elections division, including preparation, printing and
distribution of ballots and for other miscellaneous expenses for primary and
other elections; provided, that the secretary of state may award grants for
voter registration and education in the cities of Boston, Springfield, Lawrence
and Worcester; provided further, that the registration and education activities
may be conducted by community-based voter registration and education
organizations; and provided further, that the secretary shall submit a report to
the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than
0521-0001 For
the operation of the central voter registration computer system; provided, that
an annual report detailing voter registration activity shall be submitted to the
house and senate committees on ways and means on or before
0524-0000 For
providing information to voters..............................................................................................
$1,201,161
0526-0100 For
the operation of the
0527-0100 For
the operation of the ballot law commission................................................................................
$12,380
0528-0100 For
the operation of the records conservation board........................................................................
$39,307
0540-0900 For
the registry of deeds located in
0540-1000 For
the registry of deeds located in
0540-1100 For
the registry of deeds in the former
0540-1200 For
the registry of deeds in the former
0540-1300 For
the registry of deeds in the former
0540-1400 For
the registry of deeds located in
0540-1500 For
the registry of deeds located in
0540-1600 For
the registry of deeds located in
0540-1700 For
the registry of deeds located in
0540-1800 For
the registry of deeds located in Great Barrington in the former
0540-1900 For
the registry of deeds in the former
0540-2000 For
the registry of deeds located in
0540-2100 For
the registry of deeds located in the city of
0540-2500 For
moving and relocation costs for the Essex registry of deeds, northern district;
Essex registry of deeds, southern district; and Worcester registry of deeds;
provided, that the secretary shall submit a report to the house and senate
committees on ways and means not later than
TREASURER
Office
of the Treasurer and Receiver General.
0610-0000 For
the office of the treasurer and receiver-general; provided, that the treasurer
shall provide computer services required by the teachers’ retirement board;
provided further, that to the extent that bank fees exceed the amount
appropriated in item 0610-0100, the treasurer may, subject to an allocation plan
filed in advance with the house and senate committees on ways and means,
transfer from this item to said item 0610-0100, an amount sufficient to ensure
full payment of the bank fees;
provided further, that not less than $37,000 shall be granted to the elder
advocacy organization known as the Silver-Haired Legislature; provided further, that the treasurer’s
office shall submit a report to the victim and witness assistance board which
details the amount of assessments transmitted to the treasurer during the
previous calendar year on a monthly basis from the courts, the registrar of
motor vehicles and the sheriff or superintendent of any correctional facility
pursuant to section 8 of chapter 258B; provided further, that the report shall
be submitted to the board on or before
General Fund......................................................................................
90.0%
Highway Fund....................................................................................
10.0%
0610-0050 For
the administration of the alcoholic beverages control commission in its efforts
to regulate and control the conduct and condition of traffic in alcoholic
beverages; provided, that said commission shall maintain at least one chief
investigator and other investigators for the purpose of regulating and
controlling the traffic of alcoholic beverages; provided further, that said
commission is authorized and directed to work and cooperate with the Alcohol,
Tobacco, and Firearms division of the United States Department of Justice and
other relevant federal agencies to assist in its efforts to regulate and control
the traffic of alcoholic beverages; and provided further, that said commission
is directed to seek out matching federal dollars and to apply for federal grants
that may be available to assist in the enforcement of laws pertaining to the
traffic of alcoholic beverages..................................
$1,875,098
0610-0100 For
the payment of bank fees; provided, that the treasurer may transfer funds from
this item to item 0610-0000 for one-time, non-recurring expenditures upon
certification to the secretary of administration and finance that the remaining
balance in this account will be sufficient to make all necessary
expenditures..................
$3,600,000
General Fund......................................................................................
90.0%
Highway Fund....................................................................................
10.0%
0610-0140 For the purpose of funding administrative, transactional and research expenses associated with maintaining and increasing the interest earnings on the Commonwealth’s General and Stabilization Fund investments $25,000
0610-2000 For payments made to veterans pursuant to section 16 of chapter 130 of the acts of 2005; provided, that the office of the state treasurer may expend not more than $150,000 for costs incurred in the administration of these payments.......................................................................................................................................................... $3,643,000
0611-1010 For
the cost of life insurance premiums for National Guard members pursuant to
section 6 of chapter 130 of the acts of 2005.................................................................................................................................................
$1,170,000
0611-1000 For bonus payments to war veterans.................................................................................................... $50,000
0611-5500 For
additional assistance to cities and towns to be distributed according to section
3 and for assistance to certain public entities of the commonwealth which have
constructed water pollution abatement facilities; provided, that the
distribution to the public entities shall equal $1,249,948; and provided
further, that if there is a conflict between the provisions of the distribution
set forth in section 3 and any other provisions of this act, the distribution
set forth in section 3 shall control..............................................................................................................
$379,767,936
0611-5510 For
reimbursements to cities and towns in lieu of taxes on state-owned land pursuant
to sections 13 to 17, inclusive, of chapter 58 of the General Laws................................................................................................
$25,300,000
0611-5800 For
distribution to each city and town within which racing meetings are conducted pursuant to section 18D of
chapter 58 of the General Laws.................................................................................................................
$2,500,000
Pension
Benefits.
0612-0105 For
payment of the public safety employee killed in the line of duty benefit
authorized by section 100A of chapter 32 of the General Laws..........................................................................................................................
$500,000
Commission
on Firefighters’ Relief.
0620-0000 For financial assistance to injured firefighters..................................................................................... $9,808
Lottery
Commission.
0640-0000 For
the operation of the state lottery commission and arts lottery; provided, that
no funds shall be expended from this item for any costs associated with the
promotion or advertising of lottery games; provided further, that not later than
0640-0005 For
the costs associated with the continued implementation of the game of Keno;
provided, that any sums expended on promotional activities shall be limited to
point of sale promotions and agent newsletters; and provided further, that 25
per cent of the amount appropriated in this item shall be transferred quarterly
from the State Lottery Fund to the General Fund..................................................................................................................................
$1,218,394
0640-0010 For
the promotional activities associated with the state lottery program; provided,
that 25 per cent of the amount appropriated in this item shall be transferred
quarterly from the State Lottery Fund to the General Fund........................................................................................................................................................
$10,000,000
0640-0013 For
the costs of the anti-litter program; provided, that said lottery may continue
to develop regional environmental awareness events to limit the number of
discarded instant tickets that become litter; and provided further, that 25 per
cent of the amount appropriated in this item shall be transferred quarterly from
the State Lottery Fund to the General Fund....................................................................................................................................................
$100,000
0640-0096 For
the purpose of the commonwealth’s fiscal year 2007 contributions to the health and
welfare fund established pursuant to the collective-bargaining agreement between
the lottery commission and the service employees international union, Local 254,
0640-0300 For
the services and operations of the council, including grants to or contracts
with public and non-public entities; provided, that notwithstanding any general
or special law to the contrary, the council may expend the amounts herein
appropriated for the purposes of the council as provided in sections 52 to 58,
inclusive, of chapter 10 of the General Laws in amounts and at times as the
council may determine pursuant to section 54 of said chapter 10; provided
further, that 25 per cent of the amount appropriated herein shall be transferred
quarterly from the Arts Lottery Fund to the General Fund; provided further, that
any funds expended from this item for the benefit of schoolchildren shall be
expended for the benefit of all Massachusetts schoolchildren and on the same
terms and conditions; provided further, that the council shall not expend funds
from this item for any grant or contract recipient that, in any program or
activity for Massachusetts schoolchildren, does not apply the same terms and
conditions to all schoolchildren; provided further, that not more than
$1,000,000 of the funds appropriated herein shall be used to assist cultural
organizations in augmenting or initiating endowments to promote the financial
stability of the organizations and the assistance shall be in the form of
challenge grants to the organizations; provided further, that in order to
receive a grant a cultural organization shall raise an amount at least equal to
the amount of the grant for the organization’s endowment; provided further, that
funds provided by the grants shall, in perpetuity, be used solely to provide
free or reduced rate public programs or services to citizens of the
commonwealth; provided further,
that a grant made under this program shall not exceed $100,000; and provided
further, that a person employed under this item shall be considered an employee
within the meaning of section 1 of chapter 150E of the General Laws and shall be
placed in the appropriate bargaining unit...........................................................................
$8,650,000
0640-0350 For
the purposes of cultural resources pursuant to section 36 of chapter 69 of the
General Laws including grants to or contracts with public and non-public
entities; provided, that the council shall not expend funds from this item for
any recipient that, in any program or activity for Massachusetts schoolchildren,
does not apply the same terms and conditions to all such schoolchildren; and
provided further, that 25 per cent of the amount appropriated herein shall be
transferred quarterly from the Arts Lottery Fund to the General Fund..............................
$743,520
0640-0351 For
the John and Abigail Adams Arts Program, to promote innovations in the arts and
humanities within the commonwealth through the disbursement of cultural economic
development grants including grants for cultural activities that have the
capacity to revitalize communities, stimulate income, create or enhance jobs,
and attract tourism; provided, that the funds shall be administered by the
Massachusetts cultural council; provided further, that the mission of grant
applicants may include demonstrated scholarship or creativity in, or
distinguished service to, the arts and humanities; provided, that grants may
focus on seed funding for early stage planning or implementation, creation of
enduring partnerships among cultural and non-cultural organizations, defined
community needs or opportunities, and creation of innovative and sustainable
development models that can be replicated throughout and beyond the
commonwealth; provided further, that eligible applicants shall include, but not
be limited to, not-for-profit organizations and public sector entities; provided
further, that collaborating partners may also include private, for-profit
organizations, educational institutions and state or federal agencies; provided
further, that grants shall not exceed $100,000 and shall be leveraged by not
less than $1 for each $1 granted; provided further, that preference shall be
given to an applicant with multiple funding sources that can demonstrate project
viability, community support and potential for long-term sustainability; and
provided further, that 25 per cent of the amount appropriated herein shall be
transferred quarterly from the State Lottery Fund to the General Fund... $2,000,000
Debt
Service.
0699-0015 For
the payment of interest, discount and principal on certain bonded debt and the
sale of bonds of the commonwealth, previously charged to the Local Aid Fund, the
State Recreation Areas Fund, the Metropolitan Parks District Fund, the
Metropolitan Water District Fund, the Metropolitan Sewerage District Fund, the
Watershed Management Fund, the Highway Fund, and the Inter-City Bus Fund;
provided, that payments of certain serial bonds maturing previously charged to
the Local Aid Fund, the State Recreation Areas Fund, the Metropolitan Water
District Fund, the Metropolitan Sewerage District Fund, and the Highway Fund
shall be paid from this item; provided further, that notwithstanding any general
or special law to the contrary, the state treasurer may make payments pursuant
to section 38C of chapter 29 of the General Laws from this item and item
0699-9100; provided further, that the payments shall pertain to the bonds,
notes, or other obligations authorized to be paid from each item; provided
further, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the
comptroller may transfer the amounts that would otherwise be unexpended on June
30, 2007, from item 0699-0015 to item 0699-9100 or from item 0699-9100 to item
0699-0015 which would otherwise have insufficient amounts to meet debt service
obligations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007; provided further, that
each amount transferred shall be charged to the funds as specified in the item
to which the amount is transferred; provided further, that payments on bonds
issued pursuant to section 2O of chapter 29 of the General Laws shall be paid
from this item and shall be charged to the Infrastructure sub-fund of the
Highway fund; provided further, that payments of interest, discount and
principal on certain bonded debt of the commonwealth associated with the
Watershed Management Fund for the acquisition of development rights and other
interests in land, including fee simple acquisitions of watershed lands of the
Quabbin and Wachusett reservoirs and the Ware river watershed above the Ware
river intake pipe shall be paid from this item; provided further, that
notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary or other provisions
of this item, the comptroller may charge the payments authorized herein to the
appropriate budgetary or other fund subject to a plan which the comptroller
shall file 10 days in advance with the house and senate committees on ways and
means; and provided further, that the comptroller shall transfer from this item
to the government land bank fund an amount equal to the amount by which debt
service charged to said fund exceeds revenue deposited to said fund $1,781,299,000
General Fund......................................................................................
68.07%
Highway Fund....................................................................................
31.93%
0699-2004 For
the payment of interest, discount and principal on certain indebtedness which
may be incurred for financing the central artery/third harbor tunnel funding
shortfall..............................................................
$78,987,000
Highway Fund.................................................................................
100.0%
0699-9100 For
the payment of interest and issuance costs on bonds and bond and revenue
anticipation notes and other notes pursuant to sections 47 and 49B of chapter 29
of the General Laws; provided, that the treasurer shall certify to the
comptroller a schedule of the distribution of costs among the various funds of
the commonwealth; provided further, that the comptroller shall charge costs to
the funds in accordance with the schedule; and provided further, that any
deficit in this item at the close of the fiscal year ending
0699-9101 For
the purpose of depositing with the trustee under the trust agreement authorized
in section 10B of chapter 11 of the acts of 1997 an amount to be used to pay the
interest due on notes of the commonwealth issued pursuant to section 9 of said
chapter 11 and secured by the Federal Highway Grant Anticipation Note Trust
Fund $60,995,000
0699-9200 For
certain debt service contract assistance to the Massachusetts Development
Finance Agency in accordance with chapter 23G of the General Laws...........................................................................................
$10,161,888
Office
of the State Auditor.
0710-0000 For
the office of the state auditor, including the review and monitoring of
privatization contracts in accordance with sections 52 to 55, inclusive, of
chapter 7 of the General Laws and shared oversight of the central artery/third
harbor tunnel project; provided further, that not less than $67,250 shall be
expended for the position of executive director of the central artery/third
harbor tunnel project oversight coordination commission, as established in
section 2B of chapter 205 of the acts of 1996, such that the position may
continue to provide administrative and investigative functions to the commission
in a manner that is consistent with said section 2B; and provided further, that
the auditor’s office shall pay half of the administrative costs of the municipal
finance oversight board from this item
$15,428,202
0710-0100 For
the operation of the division of local mandates ......................................................................
$623,699
0710-0200 For
the operation of the bureau of special investigations; provided, that the
department shall file quarterly reports with the house and senate committees on
ways and means detailing the total amount of fraudulently obtained benefits
identified by the bureau of special investigations of the office of the state
auditor, the total value of settlement restitution payments, actual monthly
collections, and any circumstances that produce shortfalls in collections..........................................................................................................................................................
$1,629,595
0710-0225 For the
operation of the medicaid audit unit within the division of audit operations in
an effort to prevent and to identify fraud and abuse in the MassHealth system;
provided, that the federal reimbursement for any expenditure from this item
shall not be less than 50 per cent; and provided further, that the division
shall submit a report no later than
Office
of the Attorney General.
0810-0000 For
the office of the attorney general, including the administration of the local
consumer aid fund, the operation of the anti-trust division, all regional
offices, a high-tech crime unit and the victim and witness compensation program;
provided, that the victim and witness compensation program shall be administered
in accordance with chapters 258B and 258C of the General Laws; provided further,
that the attorney general shall submit to the general court and the secretary
for administration and finance a report detailing the claims submitted to the
state treasurer for payment under item 0810-0004 indicating both the number and
costs for each category of claim; provided further, that not more than $250,000
shall be expended for a grants program for the safe neighborhood initiative-jobs
for youth program; provided further, that not more than $250,000 shall be
expended for a safe neighborhood initiative program in the Grove Hall area of
Boston; provided further, that not more than $250,000 shall be expended from the
funds appropriated in this item for a safe neighborhood initiative pilot program
in the Bowdoin/Geneva area of the Dorchester district of the city of Boston and
in the city of New Bedford; provided further, that the public proceedings unit
shall review the water rate increases; provided further, that not more than
$240,000 shall be expended for the operation of a child protection unit;
provided further, that funds may be expended for the commission on uniform state
laws; provided further, that $50,000 shall be expended for the Trauma
Intervention Program of Merrimack Valley; provided further, that not less than
$200,000 shall be expended for the National TenPoint Leadership Foundation to
reduce gang-related violence in the cities of Brockton, Worcester and
Springfield; and provided further, that $260,000 shall be expended for the Ella
J. Baker House in the city of Boston for violence prevention programs for
high-risk youth....................................................................................................
$22,687,962
0810-0004 For
compensation to victims of violent crimes; provided, that notwithstanding
chapter 258C of the General Laws, if a claimant is 60 years of age or older at
the time of the crime and is not employed or receiving unemployment
compensation, the claimant shall be eligible for compensation in accordance with
said chapter 258C even if the claimant has suffered no out-of-pocket loss;
provided further, that compensation to the claimant shall be limited to a
maximum of $50; and provided further, that notwithstanding any general or
special law to the contrary, victims of the crime of rape shall be notified of
all available services designed to assist rape victims including, but not
limited to the provisions outlined in section 5 of chapter 258B of the General
Laws........................
$2,156,000
0810-0006 For
the rental costs and unavoidable space rental lease obligations associated with
certain divisions of the office of the attorney general located in the Leverett
Saltonstall building..............................................
$2,414,150
0810-0007 For
the overtime costs of state police officers assigned to the attorney general;
provided, that costs associated with those officers shall not be funded from
item 8100-0007; and provided further, that expenditures shall not be made on or
after the effective date of this act which would cause the commonwealth’s
obligation for the purpose of this item to exceed the amount appropriated in
this item..............................................................................
$486,517
Highway Fund ..................................................................................
88.20%
General Fund ....................................................................................
11.80%
0810-0014 For
the operation of the department of telecommunications and energy proceedings
unit, pursuant to section 11E of chapter 12 of the General Laws; provided, that
not withstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the amount assessed
under said section 11E of said chapter 12 of the General Laws, shall equal the
amount expended from this item and provided further, that not less than $200,000
shall be expended for the expenses of legal and technical personnel and
associated administrative and travel expenses relative to participation in
regulatory proceedings at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on behalf
of Massachusetts ratepayers..........................................................................................................................................................
$1,609,028
0810-0017 For
the expenses related to judicial proceedings relevant to the fuel charge
pursuant to section 94G of chapter 164 of the General Laws and such other
proceedings as may be reasonably related to the section; provided, that the
assessment levied for such expense shall be credited to the General Fund..............................
$73,500
0810-0021 For
the operation of the Medicaid fraud control unit; provided, that the federal
reimbursement for any expenditure from this item shall not be less than 75 per
cent of the expenditure; provided further, that not less than $225,000 shall
continue to be used specifically for the investigation and prosecution of abuse,
neglect, mistreatment and misappropriation based on referrals from the
department of public health pursuant to section 72H of chapter 111 of the
General Laws; provided further, that the unit shall provide training for all
investigators of the department’s division of health care quality responsible
for the investigations on a periodic basis pursuant to a comprehensive training
program to be developed by the division and the unit; and provided further, that
training shall include instruction on techniques for improving the efficiency
and quality of investigations of abuse, neglect, mistreatment and
misappropriation pursuant to said section 72H of said chapter 111............................
$2,656,033
0810-0045 For
the labor law enforcement program pursuant to subsection (b) of section 1 of
chapter 23 of the General Laws; provided, that notwithstanding any general or
special law to the contrary, a non-management position funded by this item shall
be considered a job title in a collective bargaining unit as prescribed by the
labor relations commission and shall be subject to chapter 150E of the General
Laws....................................................
$3,105,528
0810-0201 For
the costs incurred in administrative or judicial proceedings on insurance as
authorized by section 11F of chapter 12 of the General Laws; provided, that
funds made available in this item may be used to supplement the automobile
insurance fraud unit and the workers’ compensation fraud unit of the office of
the attorney general; and provided further, that notwithstanding any general or
special law to the contrary, the amount assessed for the costs shall be equal to
the amount expended from this item..........................................................................
$1,389,979
0810-0338 For
the investigation and prosecution of automobile insurance fraud; provided, that
notwithstanding section 3 of chapter 399 of the acts of 1991, the amount
assessed pursuant to said section 3 for the cost of this program shall be
$280,164............................................................................................................................................
$280,164
0810-0399 For
the investigation and prosecution of workers’ compensation fraud; provided, that
notwithstanding section 3 of chapter 399 of the acts of 1991, the amount
assessed pursuant to said section 3 for the cost of this program shall be
$280,164; provided further, that the attorney general shall investigate and
prosecute, where appropriate, employers who fail to provide workers’
compensation insurance in accordance with the laws of the commonwealth; and
provided further, that the unit shall investigate and report on all companies
not in compliance with chapter 152 of the General Laws.....................................................................................................................................
$280,164
Victim
and Witness Assistance Board
0840-0100 For
the operation of the victim and witness assistance board; provided, that the
board shall submit a comprehensive report compiled from the information required
of and submitted to the office by the trial court, the registry of motor
vehicles and the state treasurer relative to the collection of assessments for
the previous calendar year under section 8 of chapter 258B of the General Laws;
and provided further, that the report shall be submitted to the house and senate
committees on ways and means on or before
0840-0101 For
the salaries and administration of the safeplan advocacy program, to be
administered by the Massachusetts office of victim assistance; provided, that
the office shall submit to the
house and senate committees on ways and means not later than
0900-0100 For
the operation of the state ethics commission........................................................................
$1,535,370
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL
0910-0200 For
the operation of the office of the inspector general.............................................................
$2,716,695
0910-0210 The
office of the inspector general may expend revenues collected up to a maximum of
$493,819 from the fees charged to participants in the Massachusetts public
purchasing official certification program and the certified public manager
program for the operation of such programs; provided, that for the purpose of
accommodating discrepancies between the receipts of retained revenues and
related expenditures, the office of the inspector general may incur expenses and
the comptroller may certify for payment amounts not to exceed the lower of this
authorization or the most recent revenue estimate as reported in the state
accounting system...................................................
$493,819
OFFICE OF CAMPAIGN
0920-0300 For
the operation of the office of campaign and political finance...........................................
$1,143,508
OFFICE OF THE STATE COMPTROLLER.
1000-0001 For the office of the state comptroller for the purpose and cost of compliance with the Single Audit Act of 1984, Public Law 89-502, and for the federally required comprehensive, statewide single audit of state operations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007 in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles; provided, that the office of the comptroller shall charge other items of appropriation for the cost of the audit from allocated federal funds transferred from federal reimbursement and grant receipts; provided further, that the office of the comptroller shall charge not more than a total of $750,000 to other items of appropriation for the cost of the audit; provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, allocated federal funds transferred from federal reimbursement and grant receipts shall be retained and expended from a separate item without further appropriation, in addition to state funds appropriated to this item, for the cost of compliance with the mandate of the federal law and the office of management and budget regulations; provided further, that the amount of any such federal funds and grant receipts so credited and expended from this item shall be reported to the house and senate committees on ways and means; provided further, that the comptroller shall maintain a special federal and non-tax revenue unit which shall operate under policies and procedures developed in conjunction with the secretary for administration and finance; provided further, that the comptroller shall provide quarterly reports to the house and senate committees on ways and means which shall include for each state agency for which the commonwealth is billing, the eligible state services, the full year estimate of revenues and revenues collected; provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the comptroller may enter into contracts with private vendors to identify and pursue cost avoidance opportunities for programs of the commonwealth and to enter into interdepartmental service agreements with state agencies, as applicable, for said purpose; provided further, that 60 days before entering into any interdepartmental service agreements the comptroller shall notify the house and senate committees on ways and means; provided further, that said notification shall include, but not be limited to, a description of the project, the purpose and intent of the interdepartmental service agreement, a projection of the costs avoided in the current fiscal year, a copy of the contract with the private vendor including the proposed rate of compensation and any previous agreements related or similar to the new agreement with the above information; provided further, that payments to private vendors on account of the cost avoidance projects shall be made only from such actual cost savings as have been certified in writing to the house and senate committees on ways and means by the comptroller and the budget director as attributable to the cost avoidance projects; provided further, that the comptroller may establish such procedures, in consultation with the budget director and the affected departments, as he considers appropriate and necessary to accomplish the purpose of this section; and provided further, that the comptroller shall report on the projects as a part of his annual report pursuant to section 12 of chapter 7A of the General Laws $9,089,154
EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR ADMINISTRATION
Office
of the Secretary.
1100-1100 For
the office of the secretary and the administration of the fiscal affairs
division; provided, that the secretary shall conduct an ongoing review of
affirmative action steps taken by the various agencies, boards, departments,
commissions or divisions to determine whether such agencies, boards,
departments, commissions or divisions are complying with the commonwealth’s
policies of non-discrimination and equal opportunity; provided further, that
whenever non-compliance is determined by the secretary, the secretary shall hold
a public hearing on the matter and report his resulting recommendations to the
head of the particular agency, board, department, commission or division, to the
governor and to the Massachusetts commission against discrimination; provided
further, that the secretary shall report on the status of each agency, board,
department, commission or division receiving monies under this act, including
supplemental and deficiency budgets, as to compliance or non-compliance with
affirmative action policies to the chairs of the house and senate committees on
ways and means, the joint committee on public service and the joint committee on
commerce and labor on or before December 1, 2006; provided further, that
agencies within the executive office may, with the prior approval of the
secretary, streamline and improve administrative operations pursuant to
interdepartmental service agreements; provided further, that the secretary of
administration and finance in conjunction with the trial court, the executive
office of health and human services, the division of capital asset management
and maintenance, the bureau of state office buildings and the division of energy
resources, shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and
means concerning the commonwealth's energy costs, which shall include, but not
be limited to: (a) energy consumption and costs incurred by commonwealth-owned
or operated facilities, including the state house, state office buildings,
hospitals, courthouses, correction facilities and related properties, (b) cost saving
initiatives relating to energy consumption and procurement, (c) the energy
consumption and costs for all vehicles operated by the commonwealth and its
subsidiary secretariats and agencies, and (d) the current status of the state’s
energy infrastructure and plans for either replacement or conversion of existing
systems; provided further, that the report shall be submitted not later than
January 26, 2007; and provided
further, that the budget director shall report on a quarterly basis to the house
and senate committees on ways and means the status of all cost avoidance
projects which are undertaken pursuant to item 1000-0001 $3,529,636
Division
of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance.
1102-3205 The
division may expend for the maintenance and operation of the Massachusetts
information technology center an amount not to exceed $6,810,000 in revenues
collected from rentals, commissions, fees, parking fees and any and all other
sources pertaining to the operations of said center; provided, that
notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, and for the purpose
of accommodating discrepancies between the receipt of retained revenues and
related expenditures, the division may incur expenses and the comptroller may
certify for payment amounts not to exceed the lower of this authorization or the
most recent revenue estimate therefore as reported in the state accounting
system.........................................................................................................................
$6,810,000
1102-3206 For
the costs associated with the maintenance and security of surplus state
properties; provided, that the division shall submit quarterly reports that
detail the hire date, salary, and job title of every employee at the division
and the amount associated with each bond authorization; and provided further,
the division shall submit a report that details every employee at the division
including the hire date, salary, and job title for fiscal years 2003, 2004,
2005, 2006 and 2007 to the house and senate committees on ways and means on or
before
1102-3214 For
the state transportation building; provided, that the division may expend
revenues collected up to a maximum of $7,290,000 from rentals, commissions,
fees, parking fees and from any and all other sources pertaining to the
operation of the state transportation building for the maintenance and operation
of said building; and provided further, that for the purpose of accommodating
discrepancies between the receipt of retained revenues and related expenditures,
the division may incur expenses and the comptroller may certify for payment
amounts not to exceed the lower of this authorization or the most recent revenue
estimate as reported in the state accounting system..........................................................................................................................................................
$7,290,000
1102-3231 For
the Springfield state office building; provided, that the division may expend
not more than $750,000 in revenues from rents charged to agencies occupying the
building for the maintenance and operation of the building; and provided
further, that for the purpose of accommodating discrepancies between the receipt
of retained revenues and related expenditures, the division may incur expenses
and the comptroller may certify for payment amounts not to exceed the lower of
this authorization or the most recent revenue estimate as reported in the state
accounting system..............................................................................................................................................................
$750,000
1102-3232 For
the division of capital asset maintenance and management; provided, that the
division may expend not more than $300,000 received from application fees
charged in conjunction with the certification of contractors and subcontractors
pursuant to section 44D of chapter 149 of the General Laws; and provided
further, that only expenses, including staffing, incurred to implement and
operate the certification program shall be funded from this item..............................................................................................................................................................
$300,000
Bureau
of State Office Buildings.
1102-3301 For
the operation of the bureau and for the maintenance and operation of buildings
under the jurisdiction of the state superintendent of buildings; provided, that
the bureau shall retain jurisdiction over all contracts, purchases and payments
for materials and services required in the operation of the bureau....................
$6,766,065
1102-3302 For
the purposes of utility costs and associated contracts for the properties
managed by the bureau of state office buildings.........................................................................................................................................
$6,917,582
1102-3306 For the maintenance and joint operation of the state house under the jurisdiction of the state superintendent of state office buildings and the legislature’s joint committee on rules; provided, that the bureau shall work in coordination with the house of representatives and the senate relative to the maintenance, repair, purchases and payments for materials and services...................................................................................................................... $750,000
Office
on Disability.
1107-2400 For
the office on disability..................................................................................................................
$753,978
Disabled
Persons Protection Commission.
1107-2501 For the disabled persons protection commission; provided, that the commission shall facilitate compliance by the department of mental health and the department of mental retardation with uniform investigative standards; provided further, that the commission shall report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than the last day of each quarter on the number of claims of abuse by caretakers made by employees or contracted service employees of the departments of mental retardation and mental health and the Massachusetts rehabilitation commission; provided further, that the report shall include: (i) the number of claims found to be substantiated; (ii) the number of claims found to be unsubstantiated; and (iii) the number of claims found to be falsely reported as a result of intentional and malicious action; and provided further, that the commission shall ensure that all calls received by the commission’s 24-hour hotline are recorded, that all persons who call said hotline shall be immediately informed that all calls are recorded, and each such person shall be provided with the opportunity to elect that the call not be recorded........................................................................................................................................... $1,873,986
Civil
Service Commission.
1108-1011 For
the civil service commission; provided, that the General Fund shall be
reimbursed for the appropriation herein through a fee charged on a per claim
basis; provided further, that said commission shall develop and implement
regulations to implement said reimbursement to the General Fund; and provided
further, the civil service commission shall have the power to assess a fee upon
the appointing authority when inappropriate action has occurred $482,554
Group
Insurance Commission.
1108-5100 For
the administration of the group insurance commission; provided, that the
commission shall generate the maximum amounts allowable under the federal
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, as amended, and from
reimbursements allowed by sections 8, 10B, 10C and 12 of chapter 32A of the
General Laws
$2,518,229
1108-5200 For
the commonwealth’s share of the group insurance premium and plan costs incurred
in fiscal year 2007; provided, that notwithstanding any general or special law
to the contrary, funds in this item shall not be available during the
accounts-payable period of fiscal year 2007, and any unexpended balance in this
item shall revert to the General Fund on June 30, 2007; provided, that the
secretary of administration and finance shall charge the division of
unemployment assistance and other departments, authorities, agencies and
divisions, which have federal or other funds allocated to them for this purpose,
for that portion of insurance premiums and plan costs as the secretary
determines should be borne by such funds, and shall notify the comptroller of
the amounts to be transferred, after similar determination, from the several
state or other funds and amounts received in payment of all such charges or such
transfers shall be credited to the General Fund; provided further, that prior
year costs incurred by self insured plans shall be funded from this item;
provided further, that the group insurance commission shall report quarterly to
the house and senate committees on ways and means the amounts expended from this
item for prior year costs; provided further, that the group insurance commission
shall obtain reimbursement for premium and administrative expenses from other
agencies and authorities not funded by state appropriation; provided further,
that the secretary of administration and finance may charge all agencies for the
commonwealth’s share of the health insurance costs incurred on behalf of any
employees of those agencies who are on leave of absence for a period of more
than 1 year; provided further, that the amounts received in payment for the
charges shall be credited to the General Fund; provided further, that
notwithstanding section 26 of chapter 29 of the General Laws, the commission may
negotiate, purchase and execute contracts before July 1 of each year for
policies of group insurance as authorized by chapter 32A of the General Laws;
provided further, that notwithstanding chapter 150E of the General Laws and as
provided in section 8 of chapter 32A and for the purposes of section 14 of
chapter 32A, the commonwealth’s share of the group insurance premium for state
employees who have retired before July 1, 1994 shall be 90 per cent and the
commonwealth’s share of the group insurance premium for state employees who have
retired on or after July 1, 1994 shall be 85 per cent; provided further, that
the commonwealth’s share of the premiums for active state employees and their
dependents shall be 85 per cent; provided further, that the commonwealth’s share
of the premiums for active state employees hired after June 30, 2003 and their
dependents shall be 80 per cent; and provided further, that the commission shall
notify the house and senate committees on ways and means by April 1 of each year
of the cost of the commonwealth’s projected share of group insurance premiums
for the next fiscal year
$976,537,643
1108-5350 For
elderly governmental retired employee premium payments.................................................
$895,032
1108-5400 For
the costs of the retired municipal teachers’ premiums and the audit of such
premiums $79,853,475
1108-5500 For
the costs, notwithstanding chapter 32A of the General Laws to the contrary, of
dental and vision benefits for those active employees of the commonwealth, not
including employees of authorities and any other political subdivision, who are
not otherwise provided those benefits pursuant to a separate appropriation or
the terms of a contract or collective bargaining agreement; provided, that the
employees shall pay 15 per cent of the monthly premium established by the
commission for the benefits.......................................................................
$6,727,448
Division
of Administrative Law Appeals.
1110-1000 For
the operation of the division of administrative law appeals established by
section 4H of chapter 7 of the General Laws; provided, that said office shall
maintain, to the fullest extent practicable, a complete physical and
technological separation from any agency, department, board, commission or
program whose decisions, determinations or actions may be appealed to it; and
provided further, that every decision issued by a commissioner or other head of
agency, or designee, following the issuance of a recommended decision by an
administrative law judge of the division, shall be an agency decision subject to
judicial review pursuant to chapter 30A of the General Laws.................................................................................................................................................
$1,181,676
George
Fingold Library.
1120-4005 For
the administration of the library; provided, that the library shall maintain
regular hours of operation from
1120-4006 The
George Fingold Library may expend revenues collected up to a maximum of $20,000
from the fees charged for copying services; provided the Library shall submit a
report that details revenue collected and expenditures made to the house and
senate committees on ways and means on or before
1150-5100 For
the office of the commission, including the processing and resolution of cases
pending before the commission that were filed on or before
1150-5104 The
Massachusetts commission against discrimination may expend not more than
$1,901,000 from revenues from
federal reimbursements received for the purposes of the United States Department
of Housing and Urban Development fair housing type 1 program and the equal
opportunity resolution contract program during fiscal year 2007 and federal reimbursements received
for these and other programs in prior years; provided, that notwithstanding any
general or special law to the contrary, the commission may also expend revenues
generated through the collection of fees and costs so authorized; provided
further, that for the purposes of accommodating discrepancies between the
receipt of retained revenues and related expenditures, the commission may incur
expenses and the comptroller may certify for payment amounts not to exceed the
lower of this authorization or the most recent revenue estimate as reported in
the state accounting system...............................................................
$1,901,000
1150-5116 The
Department
of Revenue
1201-0100 For
the operation of the department of revenue, including tax collection
administration, audits of certain foreign corporations, and the division of
local services; provided, that the department may allocate an amount not to
exceed $250,000 to the office of the attorney general for the purpose of the tax
prosecution unit; provided further, that the department may charge the expenses
for computer services, including the cost of personnel and other support costs
provided to the child support enforcement unit, from this item to item
1201-0160, consistent with the costs attributable to said unit; provided
further, that the department shall maintain regional offices in the cities of,
Springfield, Pittsfield, Fall River, and Worcester and in the Hyannis section of
the town of Barnstable; provided further, that the department shall provide to
the general court access to the municipal data bank; provided further, that
notwithstanding section 1 of chapter 31 of the General Laws, seasonal positions
funded by this account are positions requiring the services of an incumbent, on
either a full-time or less than full-time basis beginning no earlier than
December 1 and ending no later than November 30; provided further, that seasonal
positions funded by this account may not be filled by an incumbent for more than
10 months within a 12 month period; and provided further, that in order to
increase participation in the earned income credit program, the department shall
(a) not later than January 1, 2007, provide to every employer without charge a
notice in conformity with clause (iii) of subsection (d) of section 62A of
chapter 151A of the General Laws concerning the availability of the federal and
state earned income credits including the option to receive the credit in
paychecks throughout the year and require every employer to post the notice in
conformity with section 16 of chapter 151 of the General Laws, (b) work with the
chambers of commerce, municipalities, community-based organizations, taxpayer
advocates and labor organizations
to ensure the widest possible dissemination of information concerning the
availability of the credits and (c) not later than March 1, 2007, file a report
with the joint committee on revenue and the house and senate committees on ways
and means concerning its efforts under this proviso to increase earned income
credit participation
$119,846,062
General Fund ....................................................................................
95.0%
Highway Fund .................................................................................... 5.0%
1201-0130 The department of revenue is hereby
authorized to expend for the operation of the department an amount not to exceed
$9,640,000 from revenues collected by the additional auditors for an enhanced
audit program; provided, that said auditors shall discover and identify persons
who are delinquent either in the filing of a tax return or the payment of a tax
due and payable to the commonwealth, obtain said delinquent returns, and collect
such delinquent taxes for a prior fiscal year; and provided further, that
notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, for the purpose of
accommodating timing discrepancies between the receipt of retained revenues and
related expenditures, the department may incur expenses and the comptroller may
certify for payment amounts not to exceed the lower of this authorization or the
most recent revenue estimate therefor as reported in the state accounting
system..........................................................................................................................................................
$9,640,000
1201-0160 For
the child support enforcement unit; provided, that the department may allocate
funds appropriated herein to the department of state police, the district
courts, the probate and family courts, the district attorneys and other state
agencies for the performance of certain child support enforcement activities,
and that those agencies may expend the funds for the purposes of this item;
provided further, that all the allocations shall be reported quarterly to the
house and senate committees on ways and means upon the allocation of the funds;
provided further, that the federal receipts associated with the child support
computer network shall be drawn down at the highest possible rate of
reimbursement and deposited into a revolving account to be expended for the
network; provided further, that federal receipts associated with child support
enforcement grants shall be deposited into a revolving account to be drawn down
at the highest possible rate of reimbursement and to be expended for the grant
authority; provided further, that the department shall file quarterly reports
with the house and senate committees on ways and means, detailing the balance,
year-to-date and projected receipts and year-to-date and projected expenditures,
by subsidiary, of the child support trust fund established pursuant to section 9
of chapter 119A of the General Laws; and provided further, that notwithstanding
any general or special law to the contrary, for the purpose of accommodating
timing discrepancies between the receipt of revenues and related expenditures,
the department may incur expenses and the comptroller may certify for payment
the amounts not to exceed the lower of the authorization or the most recent
revenue estimate therefor as reported in the state accounting system for federal
incentives and said network in accounts 1201-0161 and 1201-0410....................................................................................................................................
$50,248,742
1201-0164 For
the child support enforcement division; provided, that said division may expend
revenues in an amount not to exceed $6,547,280 from the federal reimbursements
awarded for personnel and lower subsidiary related expenditures..........................................................................................................................................................
$6,547,280
1231-1000 For
the Commonwealth Sewer Rate Relief Fund established in section 2Z of chapter 29
of the General Laws; provided, that the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority
shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways means and the
secretary of administration and finance no later than October 1, 2006 that
shall include, but not be limited to the following; (a) an analysis of the
options for reducing operating costs of the authority; (b) the use of contracts
with private entities for the operation and maintenance of facilities owned or
operated by the authority; and (c) the cost savings and any legislation
necessary to effectuate the proposed recommendations of the report........................................................................................................................................................
$15,000,000
1231-1020 For a
program of loans, loan purchases or loan guarantees or interest subsidies to
assist homeowners, homeowner associations or condominium associations in
complying with revised state environmental code for subsurface disposal of
sanitary waste, Title V, so called; provided, that the program shall be in
addition to the loan program established pursuant to item 2200-9959 in section 2
of chapter 85 of the acts of 1994; provided further, that the department may
contract with third parties, including, but not limited to, commonwealth-based
financial institutions to manage the program; provided further, that the
department and the third parties shall take all steps necessary to minimize the
program’s administrative costs; provided further, that the loans, loan purchases
or loan guarantees shall be available on the basis of a sliding scale that
relates a homeowner’s income and assets to the cost of Title V compliance;
provided further, that interest subsidies shall be means-tested and may be for
zero-interest loans pursuant to income standards developed by the department;
and provided further, that the department of revenue shall consult with the
department of environmental protection in developing rules, regulations and
guidelines for said program, prior appropriation continued.
1232-0100 For
underground storage tank reimbursements to parties that have remediated spills
of petroleum products pursuant to chapter 21J of the General Laws...............................................................................................
$18,200,000
1232-0200 For
the Underground Storage Tank Petroleum Cleanup Fund Administrative Review Board
established by section 8 of chapter 21J of the General Laws and for the
administration of the underground storage tank program associated with the
implementation of said chapter 21J; provided, that notwithstanding section 4 of
said chapter 21J or any other general or special law to the contrary,
appropriations made in this item shall be sufficient to cover the administrative
expenses of the underground storage tank program; provided further, that the
board shall submit to the house and senate committees on ways and means a report
on the status of the underground storage program, including, but not limited to,
the number of municipal grants made for the removal and replacement of
underground storage tanks and the reimbursements for remediated petroleum
spills; provided further, that the report shall detail how many tanks are out of
compliance with said chapter 21J; and provided further, that the report shall be
submitted not later than
1232-0300 For
underground storage tank municipal grants to remove and replace the tanks
pursuant to section 2 of chapter 21J of the General Laws and section 37A of
chapter 148 of the General Laws.................................
$489,901
1233-2000 For
reimbursing cities and towns for taxes abated pursuant to clauses Seventeenth,
Twenty-second, Twenty-second A, Twenty-second B, Twenty-second C, Twenty-second
E and Thirty-seventh of section 5 of chapter 59 of the General Laws.................................................................................................................................................
$8,400,000
1233-2010 For
reimbursing cities and towns for tax abatements granted to certain homeowners
over the age of 65 pursuant to clause Fifty-second of section 5 of chapter 59 of
the General Laws............................................
$9,655
1233-2310 For
reimbursing cities and towns for taxes abated pursuant to the clauses
Forty-first, Forty-first B and Forty-first C of section 5 of chapter 59 of the
General Laws; provided, that the commonwealth shall reimburse each city or town
that accepts said clause Forty-first B or clause Forty-first C for additional
costs incurred in determining eligibility of applicants under those clauses in
an amount not to exceed $2 per exemption granted.. $9,890,345
Appellate
Tax Board.
1310-1000 For
the operation of the appellate tax board; provided, that the board shall
schedule hearings in Barnstable, Gardner, Lawrence, Milford, Northampton,
Pittsfield, Springfield, Worcester and southeastern Massachusetts; and provided
further, that the board shall report to the house and senate committees on ways
and means no later than
1310-1001 The
appellate tax board may expend revenues up to a maximum of $300,000 from fees
collected; provided, that in order to accommodate discrepancies between the
receipt of retained revenues and related expenditures, the board may incur
expenses and the comptroller may certify for payment amounts not to exceed the
lower of this authorization or the most recent revenue estimate as reported in
the state accounting system
$300,000
Department
of Veterans Services
0610-0093 For the purposes of allowing the department of veterans’ services to make bonus payments to Persian Gulf war veterans; provided, that the payments shall be consistent with the purposes of the trust instrument for “A Hero’s Welcome Trust Fund” .................................................................................................................................................... $23,000
A Hero’s Welcome Trust Fund......................................................
100.00%
1410-0010 For
the operation of the department of veterans’ services; provided, that the
department may fund a housing specialist from this item; provided further, that
not less than $10,000 shall be expended for the purpose of maintaining the
Massachusetts Vietnam Veterans Memorial located in the Green Hill park in
Worcester; provided further, that not less than $10,000 shall be expended for
the Korean War Veterans Committee of Massachusetts for the purpose of
maintaining the Korean War Memorial located in the shipyard park of the
Charlestown Navy Yard; and provided further, that the department may expend
funds for the Glory 54th Brigade.......................
$2,012,187
1410-0012 For
services to veterans, including the maintenance and operation of outreach
centers; provided, that the centers shall provide counseling to incarcerated
veterans and to Vietnam era veterans and their families who may have been
exposed to agent orange; provided further, that these centers shall also provide
services to veterans who were discharged after September 11, 2001, and their
families; provided further, that not less than $292,480 shall be obligated for a
contract with the Montachusett Veterans Outreach Center in the city of Gardner;
provided further, that not less than $228,771 shall be obligated for a contract
with the Veterans Benefit Clearinghouse in the Roxbury section of Boston;
provided further, that not less than $144,879 shall be obligated for a contract
with the Puerto Rican Veterans Association of Massachusetts, Inc., in the city
of Springfield; provided further, that not less than $131,500 shall be obligated
for a contract with Nam Vets Association of the Cape and Islands in the Hyannis
section of the town of Barnstable; provided further, that not less than $106,102
shall be obligated for a contract with the North Shore Veterans Counseling
Center in the city of Beverly; provided further, that not less than $100,000
shall be expended for veteran’s services to be administered by the Falmouth
veterans agent through the Falmouth Free Clinic and Community Center; provided
further, that not less than $100,000 shall be obligated for a contract with the
Veterans Northeast Outreach Center in the city of Haverhill; provided further,
that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for the Disabled American Veterans
organization; provided further, that not less than $100,000 be earmarked and
obligated to Boston metropolitan area for a contract with the Puerto Rican
Veterans Association of Massachusetts, Inc; provided further, that not less than
$84,879 shall be obligated for a contract with the Veterans Association of
Bristol county in the city of Fall River; provided further, that not less than
$84,453 shall be obligated for a contract with the Metrowest/Metrosouth Outreach
Center in the town of Framingham; provided further, that not less than $50,000
shall be provided to the Middleboro Veterans’ Outreach Center; and provided
further, that not less than $30,000 shall be expended for the oral history
project at the Morse Institute Library in Natick ..........................................................................................................................................................
$1,535,064
1410-0015 For
the women veterans’ outreach program.......................................................................................
$42,282
1410-0018 The
department may expend not more than $300,000 for the maintenance and operation
of Agawam and Winchendon veterans’ cemeteries from revenue collected from fees,
grants, gifts or other contributions to the cemeteries; prior appropriations
continued ...............................................................................................................
$300,000
1410-0100 For
the revenue maximization project of the executive office of elder affairs to
identify individuals eligible for veterans’ pensions who are currently receiving
home health care services.............................
$98,000
1410-0250 For
homelessness services; provided, that not less than $652,395 shall be obligated
for a contract with the Southeastern Massachusetts Veterans Housing Program,
Inc., in the city of New Bedford; provided further, that not less than $475,105
shall be obligated for a contract with the central Massachusetts Shelter for
Homeless Veterans in the city of Worcester; provided further, that not less than
$220,000 shall be obligated for a contract with the United Veterans of America
shelter in the town of Leeds; provided further, that not less than $200,000
shall be obligated for contracts with the Veterans Hospice Homestead in the city
of Leominster and the Veterans Hospice in the town of Fitchburg; provided
further, that not less than $199,405 shall be obligated for a contract with
Unity House in the city of Gardner; provided further, that not less than
$190,000 shall be obligated for a contract with Habitat P.L.U.S. in the city of
Lynn; provided further, that $100,350 shall be obligated for a contract with the
Veterans Benefit Clearinghouse in the Dorchester section of the city of Boston;
provided further, that not less than $80,000 shall be provided for a contract
with the Mansion in the city of Haverhill; provided further, that not less than
$75,000 shall be obligated for a contract with the Transition House in the city
of Springfield; provided further, that not less than $73,350 shall be obligated
for a contract with the Veterans Benefit Clearinghouse in the Roxbury section of
the city of Boston; provided further, that not less than $51,975 shall be
expended for a contract with the Springfield Bilingual Veterans Outreach Center
for the operation and maintenance of a transitional housing unit at the YMCA of
Springfield; provided further, that not less than $37,350 shall be obligated for
a contract with the Homestead in the town of Hyannis; and provided further, that
not less than $27,500 shall be obligated for a contract with the Turner House
located in the town of Williamstown............................................................................
$2,382,430
1410-0251 For
the maintenance and operation of homeless shelters and transitional housing for
veterans at the New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans located in the city of
Boston; provided, that not less than $900,000 shall be expended for capital
improvements.............................................................................................................
$3,176,703
1410-0300 For
the payment of annuities to certain disabled veterans and the parents and
un-remarried spouses of certain deceased veterans; provided, that the payments
shall be made pursuant to section 6B of chapter 115 of the General Laws;
provided further, that the department shall take reasonable steps to terminate
payments upon the death of a recipient; provided further, that the department
shall prorate annuity payments to ensure that the total payments in fiscal year
2007 shall not exceed the amount appropriated herein; and provided further, that
the secretary of veterans’ services shall file with the house and senate
committees on ways and means a report detailing the number of applications
received for annuities offered under this program at the end of each fiscal
quarter.......
$16,859,688
1410-0400 For
reimbursing cities and towns for money paid for veterans’ benefits and for
payments to certain veterans under section 6 of chapter 115 of the General Laws;
provided, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, 100
per cent of the amounts of veterans’ benefits paid by cities and towns to
residents of a soldiers’ home shall be paid by the commonwealth to the several
cities and towns; provided further, that pursuant to section 9 of said chapter
115, the department shall reimburse cities and towns for the cost of United
States flags placed on the graves of veterans on Memorial Day; provided further,
that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the secretary
of veteran services may continue a training program for veterans’ agents and
directors of veterans’ services in cities and towns; provided further, that the
purpose of the training program shall be to maximize federal assistance
available for veterans and to assure that the agents and directors receive
uniform instruction on providing veterans and dependents with advice relative to
procurement of state, federal and local benefits to which they are entitled,
including employment, education, health care, retirement and other veterans’
benefits; provided further, that the subject matter of the training program
shall include benefits available under said chapter 115 and alternative
resources, including those which are partially or wholly subsidized by the
federal government, such as Medicaid, Supplemental Security Income and Social
Security Disability benefits, as well as federal pension and compensation
entitlements; provided further, that the secretary shall promulgate regulations
for the training program; provided further, that upon successful participation
by the veterans’ agents or directors of veterans’ services in the training
program, the costs of the training program incurred by the several cities and
towns shall be reimbursed by the commonwealth on or before November 10 following
the fiscal year in which the costs were paid; provided further, that any person
applying for veterans’ benefits to pay for services available under chapter 118E
of the General Laws, shall also apply for medical assistance under said chapter
118E to minimize cost of the commonwealth and its municipalities; provided
further, that veterans’ agents shall complete applications authorized by the
executive office under said chapter 118E for any veteran, widow and dependent
applying for medical assistance under said chapter 115; provided further, that
the veterans’ agent shall file the application for the veteran or dependent for
assistance under said chapter 118E; provided further, that the executive office
shall act on all said chapter 118E applications and advise the applicant and the
veterans’ agent of the applicant’s eligibility for said chapter 118E healthcare;
provided further, that the veterans’ agent shall advise the applicant of the
right to assistance for medical benefits under said chapter 115 pending approval
of the application for assistance under said chapter 118E by the executive
office provided further, that the secretary may supplement healthcare pursuant
to said chapter 118E with healthcare coverage under said chapter 115 if he
determines that supplemental coverage is necessary to afford the veteran or
dependent sufficient relief and support; provided further, that payments to or
on behalf of a veteran or dependent pursuant to said chapter 115 shall not be
considered income for the purposes of determining eligibility under said chapter
118E; and provided further, that benefits awarded pursuant to section 6B of said
chapter 115 shall be considered countable income...................................................................................................
$14,412,585
1410-0630 For
the administration of the veterans’ cemeteries in the towns of
Reserves.
1599-0035 For
certain debt service contract assistance to the Massachusetts Convention Center
Authority in accordance with section 39 of chapter 190 of the acts of 1982;
provided, that the assistance shall be expended notwithstanding section 35J of
chapter 10 of the General Laws.........................................................................
$2,531,761
1599-0042 For a
reserve to improve the quality of the commonwealth’s early education and care
system; provided, that payments from this reserve shall be distributed by the
department of early education and care to increase reimbursement rates for
subsidized early education and care; provided further, that the increases shall
be directed to expenditures for salaries, benefits, stipends for professional
development of early education and
care workers or programmatic quality improvements; and provided further,
that such increases may be allocated to adjust rates of reimbursement paid to
each provider by the same percentage across the commonwealth ....................................
$12,500,000
1599-0049 For
contract assistance payments to the Foxborough Industrial Development Finance
Authority in accordance with section 8 of chapter 16 of the acts of 1999...............................................................................
$5,337,628
1599-0050 For
Route 3 North contract assistance payments......................................................................
$26,755,000
1599-0093 For
contract assistance to the water pollution abatement trust for debt service
obligations of the trust, in accordance with sections 6 and 6A of chapter 29C of
the General Laws...............................................
$54,907,283
1599-1970 For a
reserve for the Massachusetts turnpike authority for costs incurred in fiscal
year 2005 for the operation and maintenance of the central artery/tunnel project
pursuant to chapter 235 of the acts of 1998 $25,000,000
1599-1971 For
the cost of hired and leased equipment, vehicle repair, and sand, salt, and
other control chemicals used for snow and ice control; provided, that the
secretary for administration and finance shall submit to the house and senate
committees on post audit and oversight, the house and senate committees on
transportation and the house and senate committees on ways and means a report on
snow and ice control efforts no later than
1599-3234 For
the commonwealth’s south
1599-3384 For a
reserve for the payment of certain court judgments, settlements and legal fees,
in accordance with regulations promulgated by the comptroller, which were
ordered to be paid in the current fiscal year or a prior fiscal year; provided,
that the comptroller shall report quarterly to the house and senate committees
on ways and means on the amounts expended from this item;.............................................................................................
$4,837,211
1599-3837 For
the payment to the water pollution abatement trust to fund financial assistance
to municipalities and other eligible borrowers to meet debt service obligations
incurred by the municipalities and other eligible borrowers after
1599-3838 For a
reserve for payment to the water pollution abatement trust to finance the costs
of water treatment projects or portions thereof which have been approved by the
department of environmental protection, or otherwise authorized by law, after
the promulgation date of the department’s regulations related to the
implementation of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act ......................................................................................................................
$9,308,806
1599-3856 For
rent and associated costs at the
1599-3857 For
capital lease payments from the
1599-4110 For a
reserve to meet the fiscal year 2007 costs of salary increases and other
employee economic benefits authorized for employees of the supreme judicial
court, the appeals court and the trial court that are covered by the collective
bargaining agreements between the trial court of the commonwealth and the
National Association of Government Employees (NAGE), Local 5000 covering all
probation officers, associate probation officers, court officers and associate
court officers, including all court officers in the Middlesex superior and
Suffolk uperior court officers’ bargaining units; provided, that the secretary may make
allocations from this item to meet the costs of salary adjustments and other
economic benefits to personnel of the trial court employed in confidential
positions who would otherwise be covered by the agreement; provided further, that the secretary of
administration and finance may transfer from the sum appropriated herein to
other items of appropriation and allocations thereof for fiscal year 2007 such
adjustments and benefits where the amounts otherwise available are insufficient
for the purpose, in accordance with a transfer plan which shall be filed in
advance with the house and senate committees on ways and means........................................................................................................................................................
$12,122,125
1599-6901 For a
reserve to adjust the wages, compensation or salary and associated
employee-related costs to personnel earning less than $40,000 in annual
compensation who are employed by private human service providers that deliver
human and social services under contracts with departments within the executive
office of health and human services and the executive office of elder affairs;
provided, that home care workers shall be eligible for funding from this
appropriation; provided further, that the secretary of administration and
finance may allocate the funds appropriated in this item to the departments in
order to implement this initiative; provided further, that the executive office
of health and human services shall condition the expenditure of the reserve upon
assurances that the funds shall be used solely for the purposes of adjustments
to wages, compensation or salary; provided further, that not later than February
15, 2007 the executive office shall submit to the house and senate committees on
ways and means a report delineating the number of employees, by job title and
average salary, receiving the adjustment in fiscal year 2007 and the average
percentage adjustment funded by this reserve; provided further, that the report
shall also include, for each contract scheduled to receive any allocation from
this item in each such department, the total payroll expenditures in each
contract for the categories of personnel scheduled to receive the adjustments;
provided further, that no funds from this item shall be allocated to special
education programs under chapter 71B of the General Laws, contracts for early
education and care services or programs for which payment rates are negotiated
and paid as class rates as established by the division of health care finance
and policy; provided further, that no funds shall be allocated from this item to
contracts funded exclusively by federal grants as delineated in section 2D;
provided further, that the total fiscal year 2007 cost of salary adjustments and
any other associated employee costs authorized thereunder shall not exceed
$28,000,000; provided further, that the executive office shall submit an
allocation schedule to the house and senate committees on ways and means not
less than 30 days after disbursement of funds; provided further, that the
annualized cost of the adjustments in fiscal year 2008 shall not exceed the
amount appropriated herein; provided further, that the raises provided through
this item shall be in addition to any already agreed to or collectively
bargained for pay increases; provided further, that a special commission shall
meet to make recommendations on methodologies to establish standards of
reasonable and adequate payment rates for social service programs providing
services purchased by any governmental or political subdivision of the executive
office of health and human services; provided further, that the commission shall
consist of: 1 member appointed by the speaker of the house, 1 member appointed
by the senate president, the chairs of the joint committee on children and
families or their designees, the chairs of the joint committee on public health
or their designees, the chairs of the joint committee on mental health and
substance abuse or their designees, 1 designee of the Association of
Developmental Disability Providers, 1 designee of the Massachusetts Council of
Human Service Providers, and 1 designee of the Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Corporations of Massachusetts; provided further, that the commission shall
consult with all agencies under the executive office of health and human
services and industry representatives and consultants; and provided further,
that the commission shall file a report detailing its findings, including any
legislative recommendations, with the secretary of administration and finance,
the clerks of the house and senate and the chairpersons of the house and senate
committees on ways and means no later than May 15, 2007........................................................................................................................................................
$28,000,000
1599-7092 For a
reserve for the county correctional programs; provided, that notwithstanding any
general or special laws to the contrary, the sheriffs, in conjunction with the
county government finance review board, shall maintain and continue to
collaborate with the comptroller’s office to collect and report all revenue
collection and all spending on the Massachusetts management accounting and
reporting system; provided further, that the comptroller shall not transfer the
funds from this item to item 8910-0000 unless the plan is in place; provided
further, that the county government finance review board shall, by January 1,
2007, have developed a plan for the spending of all funds for fiscal year 2007,
and developed a sound fiscal spending plan for fiscal year 2008; provided
further, that the board shall build the spending plans with the direct input of
the seven sheriffs still functioning under the county government system;
provided further, that by January 15, 2007 the board shall report all spending
plans to the house and senate committees on ways and means; provided further,
that the information shall satisfy all fiscal requirements for a maintenance
level of funding, including, but not limited to, collective bargaining
increases, legal fees, debt services, one time costs, energy costs, equipment
leases, medical costs, and workers’ compensation issues; provided further, that
no other spending information or requests shall be submitted to the house and
senate committees on ways and means by the individual sheriffs until February
15, 2007; provided further, that the board shall also provide a projection of
all county funds to be collected for fiscal year 2007 and 2008; provided
further, that the board shall release all funds from fiscal year 2007 quarterly;
provided further, that any sheriff that spends more than the quarterly approved
budget shall have the money allocated for the following quarter reduced by the
excess amount overspent in the previous quarter; and provided further, that it
is the intent of the general court that funds shall not be spent from this item
nor any funds shall be transferred from this item to another item until all of
the aforementioned restrictions and conditions have been satisfied .........................................................................................
$39,319,632
1599-7104 For a
reserve for the facilities costs associated with the college of visual and
performing arts at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth; provided, that
funds may be expended for Bristol community college..........................................................................................................................................................
$2,700,000
Human
Resources Division.
1750-0100 For
the operation of the human resources division and the costs of administration,
training, and customer support related to the commonwealth’s human resources and
compensation management system; provided, that the information technology
division shall continue a chargeback system for its bureau of computer services
including the operation of the commonwealth’s human resources and compensation
management system, which complies with the requirements of section 2B; provided
further, that the division shall be responsible for the administration of
examinations for state and municipal civil service titles, establishment of
eligible lists, certification of eligible candidates to state and municipal
appointing authorities, technical assistance in selection and appointment to
state and municipal appointing authorities; provided further, that
notwithstanding clause (n) of section 5 of chapter 31 of the General Laws or any
other general or special law to the contrary, the secretary of administration
and finance shall charge a fee of not less than $50 to be collected from each
applicant for a civil service examination; provided further, that the division
shall administer a program of state employee unemployment management, including,
but not limited to, agency training and assistance; provided further, that the
division shall administer the statewide classification system, including, but
not limited to, maintaining a classification pay plan for civil service titles
within the commonwealth in accordance with generally accepted compensation
standards and reviewing appeals for reclassification; provided further, that the
secretary for administration and finance shall file with the house and senate
committees on ways and means the amounts of any and all economic benefits
necessary to fund any incremental cost items contained in any collective
bargaining agreements with the various classified public employees’ unions;
provided further, that the nature and scope of economic proposals contained in
those agreements shall include all fixed percentage or dollar based salary
adjustments, non-base payments or other forms of compensation and all
supplemental fringe benefits resulting in any incremental costs; and provided
further, that any employee of the commonwealth who chooses to participate in a
bone marrow donor program or an organ donor transplant program shall be granted
a leave of absence with pay to undergo the medical procedure and for associated
physical recovery time, but this leave shall not exceed 5 days.............................................................................
$4,084,842
1750-0102 The
human resources division may expend not more than $1,327,500 from revenues
collected from fees charged to applicants for civil service and non-civil
service examinations and fees charged for the costs of goods and services
rendered in administering training programs; provided, that the division shall
collect from participating non-state agencies, political subdivisions, and the
general public fees sufficient to cover all costs of the programs, including,
but not limited to, a fee to be collected from each applicant for a civil
service examination or non-civil examination, notwithstanding paragraph (n) of
section 5 of chapter 31 of the General Laws or any other general or special law
to the contrary; and provided further, that notwithstanding any general or
special law to the contrary, for the purpose of accommodating timing
discrepancies between the receipt of retained revenues and related expenditures,
the division may incur expenses and the comptroller may certify for payment
amounts not to exceed the lower of this authorization or the most recent revenue
estimate therefore as reported in the state accounting system..........................................................................................................................................................
$1,327,500
1750-0111 For
the planning and implementation of a civil service continuous testing program
and the operation of the bypass appeals process program; provided, that the
division shall file quarterly reports with the house and senate committees on
ways and means detailing the number of tests administered and the amount of
revenue collected through the program...............................................................................................................................................
$104,483
1750-0119 For
payment of workers’ compensation benefits to certain former employees of
Middlesex and Worcester counties; provided, that the division shall routinely
recertify the former employees pursuant to current workers’ compensation
procedures..........................................................................................................................................
$233,350
1750-0201 The
human resources division may expend not more than $250,000 from revenues
collected for implementation of the medical and physical fitness standards
program established pursuant to sections 61A and 61B of chapter 31 of the
General Laws and chapter 32 of the General Laws; provided, that the personnel
administrator shall charge a fee of not less than $50 to be collected from each
applicant who participates in the physical ability test; $250,000
1750-0300 For
the commonwealth’s contributions in fiscal year 2007 to health and welfare funds
established pursuant to certain collective bargaining agreements; provided, that
the contributions shall be calculated as provided in the applicable collective
bargaining agreement and shall be paid to the health and welfare trust funds on
a monthly basis or on such other basis as the applicable collective bargaining
agreement provides.........................
$22,422,393
Operational
Services Division.
1775-0100 For
the operation of the operational services division; provided, that the division
shall expend funds for the purpose of achieving savings pursuant to this act;
provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the
contrary, the division of purchased services of 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 the prices in fiscal year 2007 by increasing the final fiscal
year 2006 price by the rate of inflation as determined by the division; provided
further, that the division shall also adjust prices for Extraordinary Relief, as
defined in 808 CMR 1.06(4); provided further, that the department shall accept
applications for Program Reconstruction in fiscal year 2007; provided further,
that programs for which prices in fiscal year 2006 were lower than the full
amount permitted by the division of purchased services shall be permitted to
charge in fiscal year 2007 the full price calculated for fiscal year 2006
adjusted by the rate of inflation as determined by the division; provided
further, that upon the request of a program, the operational services division
shall authorize a minimum price for the program to charge out-of-state
purchasers; and provided further, that the division shall determine the minimum
price for out-of-state purchasers by identifying the most recent price
calculated for the program and applying the estimated rates of inflation which
are established by December 1 of each year pursuant to section 274 of chapter
110 of the acts of 1993 in a compounded manner for each fiscal year following
the most recent calculated price $2,061,364
1775-0124 The
operational services division may expend an amount not to exceed $500,000 from
revenue collected in the recovery of cost-reimbursement and non-reimbursable
over billing and recoupment for health and human service agencies and as a
result of administrative reviews, as determined during the division’s audits and
reviews of providers pursuant to section 274 of chapter 110 of the acts of 1993;
provided, that the division may only retain revenues collected in excess of
$207,350.....................................................................................................
$500,000
1775-0600 The
operational services division may expend not more than $100,000 in revenues from
the sale of state surplus personal property, including the payment, expenses and
liabilities for the acquisition, warehousing, allocation and distribution of
surplus property; provided, that for the purpose of accommodating discrepancies
between the receipt of retained revenues and related expenditures, the
operational services division may incur expenses and the comptroller may certify
for payment amounts not to exceed the lower of this authorization or the most
recent revenue estimate as reported in the state accounting system, including
the costs of personnel.......
$100,000
1775-0700 The
operational services division may expend not more than $53,000 in revenues
collected in addition to the amount authorized in item 1775-1000 of section 2B,
for printing, photocopying, related graphic art or design work and other
reprographic goods and services provided to the general public, including all
necessary incidental expenses................................................................................................................................................................
$53,000
1775-0900 The
operational services division may expend not more than $55,000 in revenues
collected pursuant to chapter 449 of the acts of 1984 and section 4L of chapter
7 of the General Laws, including the costs of personnel, from the sale of
federal surplus property, including the payment, expenses and liabilities for
the acquisition, warehousing, allocation and distribution of federal surplus
property; provided, that for the purpose of accommodating discrepancies between
the receipt of retained revenues and related expenditures, the operational
services division may incur expenses and the comptroller may certify for payment
amounts not to exceed the lower of this authorization or the most recent revenue
estimate as reported in the state accounting system .....................................................
$55,000
1775-1100 The
operational services division may expend not more than $500,000 in revenues
collected from the disposal of surplus motor vehicles, including, but not
limited to, state police vehicles from vehicle accident and damage claims and
from manufacturer warranties, rebates and settlements, for the purchase of motor
vehicles; and provided further, that for the purpose of accommodating
discrepancies between the receipt of retained revenues and related expenditures,
the operational services division may incur expenses and the comptroller may
certify for payment amounts not to exceed the lower of this authorization or the
most recent revenue estimate as reported in the state accounting system,
including the costs of personnel................................................................
$500,000
Information
Technology Division.
1790-0100 For
the operation of the information technology division; provided, that the
division shall continue a chargeback system for its bureau of computer services
including the operation of the commonwealth’s human resources and compensation
management system, which complies with the requirements of section 2B; provided
further, that the division shall develop a formula to determine the cost that
will be charged to each agency for its use of the human resources and
compensation management system; provided further, that the division may
coordinate with any state agency or state authority which administers a grant
program to develop a statewide grant information page on the commonwealth’s
official worldwide web site, that shall include all necessary application forms
and a grant program reference in a format that is retrievable and printable;
provided further, that the division shall continue conducting audits and surveys
to identify and realize savings in the acquisition and maintenance of
communications lines; provided further, that the commissioner shall file an
annual status report with the house and senate committees on ways and means by
1790-0300 The
information technology division may expend not more than $467,837 from revenues collected from the
provision of computer resources and services to the general public for the costs
of the bureau of computer services, including the purchase, lease or rental of
telecommunications lines, services and equipment............ $467,837
Executive Office of Environmental Affairs
Office
of the Secretary.
2000-0100 For
the office of the secretary, including the water resources commission, the
hazardous waste facility site safety council, the coastal zone management
program, environmental impact reviews conducted pursuant to chapter 30 of the
General Laws, the mosquito-borne disease vector control chapter program, and a
central data processing center for the secretariat; provided, that the secretary
of environmental affairs may enter into interagency agreements with any line
agency within the secretariat, whereby the line agency may render data
processing services to said secretary; provided further, that the comptroller
may allocate the costs for such data processing services to the several state
and other funds to which items of appropriation of such agencies are charged;
provided further, that the secretary shall file a plan with the house and senate
committees on ways and means 20 days before entering into any interdepartmental
service agreements with any of the departments or divisions under the
secretariat or any department, division or office under the executive office of
administration and finance; provided further, that the secretary shall provide a
90 day notice before the implementation of any memorandum of understanding,
interagency service agreements, or other contacts, or agreements that would
enable the consolidation of services to take place; provided further, that not
less than $50,000 shall be transferred to the Boston Harbor Islands Alliance for
costs associated with the new visitor contact station known as the Harbor Park
Pavilion on Parcel 14 of the Rose Kennedy Greenway; provided further, that not
less than $250,000 shall be expended for volunteer water monitoring grants;
provided further, that $10,000 shall be expended for signage for the coastal
trails system in the towns of Amesbury, Salisbury, Newburyport and Newbury;
provided further, that $20,000 shall be expended for a study to determine how to
connect the carriagetown center to the Salisbury point for the coastal trails
system; provided further, that not
less than $100,000 shall be expended for a one to one matching grant to the Cape
Cod Bay sanctuary program; provided further, that $150,000 shall be expended for
a coastal water quality and natural resource monitoring program in Buzzards Bay
administered by the Coalition for Buzzards Bay; provided further, that $100,000
shall be expended for the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs to
develop and implement a scope of work and a written action plan to protect
and manage the Plymouth-Carver Sole Source Aquifer in consultation with the
Towns of Bourne, Carver, Kingston, Middleborough, Plymouth, Plympton, and
Wareham, through a Plymouth-Carver Aquifer Advisory Committee (PCAAC) to be
comprised of a Coordinator from the Executive Office of Environmental
Affairs and one member, and one alternate member, from
each Town to be appointed by the chief elected body in each Town; provided
further, that the Coordinator shall complete a final
written action plan, and procure services needed to complete the
plan, with the input of the PCAAC; and provided further, that the
Coordinator and the PCAAC shall meet at least until the final written
action plan is completed ...............................................................................................
$6,883,150
2000-9900 For
the office of geographic and environmental information established in section 4B
of chapter 21A of the General Laws....................................................................................................................................................
$289,422
2001-1001 The
secretary of environmental affairs may expend not more than $125,000 from fees
charged to entities other than political subdivisions of the commonwealth for
the distribution of digital cartographic and other data for the review of
environmental notification forms pursuant to sections 61 to 62H, inclusive, of
chapter 30 of the General Laws ..............................................................................................................................................................
$125,000
2010-0100 For
recycling and related purposes consistent with the recycling plan of the solid
waste master plan which includes municipal equipment, a municipal recycling
incentive program, recycled product procurement, guaranteed annual tonnage
assistance, recycling transfer stations, source reduction and technical
assistance, consumer education and participation campaign, municipal household
hazardous waste program, the recycling loan program, research and development,
recycling market development and recycling business development, and the
operation of the Springfield materials recycling facility; provided further,
that funds may be expended for a recycling industry reimbursement program
pursuant to section 24I of chapter 43 of the acts of 1997; and provided further,
that funds may be expended on municipal recycling incentives and equipment
grants....................
$2,360,367
2010-0200 For
redemption centers; provided, that the department of environmental protection
shall expend the funds appropriated in this item for a program to preserve the
continuing ability of redemption centers to maintain operations in pursuit of
the commonwealth’s recycling goals consistent with section 323 of chapter 94 of
the General Laws; provided further, that for the purposes of this item and said
chapter 94, a redemption center shall be any business registered with the
commonwealth whose primary purpose is the redemption of reusable beverage
containers; provided further, that the program shall take into consideration the
volume of redeemables per redemption center, the length of time the center has
been in operation, the number of returnables redeemed quarterly by the centers,
the submission by the centers of documentation of their redeemed returnables to
the department and the costs of transportation, packing, storage and labor; and
provided further, that a redemption center shall be eligible for the funds
if registered with the commonwealth
as of
2020-0100 For
toxics use reduction technical assistance and technology in accordance with
chapter 21I of the General Laws..........................................................................................................................................................
$1,365,928
2030-1000 For
the operation of the office of environmental law enforcement; provided, that
officers shall provide monitoring pursuant to the National Shellfish Sanitation
Program; provided further, that the department shall maintain and operate the
boat registration and titling offices in Hyannis and Fall River; provided
further, that funds from this item shall not be expended for the purposes of
item 2030-1004; and provided further, that $150,000 shall be expended for the
cost of patrols performed by environmental law enforcement officers within
properties controlled by the division of state parks and recreation......................................................................................................
$10,554,604
2030-1004 For
environmental police private details; provided, that the office may expend
revenues of up to $500,000 collected from the fees charged for private details;
provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the
contrary, for the purpose of accommodating timing discrepancies between the
receipt of retained revenues and related expenditures, the department may incur
expenses and the comptroller may certify for payment amounts not to exceed the
lower of this authorization or the most recent revenue estimate as reported in
the state accounting system..............................................................................................................................................................
$500,000
Department
of Environmental Protection.
2200-0100 For
the operation of the department of environmental protection, including the
environmental strike force, the office of environmental results and strategic
planning, the bureau of resource protection, the Senator William X. Wall
experimental station, and a contract with the University of Massachusetts for
environmental research, notwithstanding the provisions of section 323F of
chapter 94 of the General Laws; provided, that section 3B of chapter 7 of the
General Laws shall not apply to fees established pursuant to section 18 of
chapter 21A of the General Laws; and provided further, that not less than
$150,000 shall be expended by the department for a study and testing of the
existing wells and aquifers on the grounds of the former site of the Paul A.
Dever state school to determine their condition, water output and costs
associated with bringing the wells and aquifers on line for use as a regional
water supply............................................................................................................................................
$31,930,671
2200-0102 The
department of environmental protection may expend an amount not to exceed
$1,200,000 from revenues collected from fees collected from wetland permits;
provided, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, for
the purpose of accommodating timing discrepancies between the receipt of
revenues and related expenditures, the department may incur expenses and the
comptroller may certify for payment the amounts not to exceed the lower of this
authorization or the most recent revenue estimate as reported in the state
accounting system; provided further, that the department shall submit a report
by
2210-0100 For
the implementation and administration of chapter 21I of the General Laws;
provided, that the department shall submit a report to the house and senate
committees on ways and means not later than
2220-2220 For
the administration and implementation of the federal Clean Air Act, including
the operating permit program, the emissions banking program, the auto-related
state implementation program, the low emission vehicle program, the
non-auto-related state implementation program, and the commonwealth’s
commitments under the New England Governor’s/Eastern Canadian Premier’s Action
Plans for reducing acid rain deposition and mercury emissions..........................................................................................................................................................
$1,029,838
2220-2221 For
the administration and implementation of the operating permit and compliance
program required under the federal Clean Air Act..................................................................................................................................
$2,002,949
2250-2000 For
the purposes of state implementation of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act
under section 18A of chapter 21A of the General Laws...........................................................................................................................
$1,591,227
2260-8870 For
the expenses of the hazardous waste cleanup and underground storage tank
programs, notwithstanding section 323F of chapter 94 of the General Laws and
section 4 of chapter 21J of the General Laws $15,620,275
2260-8872 For
the brownfields site audit program..........................................................................................
$1,821,681
2260-8881 For
the operations of the board of registration of hazardous waste site cleanup
professionals, notwithstanding section 19A of chapter 21A of the General
Laws......................................................................................
$356,933
Department
of Fish and Game.
2300-0100 For
the office of the commissioner; provided, that the commissioner’s office shall
assess and receive payments from the division of marine fisheries, the division
of fisheries and wildlife, the public access board, the riverways programs, and
all other programs under the control of the department of fish and game;
provided further, that the purpose of those assessments shall be to cover
appropriate administrative costs of the department, including but not limited to
payroll, personnel, legal and budgetary costs; provided further, that $50,000 in
matching funds shall be provided to the National Marine Life Center for animal
care; and provided further, that the amount and contribution from each division
or program shall be determined by the commissioner of fish and game................. $562,924
2300-0101 For a
program of riverways protection, restoration and promotion of public access to
rivers, including grants to public and nonpublic entities; provided, that the
positions funded in this item shall not be subject to chapter 31 of the General
Laws.....................................................................................................................................
$523,547
2310-0200 For
the administration of the division of fisheries and wildlife, including expenses
of the fisheries and wildlife board, the administration of game farms and
wildlife restoration projects, for wildlife research and management, the
administration of fish hatcheries, the improvement and management of lakes,
ponds and rivers, for fish and wildlife restoration projects, the commonwealth’s
share of certain cooperative fishery and wildlife programs, and for certain
programs reimbursable under the federal Aid to Fish and Wildlife Restoration
Act; provided, that funds from this item shall be made available to the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst for the purposes of wildlife and
fisheries research in an amount not to exceed the amount received in fiscal year
2006 for such research; provided further, that $200,000 shall be expended to
continue to operate fish hatcheries in the towns of Montague and Sandwich;
provided further, that the department shall expend the amount necessary to
restore anadromous fish in the Connecticut and Merrimack river systems; provided
further, that expenditures for such programs shall be contingent upon prior
approval of the proper federal authorities for reimbursement of at least 75 per
cent of the amount so expended; and provided further, that funds may be expended
to supplement the natural heritage and endangered species program..........................................................................................................................................................
$9,200,000
Inland Fisheries and Game Fund..................................................
100.0%
2310-0306 For
the hunter safety training program.............................................................................................
$447,551
Inland Fisheries and Game Fund ................................................
100.0%
2310-0316 For
the purpose of land containing wildlife habitat and for the costs of the
division of fisheries and wildlife directly related to the administration of the
wildlands stamp program pursuant to sections 2A and 2C of chapter 131 of the
General Laws; provided, that funds shall not be expended from this item in the
AA object class for the compensation of state employees assigned to any
item...................................................................................
$1,500,000
Inland Fisheries and Game Fund ................................................
100.0%
2310-0317 For
the waterfowl management program pursuant to section 11 of chapter 131 of the
General Laws $85,000
Inland Fisheries and Game Fund …………….100.0%
2320-0100 For
the administration of the public access board, including the maintenance,
operation, and improvements of public access land and water areas as authorized
by section 17A of chapter 21 of the General Laws; provided, that positions
funded in this item shall not be subject to chapter 31 of the General Law............................
$620,103
2330-0100 For
the operation of the division of marine fisheries, including expenses of the
Annisquam river marine research laboratory, marine research programs, a
commercial fisheries program, a shellfish management program, including coastal
area classification, mapping and technical assistance, and for the operation of
the Newburyport shellfish purification plant and shellfish classification
program; provided, that $300,000 shall be expended on a recreational fisheries
program to be reimbursed by federal funds; provided further, that not less than
$333,000 shall be expended for the operation of the Newburyport shellfish
purification plant and that plant shall generate not less than $115,000 from
purification fees; provided further, that not less than $90,000 shall be
expended for the joint operation of a shellfish propagation program on Cape Cod
between the division and the Barnstable county department of health and
environment; provided further, that $50,000 shall be expended for the Family
Fishing Assistance Center in the city of New Bedford; provided further, that
$50,000 shall be expended for the Family Fishing Assistance Center in the city
of Gloucester; provided further, that the sum expended for the School for Marine
Science and Technology to help mitigate the negative economic impact to the
Massachusetts ports which has resulted from the change in federal fisheries
regulations in fiscal year 2007 shall not be reduced from fiscal year 2006 except in proportion to adjustments
consistent with the department’s budget adjustment; and provided further, that
funds shall be expended for the School for Marine Science and Technology for
research to minimize the economic impact of new fisheries management regulations
and shall not be reduced from fiscal year 2006 except in proportion to
adjustments consistent with the department’s budget adjustment ............................................................
$4,777,984
2330-0120 For
the division of marine fisheries for a program of enhancement and development of
marine recreational fishing and related programs and activities, including the
cost of equipment maintenance, staff and the maintenance and updating of
data................................................................................................................................
$564,919
2330-0121 For
the division of marine fisheries to utilize reimbursable federal sportfish
restoration funds to further develop marine recreational fishing and related
programs, including the costs of activities that increase public access for
marine recreational fishing, support research on artificial reefs, and otherwise
provide for the development of marine recreational fishing; and provided, that
the division of marine fisheries may expend revenues up to $217,989 collected
from federal sportfish restoration funds and from the sale of materials which
promote marine recreational fishing.................................................................................................................................................
$217,989
Department
of Agricultural Resources.
2511-0100 For
the operation of the department of agricultural resources, including the office
of the commissioner, the expenses of the board of agriculture, the division of
dairy services, and the division of regulatory services and animal health,
including a program of laboratory services at the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst, the expenses of the pesticides board, and the division of agricultural
development and fairs; provided, that not less than $45,000 shall be expended
for shellfish propagation on the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket to
be administered by the state aquaculture coordinator and Dukes and Nantucket
counties; provided further, that $100,000 shall be expended for 4H activities
from this item; provided further, that not less than $115,000 shall be expended
for the environmental policy and compliance assistance program; provided further, that funds may be
expended for the Southeastern Massachusetts Agricultural Partnership; provided
further, that funds may be expended for agricultural fair prizes and
rehabilitation, including the expenses of the agricultural lands board; provided
further, that the department shall, to the extent possible, encourage corporate
sponsorships for the purposes of providing agricultural fair prizes; provided
further, that $200,000 shall be expended to enhance the buy local effort in
western, central, northeastern and southeastern Massachusetts; and provided
further, that funds may be expended for implementation of the agricultural
marketing strategic plan, including, but not limited to funding for agricultural
business training and technical assistance........................................................................................................................................
$4,332,692
2511-0105 For the purchase of supplemental foods for the
Massachusetts emergency food assistance program within the America's second
harvest nationally-certified food bank system of Massachusetts; provided, that
the funds appropriated herein shall reflect the America's second harvest
allocation formula, to benefit the four regional food banks in Massachusetts:
The Greater Boston Food Bank, Merrimack Valley Good Bank, The Food Bank of
Western Massachusetts and Worcester County Food Bank ...............................................................
$12,500,000
2511-3002 For
the Integrated Pest Management program.................................................................................
$300,000
Department
of Conservation and Recreation.
2800-0100 For
the operation of the department of conservation and recreation; provided, that
said department shall enter into an interagency service agreement with the
department of state police to provide police coverage on department of
conservation and recreation properties and parkways; provided further, that the
department of state police shall reimburse the department of conservation and
recreation for costs incurred by that department including, but not limited to
vehicle maintenance and repairs, the operation of department of state police
buildings and other related costs; provided further, that $100,000 shall be
expended to assist with the planning and construction of the Blue Hills
Observatory & Science Center at the Blue Hills Reservation; provided
further, that $185,737 shall be expended for staffing at Middlesex Fells
Reservation; provided further, that the playground located adjacent to the Mary
Jeanette Murray Bathhouse on Nantasket Ave on the Nantasket Beach Reservation in
Hull, under the care and control of the department of conservation and
recreation, shall be designated and known as “Jack Phillips Park”, in honor of
the tremendous service of Jack Phillips, a Hull resident and department of
conservation and recreation employee who has been instrumental in restoring the
prestige and beauty of the Nantasket Beach Reservation; provided further, that
suitable markers bearing that designation shall be erected by the department of
conservation and recreation in compliance with the standards of the
department; provided further, that
notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, all offices and
positions of the division performing construction activities for the department
of conservation and recreation shall be subject to classification under sections
45 to 50, inclusive, of chapter 30 of the General Laws; provided further, that
notwithstanding section 3B of chapter 7 of the General Laws, the department
shall establish or renegotiate fees, licenses, permits, rents and leases, and
adjust or develop other revenue sources to fund the maintenance, operation, and
administration of the department; provided further, that an annual report shall
be submitted to the house and senate committees on ways and means regarding fee
adjustments not later than February 14, 2007; provided further, that
notwithstanding any general or special law or administrative bulletin to the
contrary, the department shall not pay any fees charged for the leasing or
maintenance of vehicles to the operational services division; provided further,
that no funds shall be expended from this item for personnel overtime costs;
provided further, that the department shall maintain and retain all operations,
programs, real property and employees related to the Connecticut River Action
Program to promote the conservation and protection of the unique natural
resources present in the Connecticut river valley; provided further, that
notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the department shall
continue to fund a maintenance contract for daily trash removal at Revere beach
through proceeds received by the city of Revere and the department of
conservation and recreation pursuant to section 29 of chapter 236 of the acts of
2002 and section 2 of this act; provided further, that the department shall not
close the Bellegarde boat house in Lowell; provided further, that the
commissioner of conservation and recreation shall meet with the Lowell
legislative delegation and local officials on or before July 31, 2006 to discuss
and develop a plan to keep the Bellegarde boat house open, staffed and
maintained with ongoing renovations; and provided further, that the department
shall notify the house and senate committees on ways and means at least 30 days before closing any facility
owned or operated by the department .............................
$5,968,515
2800-0101 For
the watershed management program to operate and maintain reservoirs, watershed
lands and related infrastructure of the department and the office of water
resources in the department of conservation and recreation; provided, that
$500,000 shall be paid to the town of Clinton, under section 8 of chapter 307 of
the acts of 1987, to compensate for the use of certain land; provided further,
that the amount of the payment shall be charged to the General Fund and shall
not be included in the amount of the annual determination of fiscal year charges
to the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority assessed to the authority under
the General Laws; provided further, that not less than $250,000 shall be
expended for the Mystic River Master Plan; provided further, that not less than
$15,000 shall be expended for weed control in Winter pond in Winchester; provided further, that $100,000 shall
be expended to implement a plan for flood abatement on and adjacent to
Washington street in the town of Holliston; and provided further, that $100,000
shall be expended to the town of Medway for public safety and public works
activities related to storm damage; provided further, that $48,000 shall be
expended for the flood control activities undertaken by the Thames river valley
communities of Massachusetts in conjunction with the state of Connecticut;
provided further, that not less than $25,000 be expended for aquatic weed
control in the Upper Mystic lake in Winchester; and provided further, that not
less than $250,000 shall be expended for a comprehensive study, including a
management plan, for the entire Taunton river watershed, in accordance with the
executive office of environmental affairs “Proposal for Watershed Work Affecting
Water Quality-Wastewater Quality-Wastewater Discharges and Stormwater
Discharges”, dated
2800-0200 For
the operation of the Commonwealth Zoological Corporation pursuant to chapter 92B
of the General Laws; provided, that $50,000 shall be expended for the Buttonwood
Park Zoo; provided further, that funds appropriated in this item shall be
expended for the purposes of promoting private fundraising, achieving
self-sufficiency and serving as a catalyst for urban economic development and
job opportunities for local residents; provided further, that the corporation
shall take all steps necessary to increase the amount of private funding
available for the operation of the zoos; provided further, that the corporation
shall report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than
2800-0401 For a
program to provide stormwater management for all properties and roadways under
the care, custody and control of the department of conservation and recreation;
provided, that the department shall develop and implement a stormwater
management program in compliance with federal and state stormwater management
requirements; provided further, that the department shall inventory all existing
stormwater infrastructure, assess its current stormwater practices, analyze long
term capital and operational needs, and develop a stormwater management plan to
comply with federal and state regulatory requirements; and provided further,
that in order to protect public safety and to protect water resources for water
supply, recreational and ecosystem uses, the department will immediately
implement interim stormwater management practices including but not limited to
street sweeping, inspection and cleaning of catch basins, and emergency repairs
to roadway drainage..................................
$950,000
2800-0500 For
the freshwater and saltwater beaches under the control of the department of
conservation and recreation; provided, that all beaches shall remain open and
staffed from Memorial Day through Labor Day; provided further, that the beaches shall
have their full amount of required maintenance and upkeep; provided further,
that the department shall file a report with the house and senate committees on
ways and means not later than
2800-0600 For the
pools and spray pools under the control of the department of conservation and
recreation; provided, that all pools and spray pools shall remain open and
staffed from Memorial Day through Labor Day; provided further, that the pools and
spray pools shall have their full amount of required maintenance and upkeep; and
provided further, that the department shall file a report with the house and
senate committees on ways and means not later than
2800-0700 For
an office of dam safety to regulate dams in the commonwealth pursuant to chapter
253 of the General Laws; provided, that the department shall, in collaboration
with the department of environmental protection and the department of fish and
game, establish and maintain a comprehensive inventory of all dams in
Massachusetts, and develop a coordinated permitting and regulatory approach to
dam removal for stream restoration and public safety……………………………................................................................................................
$1,045,000
2800-0800 For
the resource management planning program to be conducted by the Stewardship
Council and the department of conservation and recreation; provided, that
employees of the department of conservation and recreation may be paid from this
item; and provided further, that those employees shall provide services for the
purposes of this item…..............................................................................................................................................................
$600,000
2800-9004 For
certain payments for the maintenance and use of the
2810-0100 For
the operations of the division of state parks and recreation; provided, that
funds appropriated in this item shall be used to operate all of the division’s
parks, heritage state parks, reservations, campgrounds, beaches and pools and
for the oversight of rinks, to protect and manage the division’s lands and
natural resources including the forest and parks conservation services and the
bureau of forestry development; provided further, that no funds from this item
shall be made available for payment to true seasonal employees; provided
further, that the department may issue grants to public and nonpublic entities
from this item; provided further,
that Watson pond state park in Taunton and Ames Nowell state park in Abington
shall remain open and appropriately staffed to allow public swimming and
recreation for the season; provided further, that $150,000 shall be expended for
the Schooner Ernestina commission; and provided further, that the level of
funding for the beaches and pools from this item in fiscal year 2007 shall not
be reduced from fiscal year 2006...................................................................................................
$20,485,304
2810-0200 For
summer employment programs at department of conservation and recreation
facilities; provided, that the programs shall include peer-led youth recreation
and interpretive programs, a youth all-star band, and a park repair and
improvement program by skilled and unskilled laborers; provided further, that
the programs shall provide opportunities for underprivileged populations,
especially in economic development areas; and provided further, that not less
than $1,000,000 shall be allocated for the city of Boston......................................
$2,000,000
2810-2000 For
the seasonal hires of the division of state parks and recreation, including
hires for the forest fire control unit; provided, that no funds from this item
shall be expended for year-round seasonal employees; provided further, that
seasonal employees who are hired before the second Sunday before Memorial Day
and whose employment continues beyond the Saturday following Labor Day and who
received health insurance benefits in fiscal year 2006 shall continue to receive
the benefits in fiscal year 2007 during the period of their seasonal employment;
provided further, that no expenditures shall be made from the amount
appropriated other than for those purposes identified in this item; provided
further, that notwithstanding section 1 of chapter 31 of the General Laws,
seasonal positions funded by this item are positions requiring the services of
an incumbent, on either a full-time or less than full-time basis beginning not
earlier than April 1 and ending not later than November 30, or beginning not
earlier than September 1 and ending not later than April 30; and provided
further, that notwithstanding said section 1 of said chapter 31, seasonal
positions funded by this item shall not be filled by an incumbent for more than
8 months within a 12-month period...............................................................................................................................................
$5,567,735
2810-2040 The
division of state parks and recreation may expend not more than $4,454,826 from revenue collected from fees charged
by the division, including revenues collected from campsite reservation
transactions from the automated campground reservation and registration program
for additional expenses, upkeep and improvements to the parks and recreation
system and for the personnel costs of seasonal employees; provided, that no
funds from this item shall be expended for the costs of full-time equivalent
personnel; provided further, that for the purpose of accommodating timing
discrepancies between the receipt of retained revenues and related expenditures,
the division may incur expenses and the comptroller may certify for payment
amounts not to exceed the lower of this authorization or the most recent revenue
estimate as reported in the state accounting system; provided further, that no
expenditures made in advance of the receipts shall be permitted to exceed 75 per
cent of the amount of revenues projected by the first quarterly statement
required by section 1B; provided further, that the comptroller shall notify
house and senate committees on ways and means at the time subsequent quarterly
statements are published of the variance between actual and projected receipts
in each such quarter and the implications of that variance for expenditures
made; and provided further, that the division may issue grants to public and
nonpublic entities from this item ..........................................................................................................................................................
$4,454,826
2820-0100 For
the administration, operation and maintenance of the division of urban parks and
recreation, including for the maintenance, operation and related costs of the
parkways, boulevards, roadways, bridges and related appurtenances under the
care, custody and control of the division, flood control activities of the
division, purchase of all necessary supplies and related equipment, and the
civilianization of crossing guards located at division intersections where state
police previously performed such duties; provided, that the parkways,
boulevards, roadways, bridges and related appurtenances under the care and
custody of the metropolitan district commission in fiscal year 2003 shall remain
solely under the jurisdiction, custody and care of the division of urban parks
and recreation; provided further, that no funds from this item shall be made
available for payment to true seasonal employees; provided further, that not
less than $3,902 shall be expended on the Senator Charles E. Shannon Crossing
Guard Corps at the corner of Mystic avenue and Shore drive in the city of
Somerville; provided further, that
$45,000 shall be expended on the maintenance of Red Rock park on Lynn Shore
drive, in the city of Lynn; provided further, that $60,000 shall be expended for
funding of current employees of the bureau of forest fire control under their
new reclassification firefighter services; provided further, that $225,000 shall
be expended for maintenance and infrastructure repair of the southwest corridor
park; provided further, that $50,000 shall be expended for flood mitigation at
Fellsmere pond; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended
for the purposes of trash removal on Revere beach between May 30th and September
5th, which shall match proceeds generated pursuant to section 29 of chapter 236
of the acts of 2002; provided further, that $297,000 shall be expended for the
James Michael Curley Recreation Center in the city of Boston; provided further,
that $95,000 shall be allocated for a private contractor to maintain the
2820-0101 For
the costs associated with the department’s urban park rangers specific to the
security of the state house; provided, that funds appropriated in this item
shall only be expended for the costs of security and urban park rangers at the
state house................................................................................................................................................
$1,778,080
2820-0200 For
seasonal hires of the division of urban parks and recreation; provided, that no
funds in this item shall be used for year-round seasonals; provided further,
that notwithstanding section 1 of chapter 31 of the General Laws, seasonal
positions funded by this item are positions requiring the services of an
incumbent, on either a full-time or less than full-time basis beginning not
earlier than April 1 and ending not later than November 30, or beginning not
earlier than September 1 and ending not later than April 30; and provided
further, that notwithstanding said section 1 of said chapter 31, seasonal positions funded by
this item shall not be filled by an incumbent for more than 8 months within a
12-month period.........................................................................................................................
$3,159,341
2820-1000 The
division of urban parks and recreation may expend not more than $200,000 from
revenue collected pursuant to section 34B of chapter 92 of the General Laws...........................................................................
$200,000
2820-1001 The
division of urban parks and recreation may expend not more than $50,000 from
revenue collected for the operation and maintenance of the division’s
telecommunications system from revenues received from the Massachusetts Water
Resources Authority, the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, the
department of highways central artery/Ted Williams tunnel project, the
department of state police and quasi-public and private entities through a
system of user fees and other charges established by the commissioner of
conservation and recreation; provided, that nothing in this item shall impair or
diminish the rights of access and utilization of all current users of the system
under agreements previously entered into; and provided further, that this item
may be reimbursed by political subdivisions of the commonwealth and private
entities for direct and indirect costs expended by the division to maintain the
telecommunications system .............................................................................................................
$50,000
2820-2000 For
the expenses of maintaining the parkways within the division of urban parks and
recreation, including the costs of personnel and snow and ice removal
expenses; provided, that the
department of conservation and recreation shall take all measures to ensure that
the department’s snow and ice control efforts are efficient and cost
effective..........................................................................................................................................................
$1,547,434
2820-3001 The
division of urban parks and recreation may expend not more than $750,000 from revenue collected from skating rink
fees and rentals for the operation and maintenance, including personnel costs,
of the Murphy Memorial Rink, the Devine Memorial Rink and the Emmons Horrigan
O’Neill Memorial Rink between
2820-4420 For
the operation and maintenance of the Ponkapoag golf course; provided, that the
division of urban parks and recreation may expend not more than $1,100,000 from revenue collected from
fees generated by the golf course; provided further, that for the purposes of
accommodating discrepancies between the receipt of retained revenue and related
expenditures, the division may incur expenses and the comptroller may certify
for payment amounts not to exceed the lower of this authorization or the most
recent revenue estimate as reported in the state accounting system; and provided
further, notwithstanding section 1 of chapter 31 of the General Laws, seasonal
positions funded by this account are positions requiring the services of an
incumbent, on either a full-time or less than a full-time basis beginning not
earlier than April 1 and ending not later than November 30......................
$1,100,000
2820-4421 For
the operation and maintenance of the Leo J. Martin golf course; provided, that
the division of urban parks and recreation may expend not more than $700,000 from revenue collected from
fees generated by the golf course; provided further, that for the purposes of
accommodating discrepancies between the receipt of retained revenue and related
expenditures, the division may incur expenses and the comptroller may certify
for payment amounts not to exceed the lower of this authorization or the most
recent revenue estimate as reported in the state accounting system; and provided
further, notwithstanding section 1 of chapter 31 of the General Laws, seasonal
positions funded by this account shall be positions requiring the services of an
incumbent, on either a full-time or less than a full-time basis beginning not
earlier than April 1 and ending not later than November 30 ........................
$700,000
2820-9005 For
the operation of street lighting on the division of urban parks and recreation
parkways; provided, that no expenditure shall be made other than in the GG
object class; and provided further, that the department of conservation and
recreation shall take all measures to further ensure that the department’s
street lighting efforts are efficient and cost effective...........................................................................................................
$3,006,832
Department of Early Education
3000-1000 For
the administration of the department of early education and care and the costs
of field operations and licensing provided through the department; provided,
that funds from this item shall be expended on the development and piloting of a
kindergarten readiness assessment system that is educationally sound; provided
further, that funds from this item shall be expended on the development of a
comprehensive evaluation system for all early education and care programs in the
commonwealth; provided further, that not later than
3000-2000 For
the regional administration of early education and care programs and services
and related early education and care activities; provided, that the activities
shall include, but not be limited to, voucher management, regional early
education and care provider training, resource and referral for children with
disabilities in early education and care programs, community-based programs that
provide direct services to parents and coordination of waiting lists for
state-subsidized early education and care; and provided further, that the
department shall administer the child care resource and referral system through
the regional offices funded in this item................
$11,564,079
3000-2050 For
the administration of the Children’s Trust Fund; provided, that notwithstanding
any general of special law to the contrary, the department of early education
and care shall collaborate with Children’s Trust Fund on the implementation of
section 202 of chapter 6 of the General Laws, but shall not exercise any
supervision or control with respect to the board.................................................................................................................
$998,990
3000-3050 For
supportive early education and care associated with the family stabilization
program; provided, that funds from this item shall only be expended for early
education and care costs of children with active cases at the department of
social services; provided further, that the department of social services and
the department of early education and care are directed to design and implement
standards for early education and care placements made under this item; provided
further, that the department of early education and care, in collaboration with
the department of social services, shall maintain a centralized list detailing
the number of children eligible for services in this item, the number of
supportive slots filled, and the number of supportive slots available; provided further, that no waiting list
for the services shall exist; provided further, that all children eligible for
services under this item shall receive said services; provided further, that
if the department determines that
available appropriations for this program will be insufficient to meet projected
expenses, the commissioner shall file with the house and senate committees on
ways and means and with the secretary of administration and finance, a report
detailing the amount of appropriation needed to address such a deficiency; provided further, that the
commissioner of the department of early education and care may transfer funds to
this item from items 3000-1000, 3000-4050 and 3000-4060, as necessary, pursuant
to an allocation plan, which shall detail by object class the distribution of
the funds to be transferred and which the commissioner shall file with the house
and senate committees on ways and means 15 days before the transfer; and
provided further, that not less than $1,300,000 shall be expended to increase
rates for transportation costs associated with this item...............................................................................................................................
$54,673,130
3000-4000 For
preschool programs and services provided to children from the age of 2 years and
9 months until they are kindergarten eligible, through a mixed system of service
delivery including cities, towns, regional school districts, educational
collaboratives, head start programs, and licensed child care providers, under
criteria, guidelines and eligibility established by the board of early education
and care; provided, that any payment made under a grant with a school district
shall be deposited with the treasurer of such city, town, or regional school
district and held as a separate account and shall be expended by the school
committee of such city, town, or regional school district without municipal
appropriation, notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary;
provided further, that in any city or town in which there was only 1 lead agency
in fiscal year 1995, that lead agency shall serve as lead agency to submit
proposals pursuant to section 54
of said chapter 15;
provided further, that the amount by which the funds appropriated in this item
exceed the amount appropriated in item 7030-1000 of chapter 60
of the acts of 1994 shall be used to provide services to the children of working
parents; provided further, that funds appropriated in item 7030-1000 prior to
1994 shall continue to be used for at risk children and special education
purposes; provided further, that in allocating the funds and evaluating grant
applications, the board of early education and care shall give priority
consideration to 3 and 4-year-old children in cities and towns where high
concentrations of low-income working families reside; provided further, that not
less than one-third of the total slots funded by the amount by which the funds
appropriated in this item exceed the amounts appropriated in item 7030-1000 of
chapter 60
shall be for full-day, full-year care that meets the needs of working parents;
provided further, that councils shall give priority in awarding expansion slots
to children on the waitlist maintained by the department for income eligible
slots provided through item 3000-4060; provided further, that these children
shall retain priority status for future services available through the
department upon attaining the age of 5, notwithstanding the receipt of services
funded through this item; provided
further, that funds may be expended for administrative costs of local councils;
and provided further, that recipients of grants distributed from this item shall
not expend more than 10 per cent of the grants for administrative costs,
including salaries and benefits...........................................................
$68,700,570
3000-4050 For
early education and care programs for families in transition; provided, that the
department shall issue monthly reports detailing the number and average cost of
voucher and contracted slots funded from this item and item 3000-3050 by
category of eligibility; provided
further, that the report shall include the number of recipients subject to
subsection (f) of section 110 of chapter 5 of the acts of 1995 funded from this
item; provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the
contrary, the office shall perform post-audit reviews on a representative sample
of the income-eligibility determinations performed by vendors receiving funds
from this item; provided further, that the department shall report quarterly to
the joint committee on education, the joint committee on children and families,
the house and senate committees on ways and means and the secretary of
administration and finance on the error rate, if any, in income-eligibility
determinations calculated by the post audit reviews; provided further, that
recipients of benefits under the employment services program or any successor
program, participants of any component activity under the program of
transitional aid to families with dependent children, former recipients of
transitional aid to families with dependent children who are employed during the
year after termination of benefits, former recipients of transitional aid to
families with dependent children
participating in education or training programs authorized by department
of transitional assistance regulations, parents under the age of 18 currently
enrolled in an education or job training program who would qualify for
transitional aid for families with dependent children, but for the deeming of
grandparents' income, and former recipients of transitional aid to families with
dependent children who are employed or in an authorized period of job search as
of the expiration of the transitional year, and require post-transitional early
education and care vouchers, shall be paid for from this item; provided further,
that recipients of transitional aid to families with dependent children shall
not be charged fees for care provided under this item; provided further, that
early education and care for the children of teen parents receiving transitional
aid to families with dependent children benefits, teen parents receiving
supplemental security income payments and whose dependent children receive the
aid, and teen parents at risk of becoming eligible for transitional aid to
families with dependent children benefits shall be paid from this item; provided
further, that all teens eligible for year-round full-time early education and
care services shall be participating in school, education, work and
training-related activities or a combination thereof for at least the minimum
number of hours required by regulations promulgated for the program of
transitional aid, whether or not such teens are recipients of benefits from the
program; provided further, that early education and care slots funded from this
item shall be distributed geographically in a manner that provides fair and
adequate access to early education and care for all eligible individuals;
provided further, that informal early education and care benefits shall be
funded from this item; provided further, that not more than $2 per child per
hour shall be paid for the services; provided further, that income-eligible
early education and care shall not be funded from this item; and provided
further, that, as these cases are a priority, if the department determines that
available appropriations for this program will be insufficient to meet projected
expenses, the commissioner shall file with the house and senate committees on
ways and means and with the secretary of administration and finance, a report
detailing the amount of appropriation needed to address the deficiency......................................................................................................................................................
$163,151,082
3000-4060 For
income-eligible early education and care programs; provided, that income
eligible programs shall not include the employment services child care program,
transitional child care programs, or post-transitional child care programs;
provided further, that not less than 500 early education and care slots shall be
reserved for children in the foster care program at the department of social
services; provided further, that informal early education and care benefits for
families meeting income-eligibility criteria shall be funded from this item;
provided further, that not more than $2 per child per hour shall be paid for the
services; provided further, that early education and care slots funded from this
item shall be distributed geographically in a manner that provides fair and
adequate access to early education and care for all eligible individuals;
provided further, that all early education and care providers that are part of a
public school system shall be required to accept early education and care
vouchers from recipients funded through this appropriation; provided further,
that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the office
shall perform post-audit reviews on a representative sample of the
income-eligibility determinations performed by vendors receiving funds from this
item; provided further, that the department shall report quarterly to the joint
committee on education, the joint committee on children and families, the house
and senate committees on ways and means and the secretary of administration and
finance on the error rate, if any, in income-eligibility determinations
calculated by the post audit reviews; and provided further, that the department
shall maintain not less than the same number of vouchers funded in fiscal year
2006.....................................................................................
$150,714,917
3000-5000 For
grants to head start programs....................................................................................................
$8,500,000
3000-6000 For
early education and care quality expenditures; provided, that $1,400,000
shall be expended for one-time pilot contracts for early childhood mental health
consultation services in early education and care programs; provided further,
that, for such pilot contracts, preference shall be given to those services
designed to limit the number of expulsions and suspensions from the programs;
provided further, that the department, in collaboration with the community
partnership councils and child care resource and referral agencies, shall issue
with its March 2007 monthly report, information estimating the number of
pre-school suspensions and expulsions that occur each year in the commonwealth,
the relative frequency of each type of mental illness or behavioral issues among
children receiving programs and services from the department, and an analysis of
the most effective intervention strategies; provided further, that said report
shall be provided, along with recommendations for legislative or regulatory
changes, to the secretary of administration and finance, the senate president,
the speaker of the house, the chairpersons of the house and senate ways and
means committees and the house and senate chairpersons of the joint committee on
education; provided further, that not less than $1,321,145 shall be expended for
activities to increase the supply of quality early education and care for
infants and toddlers; provided further, that not less than $1,000,000 shall be
expended for resource and referral services provided through item 3000-2000;
provided further, that not less than $234,248 shall be expended for school-age
child care activities; provided further, that no funds from this item shall be
used to fund capital assets or equipment for for-profit providers or agencies;
provided further, that no funds shall be expended for the DD object class
expenses of the department, out of state travel, bottled water, chargebacks,
office equipment, prior year deficiencies, or the Virtual Gateway system; and
provided further, that no funds shall be expended, obligated or transferred from
this item before the submission of written certification by the commissioner to
the house and senate committees on ways and means that all planned expenditures
and allocations from this item shall have no fiscal impact beyond fiscal year
2007..............................................................
$4,120,403
3000-7000 For
statewide neonatal and postnatal home parenting education and home visiting
programs for at-risk newborns to be administered by the Children’s Trust Fund;
provided, that the department shall collaborate with the Children’s Trust Fund,
whenever feasible and appropriate, to coordinate services provided though this
item with services provided through items 3000-7050, 3000-7060 and 3000-7070, in
order to ensure that parents receiving services through this item are aware of
all opportunities available to them and their children through the department;
provided further, that such services shall be made available statewide to
parents under the age of 21 years; and provided further, that notwithstanding
any general or special law to the contrary, priority for such services shall be
given to low income parents...........................................................................................................................................
$12,563,844
3000-7050 For
the Mass Family Networks program; provided, that the department shall, to the
maximum extent feasible, coordinate services provided though this item with
services provided through items 3000-7000, 3000-7060 and 3000-7070, in order to
ensure that parents receiving services through this item are aware of all
opportunities available to them and their children through the department...............................................
$5,395,694
3000-7060 For
grants for the home-based parenting and family literacy program known as the
Parent-Child Home Program; provided, that the department shall distribute the
funds to expand capacity at existing Parent-Child Home Program sites and to
establish replication sites in cities and towns where high concentrations of low
income families reside; provided further, that for grants awarded to establish
the replication sites, the department shall consider applications from school
districts or social service agencies that demonstrate the capacity to replicate
the home visiting program to serve area low income families; provided further,
that the department shall, to the maximum extent feasible, coordinate services
provided though this item with services provided through items 3000-7000,
3000-7050 and 3000-7070, in order to ensure that parents receiving services
through this item are aware of all opportunities available to them and their
children through the department; and provided further, that the preference for
the grants shall be given to applicants who demonstrate a commitment to maximize
federal and local funding for the operation of the replication site....................................................................................................................
$3,000,000
3000-7070 For
matching grants to fund the Reach Out and Read program, to provide books to
at-risk children through book distribution programs established in community
health centers, medical practices and hospitals for at-risk children; provided,
that the funds distributed through this program shall be contingent upon a match
of not less than $1 in private or corporate contributions for every $1 in state
funding distributed through the grant program; and provided further, that the
department shall, to the maximum extent feasible, coordinate services provided
though this item with services provided through items 3000-7000, 3000-7050 and
3000-7060 in order to ensure that parents receiving services through this item
are aware of all opportunities available to them and their children through the
department..........................................................................................................................................................
$1,000,000
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF HEALTH
Office
of the Secretary.
4000-0112 For
matching grants to boys’ and girls’ clubs, YMCA and YWCA organizations,
nonprofit community centers, and youth development programs; provided, that the
secretary of health and human services shall award the full amount of each grant
to each organization upon commitment of matching funds from the organization;
provided further, that not less than $3,000,000 shall be expended for the
Massachusetts Alliance of Boys and Girls Clubs; provided further, that not less
than $80,000 shall be expended for the young parents program of the Newton
Community Service Centers; provided further, that not less than $40,000 shall be
expended for the public partnership program between the greater Lynn YMCA and
YWCA and the public partnership program between the town of Saugus and the
Saugus YMCA and YWCA; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be
expended for programs at the Northeast Family YMCA; provided further, that not
less than $100,000 shall be expended for programs at the YWCA of Newburyport;
provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended for the Project
Adventure Youth Leadership Program administered by Family Services Incorporated
of Lawrence; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended for
programs at the Girls Incorporated of Holyoke drop-in center; provided further,
that not less than $25,000 shall be expended for programs at the Fishing
Academy, Incorporated; provided further, that not less than $125,000 shall be
expended for the Greater Worcester YMCA Youth Programs; provided further, that
not less than $50,000 shall be expended for youth counseling,
GED/School-to-Career Program, drug prevention, and at-risk youth services at a
regional youth center in Uxbridge; provided further, that not less than $50,000
shall be expended for programs at the Merrimack Valley YMCA; provided further,
that not less that $100,000 shall be expended for the United Teen Equality
Center in Lowell; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended
for youth and family programs at the West Suburban YMCA; provided further, that
not less than $50,000 shall be expended for health and wellness programming at
the YWCA of Greater Lawrence; provided further, that not less than $100,000
shall be expended for the Springfield Day Nursery; and provided further, that
the secretary shall report to the house and senate committees on ways and means
on the exact amount distributed in fiscal year 2007 by March 1, 2007................................................................................................................................
$3,970,000
4000-0300 For
the operation of the executive office, including the operation of the managed
care oversight board; provided, that the executive office shall provide
technical and administrative assistance to agencies under the purview of the
secretariat receiving federal funds; provided further, that the executive office
and its agencies, when contracting for services on the islands of Martha’s
Vineyard and Nantucket, shall take into consideration the increased costs
associated with the provision of goods, services, and housing on said islands;
provided further, that the executive office shall monitor the expenditures and
completion timetables for systems development projects and enhancements
undertaken by all agencies under the purview of the secretariat, and shall
ensure that all measures are taken to make such systems compatible with one
another for enhanced interagency interaction; provided further, that the
executive office shall continue to develop and implement the common client
identifier; provided further, that the executive office shall ensure that any
collaborative assessments for children receiving services from multiple agencies
within the secretariat shall be performed within existing resources; provided
further, that funds appropriated herein shall be expended for the
administrative, contracted services and non-personnel systems costs related to
the implementation and operation of programs authorized by sections 9A to 9C,
inclusive, and sections 16B and 16C of chapter 118E of the General Laws;
provided further, that such costs shall include, but not be limited to,
pre-admission screening, utilization review, medical consultants, disability
determination reviews, health benefit managers, interagency service agreements,
the management and operation of the central automated vendor payment system,
including the recipient eligibility verification system, vendor contracts to
upgrade and enhance the central automated vendor payment system, the medicaid
management information system and the recipient eligibility verification system
MA21, costs related to the information technology chargebacks, contractors
responsible for system maintenance and development, personal computers and other
information technology equipment; provided further, that 50 per cent of the cost
of provider point of service eligibility verification devices purchased shall be
assumed by the providers utilizing the devices; provided further, that the
executive office shall assume the full cost of provider point of service
eligibility verification devices utilized by any and all participating dental
care providers; provided further, that in consultation with the division of
health care finance and policy, no rate increase shall be provided to existing
medicaid provider rates without taking all measures possible under Title XIX of
the Social Security Act to ensure that rates of payment to providers do not
exceed such rates as are necessary to meet only those costs which must be
incurred by efficiently and economically operated providers in order to provide
services of adequate quality; provided further, that expenditures for the
purposes of each item appropriated for the purpose of programs authorized by
chapter 118E of the General Laws shall be accounted for according to such
purpose on the Massachusetts management accounting and reporting system not more
than 10 days after such expenditures have been made by the medicaid management
information system; provided further, that no expenditures shall be made for the
purpose of such programs that are not federally reimbursable, except as
specifically authorized herein, or unless made for cost containment efforts the
purposes and amounts of which have been submitted to the house and senate
committees on ways and means 30 days prior to making such expenditures; provided
further, that the executive office may continue to recover provider overpayments
made in the current and prior fiscal years through the medicaid management
information system, and that such recoveries shall be deemed current fiscal year
expenditure refunds; provided further, that the executive office may collect
directly from a liable third party any amounts paid to contracted providers
under chapter 118E of the General Laws for which the executive office later
discovers another third party is liable if no other course of recoupment is
possible; provided further, that no funds shall be expended for the purpose of
funding interpretive services directly or indirectly related to a settlement or
resolution agreement, with the office of civil rights or any other office, group
or entity; provided further, that interpretive services currently provided shall
not give rise to enforceable legal rights for any party or to an enforceable
entitlement to interpretive services; provided further, that notwithstanding any
general or special law to the contrary, for fiscal year 2007 the definition of a
rural hospital shall mean an acute care hospital as defined under section 25B of
chapter 111 of the General Laws and licensed under said chapter 111, which: (1)
has been designated by the executive office as a rural hospital based on bed
size, city or town population, and population density of the city, town, service
area or county as determined by the executive office through regulation; or (2)
is a hospital currently designated as a Critical Access Hospital by the Federal
Department of Health and Human Services in accordance with federal regulations
and state requirements; provided further, that the federal financial
participation received from claims filed for the costs of outreach and
eligibility activities performed at certain hospitals or by community health
centers which are funded in whole or in part by federally permissible in-kind
services or provider donations from the hospitals or health centers, shall be
credited to this item and may be expended without further appropriation in an
amount specified in the agreement with each donating provider hospital or health
center; provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the
contrary, the executive office shall require the commissioner of mental health
to approve any prior authorization or other restriction on medication used to
treat mental illness in accordance with written policies, procedures and
regulations of the department of mental health; provided further, that
notwithstanding section 1 of chapter 118G of the General Laws or any general or
special law to the contrary, for fiscal year 2007 the definition of a “pediatric
specialty unit” shall mean a level 1 burn and trauma center for pediatrics or a
pediatric unit of an acute care hospital in which the ratio of licensed
pediatric beds to total licensed hospital beds as of July 1, 1994, exceeded
0.20; provided further, that in calculating that ratio, licensed pediatric beds
shall include the total of all pediatric service beds, and the total of all
licensed hospital beds shall include the total of all licensed acute care
hospital beds, consistent with Medicare's acute care hospital reimbursement
methodology as put forth in the Provider Reimbursement Manual Part 1, Section
2405.3G; provided further, that a hospital with a unit designated as a
pediatric specialty unit, or which maintains a level 1 burn and trauma center
for pediatrics as defined in this item shall be exempt from the inpatient and
outpatient efficiency standards being applied to their rate methodology; provided further, that in calculating rates
of payment for children enrolled in MassHealth receiving inpatient services at
acute care pediatric hospitals and pediatric subspecialty units as defined in
section 1 of chapter 118G of the General Laws, the executive office shall make a
supplemental payment, if necessary, sufficient to assure that inpatient SPAD and outlier
payments for discharges with a
case mix acuity greater than 5.0 shall be at least equal to 85 per cent of the
expenses incurred in providing services to those children; provided further,
that in determining the inpatient and outpatient acute hospital rates of
payment, the executive office and its contractors shall utilize a payment
methodology so that rates of payment are not less than those in effect during
fiscal year 2006; provided further, that said inpatient rates for acute
hospitals shall also include outlier benefits which were in effect on January 1,
2003 for all MassHealth members; provided further, that in determining the
inpatient and outpatient nonacute hospital rates of payment, the executive
office and its contractors shall utilize a payment methodology so that rates of
payment are not less than those in effect during fiscal year 2006; provided
further, that said executive office shall not reduce the supplement to chronic
disease and rehab hospitals administrative day rate below that which was granted
during hospital fiscal year 2006; provided further, that said executive office,
in fiscal year 2007, shall not eliminate payment to hospital outpatient
departments for primary care provided to MassHealth members; provided further, that a new methodology
shall be established for rates reimbursed by the commonwealth through the
division of health care finance and policy and the executive office of health
and human services to cover the cost of care provided by any health care
facility licensed by the department of public health as a non-acute chronic
hospital with no fewer than 500 licensed beds as of June 30, 2005, with no fewer
than 150,000 Medicaid patient days in the state fiscal year ended June 30, 2006,
and with an established geriatric teaching program for physicians, medical
students, and other health professionals, as follows: (1) The rate for any such
facility shall be developed collaboratively through an agreement among the
office of Medicaid, the division of health care finance and policy, and any such
health care facility; (2) The reimbursement methodology shall incorporate the
following components: (a) utilization of the payment methodology in effect
during fiscal year 2006 together with the most recent 403 cost report filed with
the division of health care finance and policy, (b) a per diem rate shall be
established which reimburses the full allowable cost, including capital, for
both acute and administratively necessary services, (c) a separate per diem rate
shall be established which reimburses the full allowable cost, including
capital, for long term care services, (d) both rates shall include the full
allowable cost, not otherwise reimbursed, of teaching and research activities,
and (e) rates shall be inflated over the base year period by the applicable
medicare market basket inflation factors, including an adjustment to account for
costs outside the reasonable control of the facility that may arise; (3) Until
such time as the new reimbursement methodology is established pursuant to this
section, the per diem rates for any such facility shall be increased by at least
$34 per day for the year starting
July 1, 2006, and by 5 percent annually for each subsequent year; and (4) Rates
of payment shall not be less than those in effect for such facility in fiscal
year 2006; provided further, that
not later than September 1, 2006, the executive office of health and human
services shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and
means detailing planned fiscal year 2007 expenditures by the executive office as
funded by chargebacks to the 17 executive office cluster agencies;
provided further, that no later than March 1, 2007, the executive office,
in consultation with the division of health care finance and policy, shall
submit a report evaluating the processes used to determine eligibility for
Medicaid and free care services, including the Virtual Gateway; provided
further, that the report shall include: (i) an analysis of the effectiveness of
these processes in enforcing eligibility requirements for publicly funded health
programs and in enrolling uninsured residents into programs of health insurance
offered by public and private sources; (ii) an assessment of the impact of these
processes on the level of free care by providers; and (iii) recommendations for
ongoing improvements that will enhance the performance of eligibility
determination systems and reduce hospital administrative costs; provided
further, that the secretary shall ensure that all medicaid benefit restorations,
program expansions, and rate increases required pursuant to chapter 58 of the
acts of 2006 are implemented in fiscal year 2007; provided further, that
effective July 1, 2006, the executive office shall include smoking and tobacco
use cessation treatment and information within MassHealth covered services
pursuant to section 108 of chapter 58 of the acts of 2006; provided further,
that with respect to section 6037 of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, the
executive office shall assist applicants and recipients in obtaining the
required verification at no cost to the applicants and recipients; provided
further, that the executive office shall not, by amendment to the state plan or
amendment to the Section 1115 demonstration program, elect any state option to
increase premiums and cost sharing or reduce benefits pursuant to sections 1916A
and 1937 of the Social Security Act as amended by chapter 4 of Title VI of the
Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, Pub. L. No. 109-171 with respect to any category
of persons eligible for medical benefits under chapter 118E as said chapter was
in effect on January 1, 2006; and provided further, that any projection of
deficiency in item 4000-0320, 4000-0430, 4000-0500, 4000-0600, 4000-0620,
4000-0700, 4000-0860, 4000-0870, 4000-0875, 4000-0880, 4000-0890, 4000-0891,
4000-0895, 4000-0990, 4000-1400 or 4000-1405, shall be reported to the house and
senate committees on ways and means not less than 90 days before the projected
exhaustion of funding and that any unexpended balance in these accounts shall
revert to the General Fund on June 30, 2007 $134,283,096
4000-0320 The
executive office may expend an amount not to exceed $225,000,000 from the monies
received from recoveries of any current or prior year expenditures and
collections from liens, estate recoveries, third party recoveries, drug rebates,
accident and trauma recoveries, case mix recoveries, computer audits, insurance
recoveries, provider overpayment recoveries, bankruptcy settlements, Masspro and
Healthpro refunds, medicaid fraud returns, data match returns, Medicare appeals,
and program and utilization review audits; provided, that additional categories
of recoveries and collections, including the balance of any personal needs
accounts collected from nursing and other medical institutions upon a
recipient’s death and held by the executive office for more than 3 years, may,
notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, be credited to this
item; provided further, that any revenues collected by the division that are not
attributable to the aforementioned categories shall be deposited in the General
Fund and shall be tracked separately; provided further, that additional
categories of recoveries and collections may be credited to this item after
providing written notice to the house and senate committees on ways and means;
provided further, that no funds from this item shall be used for the purposes of
item 4000-0300; provided further, that expenditures from this item shall be
limited solely to payments for the provision of medical care and assistance
rendered in the current fiscal year; and provided further, that the executive
office shall file quarterly with the house and senate committees on ways and
means, a report delineating the amount of current year rebates from
pharmaceutical companies or other current year collections which are being used
to supplement current year expenditures..............................................................................................................................
$225,000,000
4000-0430 For
the commonhealth program to provide primary and supplemental medical care and
assistance to disabled adults and children under sections 9A, 16 and 16A of
chapter 118E of the General Laws; provided, that funds may be expended from this
item for health care services provided to the recipients in prior fiscal years;
provided further, that the executive office shall maximize federal reimbursement
for state expenditures made on behalf of such adults and children; provided
further, that children shall be determined eligible for the medical care and
assistance if they meet the disability standards as defined by the executive
office, which standards shall be no more restrictive than the standards in
effect on
4000-0500 For
health care services provided to medical assistance recipients under the
executive office’s primary care clinician/mental health and substance abuse plan
or through a health maintenance organization under contract with the executive
office; provided, that funds may be expended from this item for health care
services provided to the recipients in prior fiscal years; provided further,
that no payment for special provider costs shall be made from this item without
the prior written approval of the secretary of administration and finance;
provided further, that expenditures from this item shall be made only for the
purposes expressly stated herein; provided further, that the secretary of health
and human services and the commissioner of mental health shall report quarterly
to the house and senate committees on ways and means relative to the performance
of the managed care organization under contract with the executive office to
administer the mental health and substance abuse benefit; provided further, that
such quarterly reports shall include, but not be limited to, analyses of
utilization trends, quality of care and costs across all service categories and
modalities of care purchased from providers through the mental health and
substance abuse program, including those services provided to clients of the
department of mental health; provided further, that in conjunction with the new
medicaid management information system project, said executive office shall
continue to study the feasibility of modifying its claim payment system, in
collaboration with the MassHealth behavioral health contractor, to routinely
process for payment valid claims for medically necessary covered medical
services to eligible recipients with psychiatric and substance abuse diagnoses
on a timely basis in an effort to avoid delay and expenses incurred by lengthy
appeals processes; provided further, that said secretary shall report to the
house and senate committee on ways and means any proposed modifications to said
payment system, and a timeline of steps to be taken to implement said
modifications; provided further, that not less than $14,000,000 shall be
expended for disproportionate share payments for inpatient services provided at
pediatric specialty hospitals and units, including pediatric chronic and
rehabilitation long-term care hospitals as allowable under federal law; provided
further, that not less than $2,000,000 of said $14,000,000 shall be expended as
a grant to said pediatric chronic and rehabilitation long-term care hospital;
provided further, that $11,700,000 shall be expended on disproportionate share
payments to high public payer hospitals; and provided further, that not less
than $87,000,000 shall be expended to increase actuarially sound rates pursuant
to section 122 of chapter 58 of the acts of 2006... $2,520,227,848
Executive
Office of Elder Affairs.
4000-0600 For
health care services provided to medical assistance recipients under the
department’s senior care plan; provided, that funds may be expended from this
item for health care services provided to these recipients in prior fiscal
years; provided further, that no payment for special provider costs shall be
made from this item without the prior written approval of the secretary of
administration and finance; provided further, that not less than
$9,240,000 shall be expended for a demonstration project known as the “community
choices” initiative; provided further, that benefit for this demonstration
project shall not be reduced below the services provided in fiscal year 2006;
provided further, that the eligibility requirements for this demonstration
project shall not be more restrictive than those established in fiscal year
2006; provided further, that the
executive office of health and human services shall submit a report to the house
and senate committees on ways and means detailing the projected costs and the
number of individuals served by the “community choices” initiative in fiscal
year 2007 delineated by the federal poverty level; provided further, that the
report shall be submitted not later than February 1, 2007; provided further,
that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the
regulations, criteria and standards for determining admission to and continued
stay in a nursing home in fiscal year 2007 shall not be more restrictive than
those regulations, criteria and standards in effect on January 1, 2004 until the
executive office of health and human services and the executive office of elder
affairs submit a multi-year plan to the house and senate committees on ways and
means and the joint committee on health care financing detailing the suggested
timeline for phasing in changes to nursing home clinical criteria, provided that
these changes shall not adversely affect current nursing home residents and
shall not jeopardize the effectiveness of the 2176 home and community based
waiver; provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the
contrary, for any nursing home or nonacute chronic disease hospital that
provides kosher food to its residents, the department, in consultation with the
division, in recognition of the unique special innovative program status granted
by the executive office, shall continue to make the standard payment rates
established in fiscal year 2006 to reflect the high dietary costs incurred in
providing kosher food; provided further, that not less than $75,000 shall be
made available to reimburse providers of dementia-specific adult day care at the
rate paid on January 1, 2003; provided further, that the department shall, in
correlation with the senior care options program, explore options for enrolling
the senior care population into managed care programs through federal waivers or
other necessary means; provided further, that the secretary of elder affairs may
transfer not more than 3 per cent of funds appropriated in this item to item
4000-0620; provided further, that the executive office shall provide written
notice to the house and senate committees on ways and means not less than 30
days prior to any transfer; provided further, that subject to Title XIX of the
Social Security Act, MassHealth enrollees shall not be eligible for long term
care services if the enrollee’s equity interest in the enrollee’s home exceeds
$750,000; provided further, that in determining medicaid rates for the cost of
care provided by the only mentally involved/medically involved (MIMI) nursing
facility in the commonwealth the executive office and its contractors shall
utilize a payment methodology so that rates of payment are not less than those
in effect during fiscal year 2006; provided further, that not less than
$2,000,000 shall be expended for the purpose of a housing with services
demonstration project known as the “Caring
4000-0620 For
the senior care options program; provided, that the secretary of elder affairs
may transfer not more than 15 per cent of funds appropriated in this item to
item 4000-0600; and provided further, that the department shall provide written
notice to the house and senate committees on ways and means not less than 30
days prior to any transfer........................................................................................................................................................
$83,872,908
4000-0700 For
health care services provided to medical assistance recipients under the
executive office’s health care indemnity/third party liability plan and medical
assistance recipients not otherwise covered under the executive office’s managed
care or senior care plans; provided, that funds may be expended from this item
for health care services provided to the recipients in prior fiscal years;
provided further, that no payment for special provider costs shall be made from
this item without the prior written approval of the secretary of administration
and finance; provided further, that expenditures from this item shall be made
only for the purposes expressly stated in this item; provided further, that
notwithstanding the foregoing, funds may be expended from this item for the
purchase of third party insurance including, but not limited to, Medicare for
any medical assistance recipient including, but not limited to, seniors;
provided further, that funds may be expended from this item for activities
relating to disability determinations or utilization management and review,
including patient screenings and evaluations, regardless of whether such
activities are performed by a state agency, contractor, agent or provider; and
provided further, that the executive office shall submit a report to the
executive office of administration and finance and the house and senate
committees on ways and means not later than
4000-0860 For
MassHealth benefits provided to children and adults under clauses (a), (b), (c),
(d) and (h) of subsection (2) of section 9A of chapter 118E of the General Laws;
provided, that no funds shall be expended from this item for children and
adolescents under clause (c) of said subsection (2) of said section 9A of said
chapter 118E whose family incomes, as determined by the executive office,
exceeds 150 per cent of the federal poverty level; provided, that funds may be
expended from this item for health care services provided to the recipients in
prior fiscal years......................................................................................................................................................
$409,091,466
4000-0870 For
health care services provided to adults participating in the medical assistance
program pursuant to clause (g) of subsection (2) of section 9A of chapter 118E
of the General Laws; provided, that funds may be expended from this item for
health care services provided to such recipients in prior fiscal years.................
$98,206,928
4000-0875 For
the provision of benefits to eligible women who require medical treatment for
either breast or cervical cancer in accordance with 1902(a)(10)(A)(ii)(XVIII) of
the Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act of 2000, Public Law
106-354, and in accordance with section 10D of chapter 118E of the General Laws;
provided, that the executive office shall provide benefits to women whose
income, as determined by the executive office, does not exceed 250 per cent of
the federal poverty level, subject to continued federal approval; provided further, that eligibility for
such benefits shall be extended solely for the duration of such cancerous
condition; provided further, that prior to the provision of any benefits covered
by this item, the executive office shall require screening for either breast or
cervical cancer at the comprehensive breast and cervical cancer early detection
program operated by the department of public health, in accordance with item
4570-1512 of section 2D; and provided further, that funds may be expended from
this item for health care services provided to these recipients in prior fiscal
years..........................................................................................................................................................
$3,951,303
4000-0880 For
MassHealth benefits under clause (c) of subsection (2) of section 9A and section
16C of chapter 118E of the General Laws as amended by chapter 58 of the acts of
2006 for children and adolescents whose family incomes as determined by the
executive office are above 150 per cent of the federal poverty level; provided,
that funds may be expended from this item for health care services provided to
the children and adolescents in prior fiscal years; and provided further, that
children who have aged out of the custody of the department of social services
shall be eligible for these benefits until they reach age 20, subject to federal
approval...........................................
$100,095,712
4000-0890 For
the cost of health insurance premium subsidies paid to employees of small
businesses participating in the insurance reimbursement program under section 9C
of chapter 118E of the General Laws, as amended by chapter 58 of the acts of
2006..........................................................................................................................................
$45,011,915
4000-0891 For
the cost of health insurance subsidies paid to employers participating in the
insurance reimbursement program under section 9C of chapter 118E of the General
Laws; provided, that the executive office of health and human services shall
directly market the program to private human service providers that deliver
human and social services under contract with departments within the executive
office and the department of elder affairs for the purpose of mitigating health
insurance costs to the employers and their employees.......................... $6,996,069
4000-0895 For
the healthy start program to provide medical care and assistance to pregnant
women and infants residing in the commonwealth pursuant to section 10E of
chapter 118E of the General Laws; provided, that the executive office shall no
later than
4000-0990 For
the children’s medical security plan to provide primary and preventive health
services for uninsured children from birth through age 18; provided, that the
executive office shall prescreen enrollees and applicants for medicaid
eligibility; provided further, that no applicant shall be enrolled in the
program until the applicant has been denied eligibility for the MassHealth
program; provided further, that the MassHealth benefit request shall be used as
a joint application to determine the eligibility for both MassHealth and the
children’s medical security plan; provided further, that the executive office
shall maximize federal reimbursements for state expenditures made on behalf of
the children; provided further, that the executive office shall expend all
necessary funds from this item to ensure the provision of the maximum benefit
levels for this program, as authorized by section 10F of chapter 118E of the
General Laws; provided further, that the maximum benefit levels for this program
shall be made available only to those children who have been determined by the
executive office to be ineligible for MassHealth benefits; provided further,
that notwithstanding subsection (d) of section 10F of chapter 118E of the
General Laws, or any general or special law to the contrary, premiums for this
program shall be collected according to the following eligibility categories:
(1) enrollees in households earning less than 200 per cent of the federal
poverty level shall not be responsible for contributing to program premium
costs; (2) enrollees in households earning between 200 per cent and 300 per cent
of the federal poverty level, inclusive, shall contribute not less than 20 per
cent and not more than 30 per cent of the monthly premium cost according to a
sliding scale established by the executive office; provided further, that
additional contributions shall not be required for any enrollee after the third
enrollee in such a household; (3) enrollees in households earning between 301
per cent and 400 percent of the federal poverty level, inclusive, shall
contribute not less than 85 per cent and not more than 90 per cent of the
monthly premium cost according to a sliding scale established by the executive
office; provided, that additional contributions shall not be required for any
enrollee after the first enrollee in such a household; and (4) enrollees in
households earning more than 400 per cent of the federal poverty level shall pay
not more than the full premium cost of the program; and provided further, that
funds may be expended from this item for health care services provided to these
persons in prior fiscal years....................................................................................................................................
$18,232,293
4000-1400 For
the purposes of providing MassHealth benefits to persons with a diagnosis of
human immunodeficiency virus with incomes up to 200 per cent of the federal
poverty level; provided, that funds may be expended from this item for health
care services provided to these persons in prior fiscal years................................... $13,047,887
4000-1405 For
the operation of a program of preventive and primary care for chronically
unemployed persons who are not receiving unemployment insurance benefits and who
are not eligible for medical assistance but who are determined by the executive
office of health and human services to be long-term unemployed; provided, that
such persons shall meet the eligibility requirements established under the
MassHealth program as established
in section 9A of chapter 118E of the General Laws; provided further, that
persons eligible under subsection (7) of section 16D of chapter 118E shall be
also eligible to receive benefits under this item; provided further, that the
income of such persons shall not exceed 100 per cent of the federal poverty
level; provided further, that said eligibility requirements shall not exclude
from eligibility persons who are employed intermittently or on a non-regular
basis; provided further, that the provision of care to such persons under this
program may, taking into account capacity, continuity of care, and geographic
considerations, be restricted to certain providers; and provided further, that
funds may be expended from this item for health care services provided to
recipients in prior fiscal years................
$306,041,312
4000-1420 For
the purposes of making payment to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services in compliance with Title XIX of the Social Security Act, as amended by
the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003................................................................................................................................
$238,900,000
Division
of Health Care Finance and Policy.
4100-0060 For
the operation of the division and the administration of the uncompensated care
pool established pursuant to chapter 118G of the General Laws; provided, that
notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the assessment to
acute hospitals authorized pursuant to section 5 of said chapter 118G for the
estimated expenses of the division shall include in fiscal year 2007, the
estimated expenses, including indirect costs, of the division and shall be equal
to the amount appropriated in this item less amounts projected to be collected
in fiscal year 2007 from: (1) filing fees; (2) fees and charges generated by the
division’s publication or dissemination of reports and information; and (3)
federal financial participation received as reimbursement for the division’s
administrative costs; provided further, that the assessed amount shall not be
less than 65 per cent of the division’s expenses as specified in this item;
provided further, that the division shall promulgate regulations requiring all
hospitals receiving payments from the uncompensated care pool to report to the
division the following utilization information: the number of inpatient
admissions and outpatient visits by age category, income category, diagnostic
category and average charge per admission; provided further, that the division
shall submit quarterly to the house and senate committees on ways and means a
summary report compiling said data; provided further, that the division, in
consultation with the executive office of health and human services, shall not
promulgate any increase in medicaid provider rates without taking all measures
possible under Title XIX of the Social Security Act or any successor federal
statute to ensure that rates of payment to providers do not exceed such rates as
are necessary to meet only those costs incurred by efficiently and economically
operated providers in order to provide services of adequate quality; provided
further, that the division shall meet the reporting requirements of section 25
of chapter 203 of the acts of 1996; provided further, that funds may be expended
for the purposes of a survey and study of the uninsured and underinsured in the
commonwealth, including the health insurance needs of the residents of the
commonwealth; provided further, that said study shall examine the overall impact
of programs administered by the executive office of health and human services on
the uninsured, the underinsured, and the role of employers in assisting their
employees in affording health insurance pursuant to section 23 of chapter 118G
of the General Laws; provided further, that the division shall publish annual
reports on the financial condition of hospitals and other health care providers
through the Health Benchmarks project website, in collaboration with the
executive office of health and human services, the office of the attorney
general, and the University of Massachusetts; provided further, that the
division shall submit to the house and senate committees on ways and means not
later than December 6, 2006 a report detailing utilization of the uncompensated
care pool; provided further, that the report shall include: (1) the number of
persons in the commonwealth whose medical expenses were billed to the pool in
fiscal year 2006; (2) the total dollar amount billed to the pool in fiscal year
2006; (3) the demographics of the population using the pool, and; (4) the types
of services paid for out of the pool funds in fiscal year 2006; provided
further, that the division shall include in the report an analysis on hospitals’
responsiveness to enrolling eligible individuals into the MassHealth program
upon the date of service rather than charging said individuals to the
uncompensated care pool; provided further, that the division shall include in
the report possible disincentives the state could provide to hospitals to
discourage such behavior; provided further, that notwithstanding any general or
special law or rule or regulation to the contrary, the division shall not allow
any exceptions to the usual and customary charge defining rule as defined in
114.3 CMR 31.02, for the purposes of drug cost reimbursement to eligible
pharmacy providers for publicly aided and industrial accident patients; provided
further, that the division may change the pricing standard used by said division
when determining the rate of payment to pharmacy providers for prescribed drugs
for publicly-aided or industrial accident patients if such a change would
financially benefit the commonwealth; provided further, that notwithstanding any
general or special law to the contrary said division shall maintain the rate
paid for the dispensing fees to retail pharmacies for prescribed drugs to
publicly aided or industrial accident patients at $3 in fiscal year 2007; and provided further, that said division
shall not use any funds appropriated from the health care quality improvement
trust fund for operating costs, including rent and utilities........................................................................................................
$12,836,110
Office on Disabilities
4110-0001 For
the office of the commissioner; provided, that the commissioner may transfer
funds between items 4110-0001, 4110-1000, 4110-1010, 4110-1020, 4110-2000,
4110-2001, 4110-3010 and 4110-4000; provided further, that the amount
transferred from any of the items stated in this item shall not exceed 5 per
cent of the total amount appropriated for that item; provided further, that 30
days before any such transfer, the commissioner shall submit an allocation plan
detailing the distribution of the funds to be transferred to the house and
senate committees on ways and means; and provided further, that amounts
appropriated to the commission in fiscal year 2007 that extend or expand
services beyond the level of services provided in fiscal year 2006 shall not
annualize above those amounts in fiscal year 2008 .............................................................................................................................
$1,132,494
4110-1000 For
the community services program; provided, that not less than $350,000 shall be
expended from this item for the deaf-blind community access network; provided
further, that not less than $500,000 shall be expended for the talking
information center; provided further, that not less than $10,000 shall be
expended for the Audible Local Ledger of Falmouth; and provided further, that
the Massachusetts commission for the blind shall work in collaboration with the
Massachusetts commission for the deaf and hard of hearing to provide assistance
and services to the deaf-blind community through the deaf-blind community access
network..........................................
$3,967,118
4110-1010 For
aid to the adult blind; provided, that funds may be expended from this item for
burial expenses incurred in the prior fiscal year........................................................................................................................................
$8,351,643
4110-1020 For
eligibility determination for the medical assistance program for the blind;
provided, that the commission shall work with the executive office of health and
human services, the department of mental retardation and other state agencies to
maximize federal reimbursement for clients so determined through this item
including, but not limited to, reimbursement for home and community-based waiver
clients...............................................
$324,995
4110-2000 For
the turning 22 program of the commission; provided, that the commission shall
work in conjunction with the department of mental retardation to secure the
maximum amount of federal reimbursements available for the care of turning 22
clients; and provided further, that the commission shall work in conjunction
with the department of mental retardation to secure similar rates for contracted
residential services ...................
$9,512,267
4110-3010 For a
program of vocational rehabilitation for the blind in cooperation with the
federal government; provided, that no funds from the federal vocational
rehabilitation grants or state appropriation shall be deducted for pensions,
group health and life insurance, or any other such indirect cost of federally
reimbursed state employees; and provided further, that $154,000 shall be
expended on the Carroll Center for the Blind..................
$2,815,326
4110-4000 For
the administration of the Ferguson Industries for the Blind; provided, that
retired workshop employees shall receive grants equal to 3/4 of the salaries of
current workshop employees; and provided further, that any funds received for
goods and services purchased by private and public sector entities at Ferguson
Industries shall be remitted to the General Fund..................................................................................................................................
$1,895,410
4120-1000 For
the operation of the commission; provided, that the commissioner may transfer
funds between items 4120-1000, 4120-2000, 4120-3000, 4120-4000, 4120-4001,
4120-4010, 4120-5000, and 4120-6000; provided further, that the amount
transferred from any of the items stated in this item shall not exceed 5 per
cent of the total amount appropriated for that item; provided further, that 30
days before any such transfer, the commissioner shall submit an allocation plan
to the house and senate committees on ways and means detailing the distribution
of the funds to be transferred; provided further, that amounts appropriated to
the commission that extend or expand services beyond the level of services
provided in fiscal year 2006 shall not annualize above those amounts in fiscal
year 2008; provided further, that the commissioner shall report quarterly to the
house and senate committees on ways and means and the secretary of
administration and finance on the number of clients served and the amount
expended on each type of service; provided further, that upon the written
request of the commissioner of revenue, the commission shall provide lists of
individual clients to whom or on behalf of whom payments have been made for the
purpose of verifying eligibility and detecting and preventing fraud, error and
abuse in the programs administered by the commission; and provided further, that
the lists shall include client names and social security numbers and payee names
and other identification, if different from a client’s.....................................................................................
$579,543
4120-2000 For
vocational rehabilitation services operated in cooperation with the federal
government; provided, that no funds from the federal vocational rehabilitation
grant or state appropriation shall be deducted for pensions, group health and
life insurance and any other such indirect cost of the federally-reimbursed
state employees; and provided further, that the commissioner, in making
referrals to service providers, shall take into account the client’s place of
residence and the geographic proximity of the nearest provider to the
residence..............................
$7,526,911
4120-3000 For
employment assistance services; provided, that vocational evaluation and
employment services for severely disabled adults may, subject to appropriation,
be provided; and provided further, that not less than $200,000 shall be expended
for waitlist reduction for the community based employment program............. $8,255,480
4120-4000 For
independent living assistance service; provided, that not less than $949,295
shall be expended for assistive technology devices and training for individuals
with severe disabilities; provided further, that $3,840,000 shall be expended
for the independent living centers contracted with the commission; and provided
further, that not less than $200,000 shall be expended for the SHARE Foundation
at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth $
9,997,486
4120-4001 For
the housing registry for the disabled ...........................................................................................
$83,754
4120-4010 For
services to clients of the department who turn 22 years of age; provided, that
the amount appropriated in this item shall not annualize to more than $1,412,500
in state fiscal year 2008..................................
$749,145
4120-5000 For
homemaking services................................................................................................................
$5,519,355
4120-5050 The
Massachusetts rehabilitation commission may expend not more than $330,000 in revenues for
expanded independent living and employment services from federal reimbursements
received for services provided by the commission; provided, that for the purpose
of accommodating discrepancies between the receipt of retained revenue and
related expenditures, the department may incur expenses and the comptroller may
certify for payments amounts not to exceed the lower of this authorization or
the most recent revenue estimate reported in the state accounting system.................................................................................................................................................
$330,000
4120-6000 For
head injured services; provided, that the commission shall work with the
executive office of health and human services to maximize federal reimbursement
for clients receiving head injured services; provided further, that the
commission shall expend funds on a 24-hour basis for persons with severe head
injuries in western Massachusetts; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for the
Cape Cod head injury program; and
provided further, that not less than $75,000 shall be expended on the Keeping
Every Youth Safe program at the Massachusetts Brain Injury Association..............................................................................................................
$8,971,110
4125-0100 For
the operation of and services provided by the
4125-0101 For
the Massachusetts commission for the deaf and hard of hearing; provided, that
the commission may expend not more
than $175,000 in revenues from charges received on behalf of interpreter
services and monies received from private grants, bequests, gifts or
contributions; and provided further, that for the purpose of accommodating
discrepancies between the receipt of retained revenues and related expenditures,
the commission may incur expenses and the comptroller may certify for payment
amounts not to exceed the lower of this authorization or the most recent revenue
estimate as reported in the state accounting system...................................................
$175,000
Soldiers’
4180-0100 For
the maintenance and operation of the Soldiers’
4180-0200 The
Soldier’s
4180-1100 The
Soldiers’
Soldiers’
4190-0100 For
the maintenance and operation of the Soldiers’
4190-0102 The
Soldiers’
4190-0200 The
Soldier’s
4190-1100 The
Soldiers’
OFFICE OF CHILDREN, YOUTH
Department
of Youth Services.
4200-0010 For
the administration of the department of youth services; provided, that the
department shall continue to collaborate with the department of education in
order to align curriculum at the department of youth services with the statewide
curriculum frameworks and to ease the reintegration of youth from facilities at
the department of youth services into regular public school settings; provided
further, that the department shall continue to execute phase 2 of its education
funding initiative; provided further, that the commissioner of youth services,
in conjunction with the department of education, shall submit a report on
progress made during phase 2, and projected needs for phase 3 in fiscal year
2008, to the house and senate committees on ways and means by
4200-0100 For
supervision, counseling and other community-based services provided to committed
youths in nonresidential care programs of the department; provided, that not
less than $300,000 shall be expended to provide career services to youth in the
department’s care; provided further, that not less than $400,000 shall be
expended for the Boston juvenile re-entry program; provided further, that the
commissioner may transfer up to 7 per cent of the amount appropriated in this
item to items 4200-0200 and 4200-0300; and provided further, that 30 days before
any such transfer is made, the commissioner shall file with the secretary of
administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means
a plan showing the amounts to be transferred and the reason for the proposed
transfer........................................................................................................................................................
$23,441,647
4200-0200 For
pretrial detention programs, including purchase-of-service and state-operated
programs; provided, that the commissioner may transfer up to 7 per cent of the
amount appropriated herein to items 4200-0100 and 4200-0300; and provided
further, that 30 days before any transfer is made, the commissioner shall file
with the secretary of administration and finance and the house and senate
committees on ways and means a plan showing the amounts to be transferred and
the reason for the proposed transfer........................................................
$19,672,603
4200-0300 For
secure facilities, including purchase-of-service and state-operated programs
incidental to the operations of the facilities; provided, that funds shall be
expended for programs to address the needs of the female population; provided
further, that funds shall be expended to address suicide prevention including,
but not limited to, increased clinical capacity, increased clinical staff for
risk assessment at intake, improved medication administration, enhanced
psychiatric coverage at facilities, and the assurance of a 24-hour area-based
on-call staff; provided further, that not less than $1,250,000 shall be expended
for the homeward bound program in the town of Brewster; provided further, that not less than
$600,000 shall be expended on vocational training in order to reduce recidivism;
provided further, that an amount not to exceed $60,000 may be expended for
reimbursements to providers for services rendered in prior fiscal years;
provided further, that the commissioner may transfer up to 5 per cent of the
amount appropriated in this item to items 4200-0100 and 4200-0200; and provided
further, that 30 days before any such transfer is made, the commissioner shall
file with the secretary of administration and finance and the house and senate
committees on ways and means a plan showing the amounts to be transferred and
the reason for the proposed transfer......................................................................................................................................................
$105,423,021
4200-0500 For
the department of youth services’ education system; provided, that not less than
$2,550,000 shall be expended to address the salaries of teachers....................................................................................................
$3,300,000
Department
of Transitional Assistance.
4400-1000 For
the central administration of the department, including the development and
maintenance of automated data processing systems and services in support of
department operations, and for the administration of department programs in
local transitional assistance offices, including the expenses of operating a
food stamp program; provided, that during fiscal year 2007 the department shall
maintain 2 transitional assistance offices in the city of Springfield; provided
further, that all costs associated with verifying disability for all programs of
the department shall be paid from this item; provided further, that the
department shall submit on a monthly basis to the house and senate committees on
ways and means and the secretary of administration and finance a status report
on program expenditures, savings and revenues, error rate measurements, and
public assistance caseloads and benefits; provided further, that the department shall
collect all out-of-court settlement restitution payments; provided further, that
the restitution payments shall include, but not be limited to, installment and
lump sum payments; provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special
law to the contrary, unless otherwise expressly provided, federal reimbursements
received for the purposes of the department, including reimbursements for
administrative, fringe and overhead costs, for the current fiscal year and prior
fiscal years, shall be credited to the General Fund; provided further, that
under 21 U.S.C. section 862a(d)(1), the department shall exempt individuals from
the eligibility restrictions of 21 U.S.C. section 862a, except that individuals
incarcerated for a conviction which would otherwise be disqualifying under 21
U.S.C. section 862a(a) shall not be eligible for cash assistance funded through
item 4403-2000 during the first 12 months after release from a correctional
institution unless the individual qualifies for an exemption under subsection
(e) of section 110 of chapter 5 of the acts of 1995 or a domestic violence
waiver; provided further, that an application for assistance under chapter 118
of the General Laws shall be deemed an application for assistance under chapter
118E of the General Laws; provided further, that if assistance under said
chapter 118 is denied, the application shall be transmitted by the department to
the executive office of health and human services for a determination of
eligibility under said chapter 118E; provided further, that the department
shall, to the extent feasible within the appropriation provided, provide for
extended office hours; provided further, that the department shall accomplish
the staffing of these extended office hours to the maximum extent possible
through the use of flex-time that will allow workers to modify their working
hours to accommodate their specific personal and family needs; provided further,
that no funds may be expended from this item for costs related to the homeless
management information system; provided further, that the department shall, to
the extent feasible within the appropriation provided, continue and expand the
program of placing workers at community and human service organizations for the
purposes of facilitating food stamp applications and redeterminations; and
provided further, that the department may allocate funds, not to exceed
$2,500,000 from this item to item 4400-1100 for the cost of the department’s
caseworkers..........................................................................................................
$65,820,503
4400-1001 For
programs to increase the commonwealth’s food stamp participation rate; provided,
that $1,500,000 shall be expended for a contract with Project Bread-The Walk for
Hunger, Inc., which shall be solely responsible for administering a
comprehensive, community-based program to alleviate and prevent hunger and to
expand participation in federal nutrition programs; provided further, that
Project Bread shall focus on communities in Massachusetts with the highest rates
of hunger as defined by the United States Census Bureau; provided further, that
Project Bread shall develop a strategic plan to alleviate hunger; provided
further, that Project Bread shall support research relative to the prevention
and effect of hunger; provided further, that Project Bread shall file a report
with the clerk of the house of representatives, the clerk of the senate, the
president of the senate, the speaker of the house, the chairs of the joint
committee on education, the chairs of the joint committee on children and
families, the chairs of the joint committee on public health and the chairs of
the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than
4400-1025 For
domestic violence specialists at local area offices..................................................................
$653,866
4400-1079 For
the operation of the homeless management information system; provided, that
during fiscal year 2007 the department shall submit quarterly to the house and senate
committees on ways and means a status report detailing the specific
implementation of the system, the number of shelters participating by month, the
types and descriptions of information reports able to be generated, and any
other information that the department determines to be necessary in evaluating
the full and complete implementation of the system; and provided further, that
the report shall also detail all expenditures by object code......................................................................................
$1,000,000
4400-1100 For
the payroll of the department’s caseworkers; provided, that only employees of
bargaining unit eight shall be paid from this item; provided further, that not
less than $1,000,000 shall be expended to hire additional non-public assistance
caseworkers to process food stamp applications; and provided further, that the
department may allocate funds, not to exceed $1,000,000 from this item to item
4400-1000 for the administrative costs of the department of transitional
assistance................................................................................................................
$56,693,172
4401-1000 For a
program to provide employment and training services for recipients of benefits
provided under the program of transitional aid to families with dependent
children; provided, that certain parents who have not yet reached the age of 18,
including those who are ineligible for transitional aid to families with
dependent children and who would qualify for benefits under chapter 118 of the
General Laws but for the deeming of the grandparents’ income, shall be allowed
to participate in the employment services program; provided further, that funds
from this item may be expended on former recipients of the program for up to 1
year after termination of their benefits due to employment or subsection (f) of
section 110 of chapter 5 of the acts of 1995; provided further, that funds from
this item shall be expended for the purposes of the young parents program,
transportation costs, pre-employment skills training and education programs, and
structured subsidized employment services; provided further, that the department
of transitional assistance may use funds from this item and shall collaborate
with the department of workforce development to access funding through Title I
of the federal Workforce Investment Act to ensure that sufficient resources are
available to provide substantive, pre-employment skills training, including
training that integrates basic education and English as a second language
instruction, to recipients of transitional aid to families with dependent
children who are in need of such services; provided further, that funds from
this item may also be expended for re-employment services, job search
assistance, vocational training services, job retention services, adult basic
education, graduate equivalency degree courses, English as a second language
courses and training programs for persons with limited English proficiency, and
emergency work-related expenses for recipients, including emergency
transportation costs; provided further, that the department shall inform all
recipients and applicants of the full range of programs and of skills training
programs funded by Title I of the federal Workforce Investment Act accessible
through the one-stop career centers and adult education programs funded by the
department of education available under this program; provided further, that
funds may be allocated from this item to other agencies for the purposes of this
program; provided further, that within 90 days of a recipient, without a high
school degree or a graduate equivalency degree or proficiency in English who is
subject to said subsection (f) of said section 110 of said chapter 5, becoming
eligible for benefits, the department may offer to the recipient a skills
assessment to identify barriers to employment; and provided further, that all of
this item is subject to appropriation and, in the event of a deficiency, nothing
in this item shall give rise to or shall be construed as giving rise to any
enforceable right or entitlement to services in excess of the amounts
appropriated by this item....................
$27,087,733
4401-1100 The
department of transitional assistance may expend not more than $5,000,000 from
revenue received from the United States Department of Agriculture for food stamp
outreach and employment and training programs and any enhanced funding or
bonuses; provided, that the department may expend such revenue for employment
and training services provided to recipients of transitional aid to families
with dependent children ................
$5,000,000
4403-2000 For a
program of transitional aid to families with dependent children; provided, that
notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, benefits under the
program of transitional aid to families with dependent children shall be paid
only to citizens of the United States and to non-citizens for whom federal funds
may be used to provide benefits; provided further, that notwithstanding any
general or special law or this act to the contrary, no benefits under this item
shall be made available to illegal or undocumented aliens; provided further,
that the need standard shall be equal to the standard in effect in fiscal
year 2006; provided further, that
the payment standard shall be equal to the need standard; provided further, that
the payment standard for families who do not qualify for an exempt category of
assistance under the provisions of subsection (e) of section 110 of chapter 5 of
the acts of 1995 shall be 2¾ per cent below the otherwise applicable payment
standard, in fiscal year 2007, pursuant to the state plan required under the
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996;
provided further, that the department shall notify all teen parents receiving
benefits from the program of the requirements found in clause (2) of subsection
(i) of said section 110 of said chapter 5; provided further, that a $40 per
month rent allowance shall be paid to all households incurring a rent or
mortgage expense and not residing in public housing or subsidized housing;
provided further, that a nonrecurring children’s clothing allowance in the
amount of $150 shall be provided to each child eligible under this program in
September, 2006; provided further, that the children’s clothing allowance shall
be included in the standard of need for the month of September, 2006; provided
further, that benefits under this program shall not be available to those
families where a child has been removed from the household pursuant to a court
order after a care and protection hearing under chapter 119 of the General Laws,
nor to adult recipients otherwise eligible for transitional aid to families with
dependent children but for the temporary removal of the dependent child or
children from the home by the department of social services in accordance with
department procedures; provided further, that notwithstanding section 2 of
chapter 118 of the General Laws, or any other general or special law to the
contrary, the department shall render aid to pregnant women with no other
eligible dependent children only if it has been medically verified that the
child is expected to be born within the month such payments are to be made or
within the 3 month period after such month of payment, and who, if such child
had been born and was living with her in the month of payment would be
categorically and financially eligible for transitional aid to families with
dependent children benefits; provided further, that certain families that suffer
a reduction in benefits due to a loss of earned income and participation in
retrospective budgeting may receive a supplemental benefit to compensate them
for such loss; provided further, that no funds from this item shall be expended
by the department for child care or transportation services for the employment
and training program; provided further, that no funds from this item shall be
expended by the department for family reunification benefits or informal child
care; provided further, that the department shall provide oral and written
notification to all recipients of their child care benefits on a semi-annual
basis; provided further, that the notification shall include the full range of
child care options available, including center-based child care, family-based
child care, and in-home relative child care; provided further, that the
notification shall detail available child care benefits for current and former
recipients, including employment and training benefits, transitional benefits
and post-transitional benefits; provided further, that the department shall work
with the department of early education and care to ensure that both recipients
currently receiving benefits and former recipients during the 1 year period
after termination of benefits are provided written and verbal information about
child care services; provided further, that the notice shall further advise
recipients of the availability of food stamps benefits; provided further, that
in promulgating, amending or rescinding its regulations with respect to
eligibility for, or levels of benefits under the program, the department shall
take into account the amounts available to it for expenditure by this item so as
not to exceed the appropriation; provided further, that notwithstanding any
general or special law to the contrary, 60 days before promulgating any
eligibility or benefit changes, the commissioner shall file with the house and
senate committees on ways and means and with the clerks of the senate and house
of representatives a determination by the secretary of health and human services
that available appropriations for the program will be insufficient to meet
projected expenses and a report setting forth the text of and basis for such
proposed changes; and provided further, that not less than $418,074 shall be
expended for the purposes of the operation of the Transportation Assistance
Program operated by the Traveler’s Aid Society $296,255,455
4403-2001 For
the Lift Transportation Program operated by the Traveler’s Aid Society of
Boston.........
$150,000
4403-2119 For
the provision of structured settings as provided in subsection (i) of section
110 of chapter 5 of the acts of 1995 for parents under the age of 20 who are
receiving benefits under the transitional aid to families with dependent
children program...........................................................................................................................................
$7,045,866
4403-2120 For
certain expenses of the emergency assistance program as follows: (i) contracted
family shelters; (ii) transitional housing programs; (iii) programs to reduce
homelessness in Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket counties; (iv) residential
education centers for single mothers with children; (v) intake centers; and (vi)
voucher shelters; provided, that eligibility shall be limited to families with
income at or below 130 per cent of the federal poverty level; provided, however,
that any family whose income exceeds 130 per cent of the federal poverty level
while the family is receiving assistance funded by this item shall not become
ineligible for assistance due to exceeding the income limit for a period of 6
months from the date that the 130 per cent level was exceeded; provided further,
that the department shall establish reasonable requirements for such families to
escrow some or all of the portion of their income which exceeds 130 per cent of
the federal poverty level; provided further, that any such escrowed funds shall
be exempt from otherwise applicable asset limits; provided further that the
family shall be allowed to withdraw the amount placed in escrow upon transition
to permanent housing or losing eligibility for shelter services; provided
further, that benefits under this item shall be provided only to residents who
are citizens of the United States or aliens lawfully admitted for permanent
residence or otherwise permanently residing under color of law in the United
States; provided further, that the department shall take all steps necessary to
enforce regulations to prevent abuse in the emergency assistance program;
provided further, that no emergency assistance expenditures shall be paid from
this item unless explicitly authorized; provided further, that eligible
households shall be placed in shelters as close as possible to their home
community unless a household requests otherwise; provided further, that if the
closest available placement is not within 20 miles of the household’s home
community, the household shall be transferred to an appropriate shelter within
20 miles of its home community at the earliest possible date unless the
household requests otherwise; provided further, that eligibility for shelter by
an otherwise eligible family shall not be impaired by prior receipt of any
non-shelter benefit; provided further, that the department shall make every
effort to insure that children receiving services from this item shall continue
attending school in the community in which they lived prior to receiving
services funded from this item; provided further, that notwithstanding any other
general or special law to the contrary, the department shall immediately provide
shelter for up to 30 days to families who appear to be eligible for such shelter
based on statements provided by the family and any other information in the
possession of the department but who need additional time to obtain any
third-party verifications reasonably required by the department; provided
further, that shelter benefits received under the preceding proviso shall not
render a family ineligible under any regulation providing that a family who
previously received shelter is ineligible for shelter benefits for a period of
12 months; provided further, that families receiving such shelter benefits who
are found not to be eligible for continuing shelter benefits shall be eligible
for aid pending a timely appeal pursuant to section 16 of chapter 18 of the
General Laws; provided further, that the department shall not impose
unreasonable requirements for third-party verification and shall accept
verifications from the family whenever reasonable; provided further, that in
promulgating, amending or rescinding regulations with respect to eligibility or
benefits under this program, the department shall take into account the amounts
available to it for expenditure in this item so as not to exceed the amount
appropriated in this item; provided further, that notwithstanding any general or
special law to the contrary, 60 days before promulgating any such eligibility or
benefit changes, the commissioner shall file with the house and senate
committees on ways and means and with the clerks of the house of representatives
and the senate a determination by the secretary of health and human services
that available appropriations for the program will be insufficient to meet
projected expenses and a report setting forth such proposed changes; provided
further, that all of this item shall be subject to appropriation and, in the
event of a deficiency, nothing in this item shall give rise to or shall be
construed as giving rise to any enforceable right or entitlement to services in
excess of the amounts appropriated by this item; provided further, that nothing
in the preceding proviso shall authorize the department to alter eligibility
criteria or benefit levels; provided further, that the department shall report
quarterly to the house and senate committees on ways and means on the
unduplicated count of families who apply for emergency assistance funded family
shelter during the fiscal year; provided further, that the report shall include
the total number of applications received, the number of families approved for
shelter, the number of families denied shelter along with reasons for denials,
the number of families who are approved for shelter benefits within 12 months of
an initial denial, the home community of families receiving shelter, the number
of families receiving shelter within each home community, the number of
available shelter slots within each home community, the income level of families
receiving shelter, the number of families receiving shelter who had previously
accessed state-funded programs to reduce homelessness and the programs that had
been accessed, the composition of families receiving shelter, the reason that
the household is seeking emergency family shelter, the reasons that families
exit shelters, including reasons for voluntary departure and termination,
exiting families’ housing plans, including type of housing arrangements, subsidy
status, monthly rent, and gross monthly income, and any other information that
the department determines to be necessary in evaluating the operation of the
emergency assistance family shelters program; provided further, that the report
shall also include information, by type of shelter, on average length of stay,
average cost per household served, average number of shelter slots not used
either as the result of no placement being made or of a placed family not making
use of shelter, and an analysis of this information, including an analysis of
causes relating to any significant differences in the data for each type of
shelter; provided further, that the report shall also include a status report on
the outcomes of department-funded homelessness prevention initiatives or pilot
programs, providing information on the nature and total cost of each such
initiative, the number of families served by each such initiative, the average
cost per family of each such initiative, the affordability and stability of
housing or alternative shelter placements for prevention program recipients,
including type of housing arrangement, subsidy status, monthly rent, and gross
monthly income, and any other information that the department determines to be
necessary in evaluating the operation of state-funded homeless prevention
programs; provided further, that no funds may be expended for costs related to
the homeless management information system; and provided further, that not less
than $179,381 shall be obligated for capital projects and related facility
upgrades at the Crossroads Family Shelter in East Boston........................................................................................................................................................
$73,650,000
4405-2000 For
the state supplement to the supplemental security income program for the aged
and disabled, including a program for emergency needs for supplemental security
income recipients; provided, that the expenses of special grants recipients
residing in rest homes, as provided in section 7A of chapter 118A of the General
Laws, may be paid from this item; provided further, that the department, in
collaboration with the executive office of health and human services, may fund
an optional supplemental living arrangement category under the supplemental
security income program that makes payments to persons living in assisted living
residences certified under chapter 19D of the General Laws who meet the income
and clinical eligibility criteria established by the department and the office;
provided further, that the optional category of payments shall only be
administered in conjunction with the Medicaid group adult foster care benefit;
provided further, that reimbursements to providers for services rendered in
prior fiscal years may be expended from this item; and provided further, that
the department shall expend not less than $1,000,000 for rate increases to rest
homes in coordination with the division of health care finance and policy......................................................................................................................................................
$210,887,077
4406-3000 For
the homelessness program to assist individuals who are homeless or in danger of
becoming homeless, including assistance to organizations which provide food,
shelter, housing search and limited related services to the homeless and
indigent; provided further, that no organization providing services to the
homeless shall receive less than an average per bed/per night rate of $12.92;
provided further, that the department may allocate funds to other agencies for
the purposes of this program; provided further, that organizations which
received funding in fiscal year 2006 shall receive at least the same amount in
fiscal year 2007; provided further, that no funds may be expended for costs
associated with the homeless management information system; and provided
further, that funds appropriated to this item from item 1599-6901 shall be
calculated and distributed separately from any additional rate increase
provided........................................................................................................................................................
$35,319,061
4406-3010 For
the
4408-1000 For a
program of cash assistance to certain residents of the commonwealth, entitled
emergency aid to the elderly, disabled and children found by the department to
be eligible for such aid under chapter 117A of the General Laws and regulations
promulgated by the department and subject to the limitations of appropriation
therefore; provided, that benefits under this item shall only be provided to
residents who are citizens of the United States or qualified aliens or
non-citizens otherwise permanently residing in the United States under color of
law and shall not be provided to illegal or undocumented aliens; provided
further, that the payment standard shall equal the payment standard in effect
under the general relief program in fiscal year 1991; provided further, that the
department may provide benefits to persons age 65 or older who have applied for
benefits under chapter 118A of the General Laws, to persons suffering from a
medically determinable impairment or combination of impairments which is
expected to last for a period as determined by department regulations and which
substantially reduces or eliminates the individual’s capacity to support himself
and which has been verified by a competent authority, to certain persons caring
for a disabled person, to otherwise eligible participants in the vocational
rehabilitation program of the Massachusetts rehabilitation commission and to
dependent children who are ineligible for benefits under both chapter 118 of the
General Laws and the separate program created by section 210 of chapter 43 of
the acts of 1997 and parents or other caretakers of dependent children who are
ineligible under chapter 118 and under the separate program; provided further,
that no ex-offender, person over age 45 without a prior work history or person
in a residential treatment facility shall be eligible for benefits under this
program unless the person otherwise meets the eligibility criteria described in
this item and defined by regulations of the department; provided further, that
no person incarcerated in a correctional institution shall be eligible for
benefits under the program; provided further, that no funds shall be expended
from this item for the payment of expenses associated with any medical review
team, other disability screening process or costs associated with verifying
disability for this program; provided further, that the department shall adopt
emergency regulations under chapter 30A of the General Laws to implement the
changes to this program required by this item promptly and within the
appropriation; provided further, that in initially implementing the program for
this fiscal year, the department shall include all eligibility categories
permitted in this item at the payment standard in effect for the former general
relief program in fiscal year 1991; provided further, that in promulgating,
amending or rescinding its regulations with respect to eligibility or benefits,
including the payment standard, medical benefits and any other benefits under
this program, the department shall take into account the amounts available to it
for expenditure by this item so as not to exceed the amount appropriated in this
item; provided further, that the department may promulgate emergency regulations
under chapter 30A of the General Laws to implement these eligibility or benefit
changes or both; provided further, that nothing in this item shall be construed
as creating any right accruing to recipients of the former general relief
program; provided further, that reimbursements collected from the Social
Security Administration on behalf of former clients of the emergency aid to the
elderly, disabled and children program or unprocessed payments from the program
that are returned to the department shall be credited to the General Fund;
provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the
contrary, the funds made available in this item shall be the only funds
available for the program, and the department shall not spend funds for the
program in excess of the amount made available in this item; and provided
further, that, notwithstanding any general or special law this item to the
contrary, 60 days before implementing any eligibility or benefit changes, the
commissioner shall file with the clerks of the house of representatives and the
senate a determination by the secretary of health and human services that
available appropriations for the program will be insufficient to meet projected
expenses and a report setting forth the proposed changes $65,404,156
OFFICE OF HEALTH SERVICES.
Department
of Public Health.
4510-0099 The
department may expend not more than $6,000,000 in revenues collected from
licensing, inspections and records for costs associated with the administration
of the department............................................
$6,000,000
4510-0100 For
the operation of the department, the determination of need program, established
under section 25C of chapter 111 of the General Laws, the health statistics
program, including the operation of a cancer registry and occupational lung
disease registry, and the continuation of the cardiac surgery data collection
and validation program to collect and validate data from all hospitals in the
commonwealth that perform open heart surgery; provided, that the position of
assistant commissioner shall not be subject to chapter 31 of the General Laws;
and provided further, that no state or federal funding shall be used for
classroom based abstinence-only programming........ $17,051,539
4510-0106 For
the end of life care commission, established by section 480 of chapter 159 of
the acts of 2000; provided, that not more than $100,000 shall be expended from
revenues associated with grant and development activities
$100,000
4510-0110 For
community health center services; provided, that no funds shall be expended in
the AA object class for any personnel-related costs; provided further, that not
less than $200,000 shall be expended for the Cape Cod Free Clinic; provided
further, that not less than $150,000 shall be expended for the Duffy Health
Center; provided further, that $300,000 shall be expended for medical respite
services provided by the Boston health care for the homeless program established
pursuant to section 24J of chapter 111 of the General Laws; and provided
further, that the department shall submit a tentative allocation schedule of the
community health center grants to the house and senate committees on ways and
means not later than
4510-0150 For
the managed care program at community health centers known as CenterCare;
provided, that no funds shall be expended in the AA object class for any
personnel-related costs; provided further, that that $225,000 shall be expended
on a statewide program of technical assistance to community health centers to be
provided by a state primary care association qualified under section 330(f)(1)
of the United States Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C. section 254c(f)(1);
and provided further, that the department shall assist professional and
nonprofit agencies dedicated to the advancement of the scope and nature of
health care services delivered in communities by community health centers and to
pursue available federal technical assistance funding $2,654,974
4510-0600 For
an environmental and community health hazards program, including control of
radiation and nuclear hazards, consumer products protection, food and drugs,
lead poisoning prevention in accordance with chapter 482 of the acts of 1993,
lead-based paint inspections in day care facilities, inspection of radiological
facilities, licensing of x-ray technologists and the administration of the
division of environmental epidemiology and toxicology for the purposes of
chapter 470 of the acts of 1983, the “Right-to-Know” law; provided, that the
expenditures from this item for the fair packaging and labeling survey program
shall be contingent upon the prior approval of the proper federal authorities
for reimbursement of 100 per cent of the amounts so expended; provided further,
that $100,000 shall be expended for a renal disease program administered by the
National Kidney Foundation of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont for
nutritional supplements and early intervention services for those affected by
renal disease and those at risk of renal disease; provided further, that not less than
$100,000 shall be expended for the purposes of research and prevention
activities associated with Lyme Disease to be conducted by the Barnstable county
department of health and the environment; provided further, that not less than
$14,800 shall be allocated to the Franklin Regional Council of Governments for
costs associated with the regional public health program; provided further, that not less than
$81,000 shall be expended for the maintenance of a statewide lupus database; provided further, that $150,000 shall
be expended for the
4510-0615 The
department may expend not more than $150,000 from assessments collected under
section 5K of chapter 111 of the General Laws for services provided to monitor,
survey and inspect nuclear power reactors; provided, that the department may
expend not more than $1,374,195 from fees collected from licensing and
inspecting users of radioactive material within the commonwealth under licenses
presently issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; provided further, that
the revenues may be used for the costs of both programs, including the
compensation of employees; and provided further, that for the purpose of
accommodating discrepancies between the receipt of retained revenues and related
expenditures, the department may incur expenses and the comptroller may certify
for payment amounts not to exceed the lower of this authorization or the most
recent revenue estimate as reported in the state accounting system....................................................................................
$1,524,195
4510-0616 The
department may not expend more than $551,110 for a drug registration and
monitoring program from revenues collected from fees charged to registered
practitioners, including physicians, dentists, veterinarians, podiatrists and
optometrists, for controlled substance registration; provided, that funds may be
expended from this item for the costs of personnel; and provided further, that,
for the purpose of accommodating discrepancies between the receipt of retained
revenues and related expenditures, the department may incur expenses and the
comptroller may certify for payment amounts not to exceed the lower of this
authorization or the most recent revenue estimate as reported in the state
accounting system...................................................................................................................
$551,110
4510-0710 For the operation of the division of health care quality and the office of patient protection; provided, that the division shall be responsible for assuring the quality of patient care provided by the commonwealth