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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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SO MUCH OF THE message from
His Excellency the Governor
returning the General Appropriation Bill
for Fiscal Year 2008
(see House, No. 4141)
as relates to
Attachments A And B,
for ITEMS AND SECTIONS returned with
reDUCTIONS OR DISAPPROVALS
UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF
SECTION 5 OF ARTICLE LXIII
of the Amendments to the Constitution
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July 12, 2007.
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DEVAL L. PATRICK GOVERNOR
TIMOTHY P. MURRAY LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR |
Executive Department State House · Boston 02133 (617) 725-4000 |
July 12, 2007.
To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives:
Pursuant to Section 5 of Article 63 of the Amendments to the Constitution, I am today signing House 4141, “An Act Making Appropriations for the Fiscal Year 2008 for the Maintenance of the Departments, Boards, Commissions, Institutions and Certain Activities for the Commonwealth, for Interest, Sinking Fund and Serial Bond Requirements and for Certain Permanent Improvements.”
I am very proud to sign House 4141 into law. This budget is the product of true collaboration between the Legislature and our Administration, based on shared priorities and values and a shared commitment to building a better Massachusetts. Significantly, House 4141 holds spending to the smallest rate of growth in three years and is almost equal to that of our House 1 budget proposal for fiscal year 2008. The actual percentage rate of growth over last years’ budget is 4.42%. Within this framework, the budget contains numerous public investments and initiatives that will strengthen our economy, our community and our state government, including:
Laying a foundation for the next phase of education reform
o a $6.8 million increase in Kindergarten Expansion Grants compared to last year’s budget
o a $6.5 million increase in Extended Learning Time Grants, doubling funding for this program
o a $2.5 million increase for Universal Pre-Kindergarten Grants
o $3.75 million for a new Commonwealth Covenant Fund to help public college graduates working in the critical fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics pay off their student loans, and $4 million for the STEM grant program
Building a new partnership with our cities and towns
o a 5.8 percent total increase in Local Aid, including a $77 million off-budget increase for the School Building Authority
o a $220 million increase in Chapter 70 education aid
o a $3 million increase in payments to cities and towns in lieu of taxes for state-owned lands
o $23 million for water and sewer rate relief for MWRA communities
These investments complement separate legislative progress on parts of our proposed Municipal Partnership Act aimed at helping cities and towns control costs and otherwise take the pressure off residential property taxes.
Keeping our streets and neighborhoods safe
o $4 million to fund new police officers – which augments another $4 million for new police officers enacted in May, enabling more new officers to join the patrols in local communities
o $21.4 million for community policing initiatives
o a $2 million increase for job opportunities for at-risk youth
o $2 million for a new youth violence prevention program
Maintaining our commitment to the Commonwealth’s historic health reform law
o over $1.8 billion for health reform, including funding for new opportunities to secure quality, affordable health insurance through MassHealth and the Commonwealth Care program
o first-time line-item funding of $1.0 million for the Health Care Quality and Cost Council, so they can get to work on strategies to reduce system costs
o $3.5 million for health care outreach and enrollment grants, plus $200,000 to establish a Health Care Reform Outreach and Education unit in EOHHS
Restoring public health to a public priority
o a $12 million increase for the Universal Immunization Program, including funding to provide coverage for two new vaccines to prevent young people from contracting serious illness
o a $4.5 million increase for smoking prevention and cessation initiatives
o a $2.5 million increase for suicide prevention initiatives
Supporting job creation and economic growth
o $4 million for grants to help cities and towns streamline their permitting processes
o $3.5 million in consolidated funding for the Massachusetts Office of Business Development and the In-State Sales Force program, for a coordinated strategy to market Massachusetts
o $700,000 to support biotechnology commercialization at the Massachusetts Biotechnology Research Institute, and $250,000 for efforts to expand broadband access across the Commonwealth
o a $15 million increase for local housing authorities compared to last year’s budget
Making state government more efficient and effective
o Establishment of the State Retiree Benefits Trust Fund – funded from the balance of the Health Security Trust Fund at the end of fiscal year 2008 – to help make Massachusetts a pioneer in paying down its liability for health care costs for retired public employees
o A new line item to encourage state agencies to participate in e-commerce, resulting in improved on-line customer service and cost savings
o Consolidation of a number of public health screening and prevention programs, to facilitate improved coordination and a comprehensive strategy for disease prevention
o Restraint in the use of outside sections, recognizing that legislative changes not directly related to the budget itself are best advanced separately from the budget
House 4141 also includes an innovative approach to distributing any end-of-year fiscal year 2007 surplus – committing these funds to both the newly established Bay State Competitiveness Trust Fund for strategic public investments and our Commonwealth Stabilization Fund to augment state fiscal reserves. The funding deposited in the Bay State Competitiveness Trust Fund could be one mechanism for advancing our recent initiative to make Massachusetts a global leader in life sciences.
I am very pleased by the significant progress that this budget makes in strengthening our economy, our communities and our state government and laying a foundation for lasting change. At the same time, there are a few areas in which I wish to propose changes. Along these lines, I am using my line-item veto authority to reduce spending by $41,426,084, including $712,241 in federal grants. These vetoes encompass areas where House 4141 provided levels of funding that exceeded the needs of agencies or programs or duplicated initiatives. These vetoes also address earmarks that raised heightened concerns, in many cases because they were inconsistent with the mission of the program under which they were funded. While many of these earmarks are worthy and have programmatic merit, this inconsistency of mission and charge limits the ability of government to exercise effective oversight and guarantee the most efficient delivery of services. I remain committed to significantly reducing the use of earmarks, as I believe public funds are put to their best use when distributed through a competitive and transparent grant process or as part of a comprehensive strategy to achieve an agency’s mission. I look forward to working with the Legislature to find the right balance between providing appropriate flexibility to state agencies and respecting the Legislature’s important role in helping to establish our priorities.
Therefore:
• I am reducing appropriation amounts in items of section 2 and 2D of House 4141 enumerated in Attachment A of this message by the amount and for the reasons set forth in that Attachment;
• I am disapproving or striking wording in items of sections 2 and 2B of House 4141 also set forth in Attachment A, for the reasons set forth in that Attachment;
• I am disapproving those sections of House 4141 itemized in Attachment B of this message for the reasons set forth in that Attachment; and
• Pursuant to Article LVI, as amended by Article XC, Section 3 of the Amendments to the Constitution of the Commonwealth, I am returning sections 17, 30, 53 and 86 with recommendations for amendment. My reasons for doing so and the recommended amendments are set forth in separate letters dated today which are included with this message as Attachments C, D, E and F.
I approve the remainder of this Act.
Respectfully submitted,
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DEVAL L. PATRICK,
Governor
DISAPPROVALS AND REDUCTIONS.
The Governor’s actions are as follows:—
I disapprove the following items:
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in Section 2 |
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7003-0702 |
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7007-1200 |
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8000-0619 |
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in Section 2D |
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4513-9084 |
I disapprove Sections 34 and 73.
I reduce the following items in Section 2 to the following amounts:
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Section 2 |
Reduce By |
Reduce To |
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0322-0100 |
420,600 |
10,616,684 |
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0330-0300 |
10,000,000 |
124,412,460 |
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0330-3337 |
1,450,000 |
19,007,323 |
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2030-1000 |
292,478 |
10,659,472 |
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2820-0300 |
400,000 |
1,371,000 |
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4000-0700 |
1,500,000 |
1,682,246,704 |
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4200-0500 |
717,000 |
2,583,000 |
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7007-1000 |
537,500 |
8,462,500 |
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7061-9619 |
100,000 |
1 |
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7077-0023 |
325,000 |
5,000,000 |
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9110-1455 |
3,286,599 |
60,504,455 |
I reduce the following items in Section 2 to the following amounts, and disapprove the wording as indicated:
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Section 2 |
Reduce By |
Reduce To |
Wording Stricken |
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1201-0100 |
75,000 |
115,942,360 |
"; and provided further, that not less than $75,000 be granted to the town of Mansfield for the completion of a regional sewer study"
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2511-0100 |
110,000 |
4,832,183 |
"; provided further, that $50,000 shall be expended on the YouthGROW program; provided further, that not less than $10,000 shall be expended to the Plymouth Animal shelter"
and
"; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended for agricultural fair prizes and rehabilitation, including the expenses of the agricultural lands board"
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2800-0700 |
300,000 |
1,145,000 |
"; provided further, that not less than $75,000 shall be expended for repairs to Manns Pond Dam in Sharon"
and
"; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for the repairs of the dam in the town of Millbury; and provided further, that not less than $125,000 shall be expended for the dam on the Squannacook River known as the Squannacook Dam, and jointly owned by the towns of Groton and Shirley"
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2810-0100 |
550,000 |
22,755,308 |
"; provided further, that not less than $350,000 shall be expended to monitor and control water and wastewater systems in the town of Medfield; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for the Camp Marion Recreation Program; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for Nashawannuck Pond in Easthampton"
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2820-0100 |
710,000 |
28,238,582 |
"; provided further, that not less than $125,000 shall be expended for the athletic fields located on Robinson Street and Hancock Street in the town of Hanson"
and
"; provided further, that not less than $75,000 shall be expended for the Eugene Lovely field in Andover; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for park located in Suffolk County on parcel 2102442005"
and
"; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be provided for safety improvements by the ponds at Lake Street in the Town of Acushnet"
and
"; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be provided to the Lake Singletary Watershed Association for services related to water quality and conservation improvements"
and
"; provided further that not less than $75,000 shall be expended for the Library Park in the city of Woburn; provided further that not less than $50,000 shall be expended for public safety on the Deerfield and upper Connecticut River"
and
"; provided further, that not less than $60,000 shall be expended for the Martha’s Vineyard Commission; provided further, that not less than $25,000 shall be provided to the Veterans’ Memorial Park in Blackstone; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for the sole purpose of restoring, operating, maintaining and ongoing support of the department of conservation and recreation park rangers mounted unit in the Blue Hills Reservation, existing as of January 1, 2004, which shall be located, sited and operated from a stable and facilities in the Blue Hill Reservation; provided further, that not later than December 28, 2007, the department of conservation and recreation shall file with the house and senate committees on ways and means an annual report detailing the actual expenditures of funds; provided further, that any funds not so expended solely for this purpose shall be reimbursed to said department of conservation and recreation park rangers mounted unit from the funds allocated for the operation of the office of the secretary of the executive office of environmental affairs fiscal year 2007 budget allocation, retroactively; provided further, that the secretary of the executive office of environmental affairs is hereby directed to request and obtain the return of all animals, equipment, including: tack and trailers, and personnel of the department of conservation and recreation park rangers mounted unit within their control, custody and possession as of January 1, 2004; provided further, that should additional horses of a comparable or better quality as such horses in said mounted unit as of January 1, 2004 need to be obtained by gift or purchase, that said office of the secretary of the executive office of environmental affairs shall incur said costs; provided further, that the secretary of environmental affairs is hereby directed to commence an investigation and study relative to forming a public/private partnership to assist in the maintenance and care of the unit, including: but not limited to, fundraising, operating and maintaining the horses, stables and other facilities in connection with said department of conservation and recreation mounted ranger unit"
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4000-0600 |
2,000,000 |
2,051,753,985 |
"; provided further, that in fiscal year 2008, the division of health care finance and policy shall adjust rates for providers of adult day health by no less than $2,000,000 in the aggregate, which shall be above any previously authorized rate increase"
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4403-2120 |
300,000 |
82,821,534 |
"; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for a contract with the St. Francis Samaritan House in Taunton"
and
"; provided further, that not less than $200,000 shall be expended for Our Fathers House in Fitchburg"
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7004-0099 |
100,000 |
10,193,166 |
"; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for the Indian Orchard Main Street Partnership"
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7007-0900 |
2,860,000 |
25,371,965 |
"; provided further, that not less than $500,000 shall be expended on the open wide health pilot program in Hampden county"
and
"; provided further, that not less than $250,000 shall be expended for the establishment of a law enforcement technology fund in the Town of Franklin"
and
"; provided further, that not less than $250,000 shall be expended for the Medway Public Library"
and
"; provided further, that $200,000 be expended for senior mental health and wellness programs in the town of Tewksbury"
and
"; provided further, that not less than $175,000 shall be expended for the Springfield Business Improvement District (SBID) for the central business district area of the City of Springfield"
and
"; provided further, that not less than $150,000 shall be expended for a child safety grant in the Town of Hamilton"
and
"; provided further, that not less than $150,000 shall be expended for an environmental program in the Wachusett Regional School District"
and
"; provided further, that not less than $100,000 in appropriated funds shall be made available to the Fisher Street Bridge in the town of North Attleboro"
and
"; provided further, that $100,000 shall be expended for a public safety program in the town of Dudley"
and
"; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for the Kwong Kong Chinese School in Boston"
and
"; provided further, that not less than $75,000 be expended for the installation of street lights in the Forest Park area of Springfield; provided further, that not less than $75,000 shall be expended for patrols in Wompatuck state park in the town of Hingham"
and
"; provided further, that not less than $75,000 shall be expended for the Multicultural Alzheimer’s Services Project of Springfield"
and
"; provided further, that not less than $75,000 shall be expended for the Assabet River Wildlife Refuge in Sudbury"
and
"; provided further that not less than $70,000 be expended for improvements to the Jordan Pond area and the creation of a walking trail around Jordan Pond in the Town of Shrewsbury"
and
"; provided further, that not less that $50,000 shall be expended for the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute"
and
"; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended for a public safety grant in Hanover, Norwell, and Rockland; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended to continue and expand the triage counseling services in the Needham public schools"
and
"; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended for a youth sports grant to Reading memorial high school in the town of Reading"
and
"; provided further, that $50,000 shall be expended for youth sports program in Reading"
and
"; provided further, that not less than $40,000 shall be expended for a crime prevention program in the town of North Attleboro"
and
"; provided further, that not less than $40,000 funds shall be expended for a school safety grant in the town of North Attleboro; provided further, that $35,000 shall be expended for a public safety grant in the town of Berlin; provided further, that not less than $35,000 shall be expended for engineering studies and plans at the landfill in the town of Seekonk"
and
"; provided further, that not less than $30,000 be expended for the implementation of the Fitchburg Regional Crime Recording Project"
and
"; provided further, that not less than $25,000 shall be expended for the River House in Beverly"
and
"; provided further, that not less than $25,000 be expended for the Stevens-Bennett Home in the city of Haverhill"
and
"; provided further that not less than $25,000 shall be expended for the Pembroke Grange"
and
"; provided further, that not less than $10,000 shall be expended to the Centerville Veteran’s Association in the Town of Barnstable as a one-time matching grant to erect a statue honoring Veteran’s of Foreign Wars in the village of Centerville"
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8100-0000 |
150,000 |
249,526,547 |
"; provided further, that not more than $150,000 shall be provided for the State Courts Against Road Rage program"
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8324-0000 |
2,350,000 |
12,207,596 |
"; provided further, that $500,000 shall be provided for the Boston Fire Department Hazardous Material Response Teams "
and
"; provided further, that not less than $1,750,000 shall be provided for the Boston Fire Department training academy; provided further, that $100,000 shall be expended to Norfolk County to maintain and improve services of the Norfolk County Regional Fire and Rescue Dispatch Center"
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8400-0001 |
218,000 |
53,480,479 |
"; provided further, that not less than $218,000 shall be expended to operate a license express office in the city of Lynn"
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8910-0000 |
60,000 |
191,292,937 |
"; provided further, that funds appropriated in this item shall be in addition to and contingent on item 1599-7092"
and
"; provided further, that $60,000 shall be expended for the operation of the Barnstable County Sheriff’s Office Reentry Program"
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I disapprove in the following items in Section 2 the wording as indicated:
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Section 2 |
Wording Stricken |
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1000-0001 |
"; provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the comptroller shall deduct an amount of $1,000 from any item of appropriation in section 2 of this act in which a reporting requirement is stipulated within said item and which report is not filed within 10 days of the stated due date"
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1775-1100 |
"; provided, that the division shall evaluate the use of technology, the internet, and online auctions to enhance the sales of surplus vehicles and submit a report of its findings to the house and senate committees on ways and means, and the house and senate committees on post audit and oversight on or before October 1, 2007"
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1790-0100 |
"; 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 May 16, 2008, with actual and projected savings and expenditures for the audits in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008"
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2300-0100 |
"; provided further, that the department of fish and game shall provide the house and senate committees on ways and means with a 30 day notice before any inter subsidiary transfers"
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4000-0300 |
"; provided further, that the executive office shall not reduce the outpatient rates for any specialty hospital which limits its admissions to patients under active diagnosis and treatment of the eyes, ears, nose, and throat, below that which was granted during hospital fiscal year 2005"
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4800-0151 |
"; provided further, that the department of social services shall file a report detailing the number of children in need of services as defined in section 21 of chapter 119 of the General Laws, for whom a parent or legal guardian, police officer or supervisor of attendance appointed pursuant to section 19 of chapter 76 of the General Laws seeks assistance; provided further, that the department of social services shall compile this report in collaboration with the juvenile court, the department of probation, the department of mental health, the department of youth services, the department of education and the executive office of health and human services; provided further, that the review shall contain information on the demographics of the population of children served, the contacts a child has with executive of judicial agencies and departments, the service needs identified for each child, recidivism rates and the outcome of individual cases; provided further, that information identifying individual persons shall not be included in this report; and provided further, that the department of social services in collaboration with those agencies, shall report its findings to the chairs of the house and senate committees on ways and means and the chairs of the joint committee on children and families no later than October 12, 2007"
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I disapprove in the following items in Section 2B the wording as indicated:
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Section 2B |
Wording Stricken |
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1102-3224 |
"; provided, that the division of capital asset management and maintenance shall submit to the house and senate committees on ways and means on or before the first of each month beginning July 1, 2007 a monthly report on the agencies that currently, or will during fiscal year 2008 occupy space in the Saltonstall building, their rental costs, utility costs, parking space allocation, floor space, lease dates, all services included in the lease and all services that the agencies are obligated to fund beyond the lease payments; and provided further, that the report shall include both estimated payments and prior expenditures" |
I return for amendment, pursuant to the authority vested in me by Article 56, as amended by Article 90, Section 3, of the Amendments to the Constitution, Sections 17, 30, 53, and 86. The text of my recommended amendments is set forth in separate letters of this date to the Senate and House of Representatives.
The remainder of this bill I approve.
Approved, July 12, 2007 at o'clock and minutes, .M.
Respectfully submitted,
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DEVAL L. PATRICK,
Governor.
Attachment A
FY08 Budget
Veto Items: Line Item Accounts
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Item Number Action Reduce By Reduce To |
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Section 2 |
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Appeals Court
0322-0100 Reduce 420,600 10,616,684
I am reducing this item to an amount consistent with my House 1 recommendation.
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Trial Court Administration
0330-0300 Reduce 10,000,000 124,412,460
I am reducing this item to an amount consistent with my House 1 recommendation.
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Trial Court Additional Expenses
0330-3337 Reduce 1,450,000 19,007,323
I am reducing this item to an amount consistent with my House 1 recommendation.
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Comptroller Operations
1000-0001 Strike Wording
I am striking this language because my administration will promptly comply with legislative reporting requirements, and therefore it is unnecessary.
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Tax Administration
1201-0100 Reduce/Strike Wording 75,000 115,942,360
I am striking language which earmarks funding for a program that is beyond the scope of the agency's mission and I am reducing the appropriation for this item accordingly.
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Surplus Motor Vehicle Retained Revenue
1775-1100 Strike Wording
I am striking this language because this report has already been filed.
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Information Technology Division Administration
1790-0100 Strike Wording
I am striking this language because the current state of telecommunications technology renders this report obsolete.
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Environmental Law Enforcement
2030-1000 Reduce 292,478 10,659,472
I am reducing this item to an amount consistent with my House 1 recommendation.
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Fish & Game Commissioner
2300-0100 Strike Wording
I am striking this language because requiring reports of inter-subsidiary transfers is unduly burdensome.
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Agricultural Resources
2511-0100 Reduce/Strike Wording 110,000 4,832,183
I am striking language which earmarks funding for programs that are beyond the scope of the agency's mission and I am reducing the appropriation for this item accordingly.
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Dam Regulatory Office
2800-0700 Reduce/Strike Wording 300,000 1,145,000
I am striking language which earmarks funding for programs that are beyond the scope of the agency's mission and I am reducing the appropriation for this item accordingly.
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State Parks and Recreation
2810-0100 Reduce/Strike Wording 550,000 22,755,308
I am striking language which earmarks funding for programs that are beyond the scope of the agency's mission and I am reducing the appropriation for this item accordingly.
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Urban Parks and Recreation
2820-0100 Reduce/Strike Wording 710,000 28,238,582
I am striking language which earmarks funding for programs that are beyond the scope of the agency's mission and I am reducing the appropriation for this item accordingly.
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Central Artery Parks
2820-0300 Reduce 400,000 1,371,000
I am reducing this item to the amount projected to be necessary.
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Health and Human Services and Medicaid Admin.
4000-0300 Strike Wording
I am striking language which is consistent with my action for item 4000-0700.
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MassHealth Senior Care
4000-0600 Reduce/Strike Wording 2,000,000 2,051,753,985
I am striking language which earmarks funding for program expansion not recommended because it is inconsistent with the rate-setting process provided by law and I am reducing the appropriation for this item accordingly.
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MassHealth Indemnity
4000-0700 Reduce 1,500,000 1,682,246,704
I am reducing funding consistent with my action in 4000-0300 because it is inconsistent with the rate-setting process provided by law and I am reducing the appropriation for this item accordingly.
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Department of Youth Services Teacher Salaries
4200-0500 Reduce 717,000 2,583,000
I am reducing this item to an amount consistent with my House 1 recommendation.
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Family Shelters
4403-2120 Reduce/Strike Wording 300,000 82,821,534
I am striking language which earmarks funding for programs that are beyond the scope of this item and I am reducing the appropriation for this item accordingly.
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Juvenile Offender Placement
4800-0151 Strike Wording
I am striking this language because this duplicative and inappropriately placed language will create an undue administrative burden on the agency.
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Workforce Development Grants
7003-0702 Veto 10,473,000 0
I am vetoing this item because there is an insufficient balance in the Workforce Training Fund to pay for these programs.
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Housing Main Administration
7004-0099 Reduce/Strike Wording 100,000 10,193,166
I am striking language which earmarks funding for a program that is beyond the scope of the agency's mission and I am reducing the appropriation for this item accordingly.
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Office of Travel and Tourism
7007-0900 Reduce/Strike Wording 2,860,000 25,371,965
I am striking language which earmarks funding for programs that are beyond the scope of the agency's mission and I am reducing the appropriation for this item accordingly.
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Local Tourist Councils
7007-1000 Reduce 537,500 8,462,500
I am reducing the appropriation for this item because it funds program expansion not recommended.
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Mass Technology Collaborative
7007-1200 Veto 250,000 0
I am vetoing this item because it is not consistent with my House 1 recommendation.
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Franklin Institute
7061-9619 Reduce 100,000 1
I am reducing this item to an amount consistent with my House 1 recommendation.
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Tufts Veterinary
7077-0023 Reduce 325,000 5,000,000
I am reducing the appropriation for this item because it funds program expansion not recommended.
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S.A.F.E. Programs
8000-0619 Veto 1,178,666 0
I am vetoing this item because it is not consistent with my House 1 recommendation.
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Department of State Police
8100-0000 Reduce/Strike Wording 150,000 249,526,547
I am striking language which earmarks funding for a program that is beyond the scope of the agency's mission and I am reducing the appropriation for this item accordingly.
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Department of Fire Services
8324-0000 Reduce/Strike Wording 2,350,000 12,207,596
I am striking language which earmarks funding for programs that are inconsistent with the purposes of this item and I am reducing the appropriation for this item accordingly.
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Registry of Motor Vehicles
8400-0001 Reduce/Strike Wording 218,000 53,480,479
I am striking language which earmarks funding for program expansion that is not recommended and I am reducing the appropriation for this item accordingly.
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County Corrections Reserve
8910-0000 Reduce/Strike Wording 60,000 191,292,937
I am striking language which earmarks funding that is inconsistent with the statutory power of the County Government Finance Review Board and I am reducing the appropriation for this item accordingly.
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Prescription Advantage
9110-1455 Reduce 3,286,599 60,504,455
I am reducing this item to an amount consistent with the agency's declining caseload projections and historical reversions.
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Item Number Action Reduce By Reduce To |
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Section 2B |
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Saltonstall Lease Payments
1102-3224 Strike Wording
I am striking this language because it is no longer necessary to require monthly reports.
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Section D |
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Abstinence Education Program Grant
4513-9084 Veto 712,241 0
I am vetoing this item because this grant's conditions prevent its expenditure for comprehensive sexuality education.
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