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An Act making appropriations for the Fiscal Year 2008 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects.
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Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purposes, which are forthwith to make supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2008 and to make certain changes in law, each of which is immediately necessary to carry out those appropriations or to accomplish other important public purposes, therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public convenience.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the
same, as follows:
SECTION 1. To provide for supplementing certain items in the general appropriation act and other appropriation acts for fiscal year 2008, the sums set forth in section 2 are hereby appropriated from the General Fund unless specifically designated otherwise in this act or in those appropriation acts, for the several purposes and subject to the conditions specified in this act or in those appropriation acts, and subject to the laws regulating the disbursement of public funds for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008. These sums shall be in addition to any amounts previously appropriated and made available for the purposes of those items.
SECTION 2.
SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH
Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth
0521-0000 ........................................................................................................................... $195,006
Executive OFFICE for ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE
Reserves
1599-1971 ...................................................................................................................... $27,107,795
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Department of Conservation and Recreation
2820-2000 ........................................................................................................................ $1,676,322
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS
Highway Department
6005-0015 ........................................................................................................................ $6,025,239
6010-0002 ........................................................................................................................ $2,862,102
6030-7201 ...................................................................................................................... $38,763,050
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND HOMELAND SECURITY
Sex Offender Registry Board
8000-0125 ........................................................................................................................... $354,976
Military Division
8700-0001 ........................................................................................................................ $2,256,619
SECTION 2A. To provide for certain unanticipated obligations of the commonwealth, to provide for an alteration of purpose for current appropriations, and to meet certain requirements of law, the sums set forth in this section are hereby appropriated from the General Fund unless specifically designated otherwise in this section, for the several purposes and subject to the conditions specified in this section, and subject to the laws regulating the disbursement of public funds for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008. These sums shall be in addition to any amounts previously appropriated and made available for the purposes of those items.
OFFICE OF THE STATE COMPTROLLER
Office of the State Comptroller
1599-3394 For payment to the United States Department of Labor for the outstanding balance of the judgment in Jane C. Edmonds v. Elaine L. Chao........................................................................... $7,332,364
EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE
Office of the Secretary of Administration and Finance
1599-4275 For a reserve to meet the fiscal year 2008 costs of salary adjustments and other economic benefits authorized by the collective bargaining agreement between the Middlesex sheriff’s department and the Middlesex Superior Officers Association, and to meet the fiscal year 2008 costs of salary adjustments and other economic benefits necessary to provide equal adjustments and benefits to employees employed in confidential positions which otherwise would be covered by this agreement; provided, that the personnel administrator, with the approval of the secretary of administration and finance, shall determine these adjustments and benefits for the confidential employees in accordance with the collective bargaining agreement then in effect which otherwise would cover these positions; provided further, that the secretary may transfer from the sum appropriated in this item to other items of appropriation and allocations thereof for fiscal year 2008 amounts that are necessary to meet these costs 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................................................... $147,310
1599-4277 For a reserve to meet the fiscal year 2008 costs of salary adjustments and other economic benefits authorized by the collective bargaining agreement between the commonwealth and the Massachusetts Nurses Association (Unit 7), and to meet the fiscal year 2008 costs of salary adjustments and other economic benefits necessary to provide equal adjustments and benefits to employees employed in confidential positions which otherwise would be covered by this agreement; provided, that the personnel administrator, with the approval of the secretary of administration and finance, shall determine these adjustments and benefits for the confidential employees in accordance with the collective bargaining agreement then in effect which otherwise would cover these positions; provided further, that the secretary may transfer from the sum appropriated in this item to other items of appropriation and allocations thereof for fiscal year 2008 amounts that are necessary to meet these costs 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................................................. $2,353,765
1599-4278 For a reserve to meet the fiscal year 2007, 2008 and 2009 costs of salary adjustments and other economic benefits authorized by the collective bargaining agreement between the commonwealth and the Coalition of Public Safety, Unit 5, at the alcoholic beverages control commission, and to meet the fiscal year 2007, 2008 and 2009 costs of salary adjustments and other economic benefits necessary to provide equal adjustments and benefits to employees employed in confidential positions which otherwise would be covered by this agreement; provided, that the personnel administrator, with the approval of the secretary of administration and finance, shall determine these adjustments and benefits for the confidential employees in accordance with the collective bargaining agreement then in effect which otherwise would cover these positions; provided further, that the secretary may transfer from the sum appropriated in this item to other items of appropriation and allocations thereof for fiscal year 2008 and 2009 amounts that are necessary to meet these costs 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; and provided further, that $63,786 shall be available through June 30, 2009, to provide for the fiscal year 2009 costs of the contract...................................................................................... $172,247
SECTION 3. Section 87 of chapter 61 of the acts of 2007 is hereby amended by striking the words "October 31, 2007" and inserting in place thereof the following words:- "June 30, 2008"
SECTION 4. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the comptroller shall grant a one-time partial waiver of deductions for pensions, group health, life insurance, or any other such fringe costs recovered on behalf of federally reimbursed state employees in the department of workforce development; provided, however, that these costs shall not exceed $4,892,543. This waiver shall apply only for fiscal year 2008 and shall expire on June 30, 2008.