HOUSE .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   No. 4857

  Section 8 contained in the engrossed Bill making appropriations for the fiscal year 2008 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects (see House, No. 4851), which had been returned by His Honor the Lieutenant-Governor, Acting Governor, with recommendation of amendment (for message, see of House, No. 4856).  June 19, 2008.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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IN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND EIGHT.

An Act  RELATIVE TO THE BENEFITS OF CERTAIN COURT EMPLOYEES.

   Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purpose, which is to provide benefits for certain employees, 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 2 of chapter 120 of the acts of 2008 is hereby amended by striking out item 0330-0337 and inserting in place thereof the following item:-

0330-3337.. For the costs in fiscal year 2008 of salary increases, benefit adjustments 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 Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 6 (AFL-CIO), professional and clerical units and personnel of the trial court employed in confidential positions who would otherwise be covered by said agreement in effect for fiscal year 2008 and to meet the costs of providing equal salary adjustments and other economic benefits to employees who are not otherwise classified in any such collective bargaining unit of the trial court, the mental health legal advisors committee, the board of bar examiners and the commission on judicial conduct....... $8,187,426.