Chapter 159 of the Acts of 2000

Chapter 159.

T H E C O M M O N W E A L T H O F M A S S A C H U S E T T S

In the Year Two Thousand

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2001 FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF THE DEPARTMENTS, BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, INSTITUTIONS AND CERTAIN ACTIVITIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH, FOR INTEREST, SINKING FUND AND SERIAL BOND REQUIREMENTS AND FOR CERTAIN PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS.

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purpose, which is immediately to make appropriations
for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2000, and to make certain changes in law, each of which is immediately necessary or
appropriate to effectuate said appropriations or for 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 the maintenance of the several departments, boards, commissions and institutions and other services, and for certain permanent improvements and to meet certain requirements of law, the sums set forth in sections 2, 2B, 2D and 3, for the several purposes and subject to the conditions specified in said sections 2, 2B, 2D and 3, are hereby appropriated from the General Fund unless specifically designated otherwise, subject to the provisions of law regulating the
disbursement of public funds and the approval thereof for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001.

SECTION 1A. In accordance with Articles LXIII and CVII of the Articles of Amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth and section 6D of chapter 29 of the General Laws, it is hereby declared that the amounts of revenue set forth in this section by source for the respective funds of the commonwealth for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001 are necessary and sufficient to provide the means to defray the appropriations and expenditures from such funds for said fiscal year as set forth and authorized in sections 2 and 2B. The comptroller shall keep a distinct account of actual receipts from each such source by each such fund to furnish the executive office for administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means with quarterly statements comparing such receipts with the projected receipts set forth herein and to include a full statement comparing such actual and projected receipts in the annual report for said fiscal year pursuant to section 13 of chapter 7A of the General Laws. The quarterly and annual reports shall also include detailed statements of any other sources of revenue for the budgeted funds in addition to those specified in this section.

FY 2001 Revenue By Source and Budgetary Fund

Source All Funds General Highway Local
Aid
Other
Alcoholic Beverages 61.0 61.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Commercial Banks and Savings
Institutions
116.0 116.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Cigarette 274.0 92.9 0.0 0.0 181.1
Corporations 1,194.0 716.4 0.0 477.6 0.0
Deeds 114.0 114.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Estate/Inheritance 177.0 177.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Income 8,915.9 5,349.5 0.0 3,566.4 0.0
Insurance 312.0 312.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Unemployment Insurance Surcharges 18.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 18.0
Motor Fuels 705.0 94.1 602.2 0.0 8.7
FY 2001 Revenue By Source and Budgetary Fund
Source All Funds General Highway Local
Aid
Other
Utilities 108.0 108.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Room Occupancy 143.0 77.0 0.0 0.0 66.0
Sales & Use: Regular 1,995.0 1,196.5 0.0 797.7 0.8
Sales & Use: Meals 478.0 286.6 0.0 191.0 0.4
Sales & Use: Motor Vehicles 555.0 333.0 0.0 222.0 0.0
Miscellaneous 16.5 3.3 0.0 0.0 13.2
Racing 8.7 8.7 0.0 0.0 0.0
Beano 3.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Raffles/Bazaars 1.2 1.2 0.0 0.0 0.0
Division of Insurance 8.5 8.5 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total Taxes 15,203.8 9,058.7 602.2 5,254.7 288.2
Federal Reimbursements 3,797.9 2,889.4 2.5 0.0 906.0
Departmental Revenues 1,443.6 821.7 294.4 6.2 321.3
Transfers & Other Receipts 1,141.5 222.2 0.0 808.6 110.7
Total for Budget 21,586.8 12,992.0 899.1 6,069.5 1,626.2

SECTION 1B. The comptroller shall keep a distinct account of actual receipts of non-tax revenues by each department, board, commission or institution to furnish the executive office for administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means with quarterly statements comparing such receipts with projected receipts set forth herein and to include a full statement comparing such receipts with projected receipts in the annual report for such fiscal year pursuant to section 13 of chapter 7A of the General Laws. The quarterly and annual reports shall also include detailed statements of any other sources of revenue for the budgeted funds in addition to those specified in this section.

Non-Tax Revenue: Executive Office Summary

Unrestricted Restricted Total
Revenue Source Non-Tax Non-Tax Non-Tax
Judiciary $66,506,867 $0 $66,506,867
District Attorneys $9,762 $0 $9,762
Office of the Governor $10,000 $0 $10,000
Office of the Secretary of State $83,675,764 $61,000 $83,736,764
Office of the State Treasurer $444,114,694 $730,000,000 $1,174,114,694
Office of the Attorney General $6,950,274 $0 $6,950,274
Ethics Commission $21,800 $0 $21,800
Office of the Inspector General $0 $400,000 $400,000
Campaign & Political Finance $27,500 $0 $27,500
Office of the State Comptroller $97,549,798 $2,000 $97,551,798
Executive Office: Administration & Finance $277,915,828 $20,632,718 $298,548,546
Executive Office: Environmental Affairs $83,977,656 $3,401,818 $87,379,474
Executive Office: Human Services $3,798,472,032 $128,516,525 $3,926,988,557
Executive Office: Transportation $8,439,616 $27,345 $8,466,961
Board of Library Commissioners $1,200 $0 $1,200
Labor, Education and Development $259,339,538 $1,961,100 $261,300,638
Executive Office of Public Safety $341,036,823 $26,484,119 $367,520,942
Executive Office of Elder Affairs $487,608 $3,000,000 $3,487,608
Legislature $21,500 $0 $21,500
Taxes $15,203,800,000 $0 $15,203,800,000
Total: $20,672,358,261 $914,486,625 $21,586,844,886
Non-Tax Revenue: Executive Office by Department Summary
Unrestricted Restricted Total
Revenue Non-Tax Non-Tax Non-Tax
Judiciary
Supreme Judicial Court $1,348,264 $0 $1,348,264
Committee for Public Counsel $200,000 $0 $200,000
Appeals Court $267,353 $0 $267,353
Trial Court $64,691,250 $0 $64,691,250
TOTALS : $66,506,867 $0 $66,506,867
District Attorneys
Northern District Attorney $1,000 $0 $1,000
Northwestern District Attorney $1,388 $0 $1,388
Eastern District Attorney $1,233 $0 $1,233
Middle District Attorney $1,010 $0 $1,010
Bristol District Attorney $0 $0 $0
Hampden District Attorney $5,131 $0 $5,131
TOTALS : $9,762 $0 $9,762
Office of the Governor
Office of the Governor $10,000 $0 $10,000
TOTALS : $10,000 $0 $10,000
Office of the Secretary of State
Secretary of State $83,675,764 $61,000 $83,736,764
TOTALS : $83,675,764 $61,000 $83,736,764
Office of the State Treasurer
Treasurer's Office $278,972,314 $0 $278,972,314
State Lottery Commission $150,928,584 $730,000,000 $880,928,584
Mass Cultural Council $14,213,796 $0 $14,213,796
TOTALS : $444,114,694 $730,000,000 $1,174,114,694
Office of the Attorney General
Attorney General $6,800,516 $0 $6,800,516
Victim Witness Assistance $149,758 $0 $149,758
TOTALS : $6,950,274 $0 $6,950,274
Ethics Commission
Ethics Commission $21,800 $0 $21,800
TOTALS : $21,800 $0 $21,800
Office of the Inspector General
Inspector General $0 $400,000 $400,000
TOTALS : $0 $400,000 $400,000
Campaign & Political Finance
Campaign & Political Finance $27,500 $0 $27,500
TOTALS : $27,500 $0 $27,500
Office of the State Comptroller
Comptroller's Office $97,549,798 $2,000 $97,551,798
TOTALS : $97,549,798 $2,000 $97,551,798
Executive Office: Administration & Finance
Veterans Affairs $4,000 $150,000 $154,000
Secretary of Administration & Finance ($7,796,758) $0 ($7,796,758)
Division of Fiscal Affairs - Fringe $61,771,619 $0 $61,771,619
Recovery
Fingold Library $1,500 $0 $1,500
Office of Dispute Resolution $0 $150,000 $150,000
DCAMM $5,454,012 $13,950,000 $19,404,012
Group Insurance Commission $130,960,942 $0 $130,960,942
Division of Administrative Law Appeals $50,000 $0 $50,000
M.C.A.D. $78,527 $1,840,844 $1,919,371
Dept of Revenue $85,688,515 $0 $85,688,515
Appellate Tax Board $1,385,319 $0 $1,385,319
Human Resources Division $119,250 $2,049,607 $2,168,857
Division of Operational Services $93,339 $1,904,891 $1,998,230
BSOB $105,564 $0 $105,564
Division of Information Technology $0 $587,376 $587,376
TOTALS : $277,915,828 $20,632,718 $298,548,546
Executive Office: Environmental Affairs
Secretary of Environmental Affairs $206,100 $93,721 $299,821
Dept of Environmental Management $7,807,439 $285,872 $8,093,311
Dept of Environmental Protection $31,929,332 $0 $31,929,332
Fish/Wildlife Environmental Law $16,498,593 $580,000 $17,078,593
Enforcement
Metropolitan District Commission $20,385,684 $2,442,225 $22,827,909
Dept of Food & Agriculture $7,150,509 $0 $7,150,509
TOTALS : $83,977,656 $3,401,818 $87,379,474
Executive Office: Human Services
Secretary of Human Services $4,000,700 $0 $4,000,700
Division of Medical Assistance $2,398,727,674 $70,000,000 $2,468,727,674
Division of Health Care Finance and $10,164,610 $0 $10,164,610
Policy
Mass Commission for the Blind $2,927,762 $0 $2,927,762
Mass Rehabilitation Commission $20,000 $4,000,000 $4,020,000
Mass Commission for the Deaf $38,500 $105,000 $143,500
Office of Child Care Services $201,297,049 $0 $201,297,049
Chelsea Soldiers' Home $6,470,000 $157,000 $6,627,000
Holyoke Soldiers' Home $7,570,745 $212,000 $7,782,745
Dept of Youth Services $42,500 $0 $42,500
Dept of Transitional Assistance $452,570,667 $0 $452,570,667
Dept of Public Health $90,932,176 $47,117,525 $138,049,701
Dept of Social Services $195,045,315 $0 $195,045,315
Dept of Mental Health $83,080,136 $6,825,000 $89,905,136
Dept of Mental Retardation $345,584,198 $100,000 $345,684,198
TOTALS : $3,798,472,032 $128,516,525 $3,926,988,557
Executive Office: Transportation
Secretary of Transportation $1,023,116 $27,345 $1,050,461
Mass Aeronautics Commission $270,000 $0 $270,000
Mass Highway $7,146,500 $0 $7,146,500
TOTALS : $8,439,616 $27,345 $8,466,961
Board of Library Commissioners
Board of Library Commissioners $1,200 $0 $1,200
TOTALS : $1,200 $0 $1,200
Labor, Education and Development
Office of Director of Labor $853,402 $0 $853,402
Dept of Industrial Accidents $21,513,925 $0 $21,513,925
Labor Relations Commission $150 $0 $150
Board of Conciliation & Arbitration $89,023 $0 $89,023
Office of Communities and Development $3,152,560 $1,000,000 $4,152,560
Director of Consumer Affairs and $0 $0 $0
Business Reg.
Secretary of Economic Affairs $1,000 $0 $1,000
Division of Banks $11,490,000 $0 $11,490,000
Division of Insurance $40,360,684 $0 $40,360,684
Division of Registration $10,856,242 $0 $10,856,242
Division of Standards $1,155,393 $338,000 $1,493,393
Community Antenna Television Division $1,400,000 $0 $1,400,000
Dept of Public Utilities $12,230,330 $0 $12,230,330
Energy Facilities Siting Commission $0 $350,000 $350,000
Alcohol Beverages Control Commission $1,506,400 $0 $1,506,400
State Racing Commission $2,643,700 $0 $2,643,700
Board of Medicine $2,805,000 $0 $2,805,000
Department of Economic Development $500 $0 $500
Division of Energy Resources $562,443 $0 $562,443
Department of Education $8,841,171 $0 $8,841,171
Higher Education $38,610,630 $273,100 $38,883,730
University of Massachusetts $101,266,986 $0 $101,266,986
TOTALS : $259,339,538 $1,961,100 $261,300,638
Executive Office of Public Safety
Secretary of Public Safety $300,500

Secretary of Public Safety $300,500 $17,980 $318,480
Chief Medical Examiner $900 $0 $900
Criminal History Systems Board $2,782,200 $0 $2,782,200
Board of Building Regulations $280,800 $80,000 $360,800
Architectural Access Board $10,000 $0 $10,000
Dept of State Police $405,500 $14,851,367 $15,256,867
Criminal Justice Training Council $2,500 $960,000 $962,500
Dept of Public Safety $9,930,749 $0 $9,930,749
Dept of Fire Services $5,159,608 $0 $5,159,608
Registry of Motor Vehicles $293,594,000 $5,800,000 $299,394,000
Merit Rating Board $37,140 $0 $37,140
Military Division $2,000 $840,000 $842,000
Emergency Management Agency $721,437 $0 $721,437
Gov's Highway Safety Bureau $212,000 $0 $212,000
Dept of Corrections $23,618,400 $3,367,995 $26,986,395
Sheriff's Department Franklin $277,400 $0 $277,400
Sheriff's Department Hampden $745,473 $491,777 $1,237,250
Sheriff's Department Middlesex $2,419,418 $75,000 $2,494,418
Sheriff's Department Hampshire $347,400 $0 $347,400
Sheriff's Department Worcester $179,398 $0 $179,398
Parole Board $10,000 $0 $10,000
TOTALS : $341,036,823 $26,484,119 $367,520,942
Executive Office of Elder Affairs
Secretary of Elder Affairs $487,608 $3,000,000 $3,487,608
TOTALS : $487,608 $3,000,000 $3,487,608
Legislature
House of Representatives $18,500 $0 $18,500
Joint Legislative $2,000 $0 $2,000
Senate $1,000 $0 $1,000
TOTALS : $21,500 $0 $21,500
Taxes
Taxation $15,203,800,000 $0 $15,203,800,000
TOTALS : $15,203,800,000 $0 $15,203,800,000
Total Tax and Non-Tax Revenue:$20,672,358,261 $914,486,625 $21,586,844,886

SECTION 2.

JUDICIARY.
Supreme Judicial Court.

0320-0001
For the office of the chief justice and the six associate justices......................................$934,978

0320-0003
For the operation of the supreme judicial court; provided, that $100,000 shall be expended for the contracting of staff attorneys; provided further, that $100,000 shall be expended for the expenses of the future lab task force projects; and provided further, that not later than February 1, 2001, said task force shall submit to the house and senate committees on ways and means a report detailing the total number of people served by each program, types of services rendered at each location, and the cost per program..................................$4,715,623

0320-0010
For the operation of the clerk’s office of the supreme judicial court for Suffolk county...............$926,596

0320-0016
For the cost of upgrading and purchasing computer equipment for the supreme judicial court and the appeals court of the commonwealth; provided, that not more than $52,805 shall be expended for one information technology position; and provided further, that not more than $84,118 shall be expended for computer upgrading improvements and
computer training in fiscal year 2001...................$275,000

0321-0001
For the operation of the commission on judicial conduct.................................................$434,351

0321-0100
For the services of the board of bar examiners..........$953,258

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, including expenses for an audit and oversight unit; provided, that not more than $48,600 shall be expended for one mental health attorney, that not more than $41,800 shall be expended for one post conviction staff attorney, and that not more than $59,600 shall be contracted for accounting clerks in fiscal year 2001 over and above the expenditures made for such positions in fiscal year 2000; and provided further, that employee compensation levels funded herein shall not exceed the compensation levels in fiscal year 2000..................................................$7,371,690

0321-1502
For compensation to public counsel assigned cases under the provisions of subsection (a) of section 6 of chapter 211D of the General Laws, pursuant to section 13 of chapter 211D of the General Laws, including compensation for the chief counsel, deputy chief counsels, and general counsel............$7,829,850

0321-1503
For the children and family law program pursuant to section 6A of chapter 211D of the General Laws..........$805,041

0321-1504
For the continuation of a youth advocacy program, so-called...............................................$456,913

0321-1510
For compensation paid to private counsel assigned to criminal cases under the provisions of subsection (b) of section 6 of chapter 211D of the General Laws, pursuant to section 12 of said chapter 211D; provided, that the committee for public counsel services may operate a pilot team leader program in fiscal year 2001 in not more than four counties; provided further, that no funds provided herein or in items 0321-1512 or 0321-1520 shall be used for the expenses of said team leader program; provided further, that the amount appropriated herein shall be expended for services rendered in fiscal year 2001 only; provided further, that the chief counsel may transfer funds to item 0321-1512 as necessary, pursuant to schedules submitted to the house and senate committees on ways and means 30 days prior to any such transfer; and provided further, that the rates of compensation paid for private counsel services from this item shall be the same as the rates paid in fiscal year 1998..................................$43,500,000

0321-1512
For compensation paid to private counsel assigned to family law and mental health cases under the provisions of subsection (b) of section 6 of chapter 211D of the General Laws, pursuant to section 12 of said chapter 211D; provided, that the amount appropriated herein shall be expended for services rendered in fiscal year 2001 only; provided further, that the chief counsel may transfer funds to item 0321-1510 as necessary, pursuant to schedules submitted to the house and senate committees on ways and means 30 days prior to any such transfer; and provided further, that the rates of compensation paid for private counsel services from this item shall be the same as the rates paid in fiscal year 1998.......................$21,000,000

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 the amount appropriated herein shall only be expended for services rendered in fiscal year 2001.............$5,186,168

0321-1600
For the Massachusetts legal assistance corporation to provide legal representation for indigent or otherwise disadvantaged residents of the commonwealth; provided, that $1,204,604 shall be expended for the disability benefits project, $550,906 shall be expended for the medicare advocacy project, and $2,521,289 shall be expended for the battered women’s legal assistance project; provided further, that the first paragraph of section 9 of chapter 221A of the General Laws shall not apply to said programs; and provided further, that said corporation may contract with any organization for the purpose of providing such representation........................................$4,276,799

0321-1610
For the Massachusetts legal assistance corporation for the purpose of distributing funds for general operating costs of local and statewide civil legal services providers; provided, that said corporation shall submit a plan to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than September 30, 2001 on the proposed implementation of expanding legal services for civil cases; and provided further, that said plan shall detail the amounts and sources of funding to be secured by said corporation for the purposes of said expansion, the dates upon which said funding shall be available from each such source, the proposed distribution of such expansion funds by type of case and geographic location..........................$4,800,000

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......................$503,028

0321-2100
For the Massachusetts correctional legal services committee...............................................$730,214

The Governor reduced the following items to the following amount.
0321-2205
For the expenses of the social law library located in Suffolk county.....................................$~~2,036,000~~ 1,751,200

The Governor reduced the following items to the following amount.
0321-2206
For the social law library to operate the electronic law database project.........................$~~450,000~~ 300,000

Appeals Court.

0322-0100
For the appeals court, including the salaries, traveling allowances and expenses of the chief justice and the associate justices and the expenses of the conference program, so-called; provided, that eight additional justices and six additional law clerks shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001; provided further, that $125,813 shall be expended for contracted staff attorneys; provided further, that $56,543 shall be expended for two additional judicial secretaries; provided further, that $65,626 shall be expended for a deputy fiscal officer and one appellate sessions clerk; and provided further, that $70,800 shall be expended for the purchasing of office related items associated with the addition of the new justices......$7,618,204

Trial Court.

0330-0101
For the salaries of the justices of the superior court department 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 such transfer......$8,830,821

0330-0102
For the salaries of the justices of the district court department 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 such transfer.....$18,783,392

0330-0103
For the salaries of the justices of the probate and family court department 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 such transfer.........................................$5,248,835

0330-0104
For the salaries of the justices of the land court department 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 such transfer........$455,830

0330-0105
For the salaries of the justices of the Boston municipal 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 such transfer.........$1,238,712

0330-0106
For the salaries of the justices of the housing court department 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 such transfer; and provided further, that one additional justice to be assigned to the southeastern division of the housing court shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001...........................$991,521

0330-0107
For the salaries of the justices of the juvenile court department 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 such transfer; provided further, that four additional justices shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001; and provided further, that one of said new justices shall be assigned to eastern Massachusetts, one of said new justices shall be assigned to western and central Massachusetts, one of said new justices shall be assigned to Essex Juvenile Court, and one of said new justices shall be assigned to Middlesex Juvenile Court...............$4,346,637

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0330-0300
For the administration of the office of the chief justice for administration and management, including the salary of said chief justice for administration and management; provided, that the supreme judicial court shall not charge the trial court for any assessments, services, education, training, or any other ancillary costs; provided further, that $16,725 be paid as sick leave payments to David I. Flemming in accordance with the sick leave bank provisions of chapter 102 of the acts of 1997 and section 273 of chapter 194 of the acts of 1998; and provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for the implementation of a changing lives through literature program....................................$~~7,073,939~~ 7,057,214

0330-0317
For the operation and expenses of the Massachusetts sentencing commission, pursuant to chapter 211E of the General Laws........................................$305,709

0330-0400
For the non-employee services performed by private individuals and contracted services performed by agencies for the individual court divisions of the trial court to be expended as determined by the chief justice for administration and management; provided, that contracting for non-employee assigned interpretive services and contracting with agencies or providers for assigned interpretive services shall not give rise to enforceable legal rights in any party or an enforceable entitlement to interpretive services; provided further, that interpretive services shall be provided by interpreters who have a place of business in the county or within 20 miles of the county where the subject court is located and a permanent court interpreter program shall be established within the counties of Hampden, Hampshire, Berkshire and Franklin with the goal of ensuring that interpretive services be provided by interpreters who have a place of business in said counties; provided further, that nothing stated herein shall be construed as giving rise to such enforceable legal rights or such enforceable entitlement; provided further, that in contracting for services to provide interpreters to persons who are deaf or hard of hearing, the trial court shall maximize the use of interpreter services provided by the Massachusetts commission for the deaf and hard of hearing whenever possible; provided further, that the chief justice for administration and management shall contact and enter into contract with interpreters for the deaf, not later than 24 hours prior to all cases where said interpreters may be needed; provided further, that said contracted interpreters shall be funded at existing rates; and 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...........................$17,908,558

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0330-0410
For alternative dispute resolution services for the trial court; provided, that such 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 $30,000 shall be expended for North Central Court Services, Inc.; provided further, that not less than $30,000 shall be expended for Community Mediation of Worcester; provided further, that not less than $58,000 shall be expended for Metropolitan Mediation Services; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended for Quabbin Mediation in Athol; provided further, that not less than $35,000 shall be expended for the Mediation and Training Collaborative of Franklin County in Greenfield; provided further, that not less than $35,000 shall be expended for Framingham Court Mediation Services; provided further, that not less than $57,835 shall be expended for Dispute Resolution Services, Inc., in Springfield district court; provided further, that not less than $35,000 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 $50,000 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 Somerville Mediation Program; provided further, that not less than $65,000 shall be expended for the Middlesex Multi-Door Courthouse Program; provided further, that $200,000 shall be expended for education and administrative needs of the trial court as well as free screening and possible referral for mediation services for claims filed by prisoners in the trial court and for pro se litigants~~; provided further, that not less than $15,000 shall be expended for the Winchester mediation program~~; provided further, that $200,000 shall be expended for an alternative resolution program administered by the chief justice of the superior court; and provided further, that all remaining funds from this item shall be expended for approved mediation programs in fiscal year 2001.....................................$~~961,861~~ 946,861

0330-0441
For permanency mediation services in the probate and juvenile courts.....................................$540,000

0330-0600
For dental and optical health plan trust agreements ......................................................$4,315,034

0330-1000
For trial court jury expenses.........................$2,730,000

0330-2000
For the trial court law libraries; provided, that the chief justice for administration and management shall collaborate with the Massachusetts bar association, the Boston bar association and law schools in the commonwealth in developing a voluntary library assistance program..................$2,101,837

0330-2002
For the maintenance, purchase and binding of trial court law library materials...........................$3,047,118

0330-2010
For the costs associated with computerized legal research................................................$305,079

0330-2020
For centralized law book purchases......................$575,344

0330-2200
For the rental of county court facilities, in accordance with section 4 of chapter 29A of the General Laws; provided, that all payments made hereunder shall be made pursuant to written agreements; provided further, that quarterly payments shall be made to counties equal to an amount which shall be at least 90 per cent of the amount owed each quarter to such county in the preceding fiscal year, subject to reconciliation based on accurate cost data in the fourth quarter or in the succeeding fiscal year; provided further, that payments made to any county which fails to submit required cost data by the beginning of the third quarter of the fiscal year shall be withheld until such data is submitted to the chief justice for administration and management and approved as accurate; provided further, that said cost data shall be filed with the house and senate committees on ways and means; provided further, that every county receiving such payments shall maintain such funds in a separate account which shall be used solely for the maintenance of the rented facilities; provided further, that each county advisory board, upon receipt of the proposed budget by the county commissioners, shall have final approval of all expenditures under this item; and provided further, that no funds from this account shall be expended on trial court telecommunications costs or rental of private or municipal court facilities............................................$7,728,241

0330-2201
For the purchase, maintenance and lease of statewide telecommunications for the trial court; provided, that not less than $255,000 shall be expended for data lines for the warrant management system................................................$3,343,913

0330-2202
For the payment of private and municipal court leases; provided, that not less than $20,000 shall be expended for a lease for additional space for the district court of eastern Essex located in Gloucester............................................$9,953,230

0330-2205
For the costs associated with maintaining and operating courthouse facilities owned by the commonwealth.........................................$21,305,919

0330-2207
For the costs associated with maintaining and operating the New Chardon street courthouse in the city of Boston, also known as the Edward W. Brooke Courthouse, and the Fenton Judicial center in the city of Lawrence; provided, that no funds may be expended for the purposes stated herein from any other item of appropriation...........................$3,507,819

0330-2300
For the costs of witness fees...........................$245,000

0330-2410
For the operation of the judicial training institute; provided, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for the training of court personnel on domestic violence issues; and provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for a substance abuse training program.........$807,464

0330-2600
For the travel expenses of judicial personnel; provided, that the chief justice for administration and management shall promulgate rules and regulations governing the selection of justices for travel outside of the commonwealth for the purpose of judicial training; and provided further, that said rules and regulations shall give first priority to newly appointed justices for such training..............................................$1,414,938

0330-2700
For trial court printing expenses; provided, that the trial court shall maximize to the extent possible the use of recycled paper and soy-based ink products for any document printing and purchasing............................................$1,875,751

0330-2800
For the cost of equipment purchases, rentals, maintenance and repairs; provided, that such purchases and rentals may be allocated by the chief justice for administration and management; and provided further, that in purchasing such equipment, the chief justice for administration and management shall utilize vendors approved by the state purchasing agent for such equipment whenever the terms offered by such vendors are more favorable than those otherwise available; and provided further that $108,000 shall be allocated for necessary renovations to the District Court of Springfield public access areas.......................$3,469,453

0330-3200
For the court security program, including personnel and expenses; provided, that security guards and court officers may be available for assignment in accordance with juvenile court expansion funded pursuant to item 0337-0003; provided further, that all other per diem court officers shall be paid the daily rate in accordance with collective bargaining agreements; provided further, 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 February 1, 2001 detailing the number of court officers and security personnel located in each trial court of the commonwealth; provided further, that not more than $4,000 shall be expended from this item for the purposes of providing security personnel for extended service hours in the Fitchburg Law Library; provided further, that one additional associate court officer for the Barnstable division of the juvenile court and one additional court officer for the district court of northern Berkshire at Adams shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001; and provided further, that not more than $1,054,749 shall be expended from this item in fiscal year 2001 to hire 40 additional court officers.........................$45,550,974

0330-3300
For the payment of office, administrative and special expenses of the trial court to be allocated by the chief justice for administration and management..............................................$788,629

0330-3700
For the court interpreters program; provided, that the chief justice for administration and management shall establish and direct a policy for the scheduling of court sessions in all court departments to cost-effectively utilize court language interpreters...................................$478,436

The Governor disapproved this section.
0330-4100
For a trial court vacancy pool and reserve; provided, that not later than February 15, 2001, the chief justice for administration and management shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means detailing all assignments and allocations funded from this item.......$437,500

The Governor disapproved this section.
The Legislative overrode the Governor’s decision
0330-4111
For a trial court probation reserve; provided that funds from this item shall be expended as determined by the chief justice for administration and management for the AA subsidiary payroll costs, so-called, of new probation officers; provided further, that funds shall be expended solely for the explicit purpose of reducing the number of probation officers needed in those courts demonstrating the most immediate need for additional probation officers, as determined by the workload formula of the commissioner of probation, according to the final quarterly report of fiscal year 2000; and provided further, that said commissioner shall provide said workload report, for each previous quarter, to the house and senate committees on ways and means on the first day of each quarter............................................$500,000

0330-4303
For the chargeback costs of unemployment compensation, Medicare tax, workers’ compensation, universal health and group insurance assessed against the employees and justices of the trial court.................................................$6,005,941

Superior Court Department.

0331-0100
For the administrative office of the superior court department; provided, that not more than $75,000 shall be expended for judicial education, including the semi-annual conferences, racial and gender bias orientation programs and judicial induction ceremonies............................................$8,079,767

0331-0300
For medical malpractice tribunals established in accordance with the provisions of section 60B of chapter 231 of the General Laws..........................$70,020

0331-2100
For the Barnstable superior court; provided, that the clerk of the court shall have responsibility for the internal administration of his office, including personnel, staff services and record keeping.................................................$563,126

0331-2200
For the Berkshire superior court; provided, that the clerk of the court shall have responsibility for the internal administration of his office, including personnel, staff services and record keeping.................................................$298,593

0331-2300
For the Bristol superior court; provided, that the clerk of the court shall have responsibility for the internal administration of his office, including personnel, staff services and record keeping; and provided further, that said clerk of court shall designate one employee as deputy assistant clerk.......................................$1,119,665

0331-2400
For the Dukes superior court; provided, that the clerk of the court shall have responsibility for the internal administration of his office, including personnel, staff services and record keeping.................................................$181,739

0331-2500
For the Essex superior court; provided, that the clerk of the court shall have responsibility for the internal administration of his office, including personnel, staff services and record keeping...............................................$1,763,650

0331-2600
For the Franklin superior court; provided, that the clerk of the court shall have responsibility for the internal administration of his office, including personnel, staff services and record keeping.................................................$350,226

0331-2700
For the Hampden superior court; provided, that the clerk of the court shall have responsibility for the internal administration of his office, including personnel, staff services and record keeping; and provided further, that two additional assistant clerk magistrates shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001.............$1,566,291

0331-2800
For the Hampshire superior court; provided, that the clerk of the court shall have responsibility for the internal administration of his office, including personnel, staff services and record keeping.................................................$346,777

0331-2900
For the Middlesex superior court; provided, that the clerk of the court shall have responsibility for the internal administration of his office, including personnel, staff services and record keeping...............................................$4,098,497

0331-3000
For the Nantucket superior court; provided, that the clerk of the court shall have responsibility for the internal administration of his office, including personnel, staff services and record keeping.................................................$135,239

0331-3100
For the Norfolk superior court; provided, that the clerk of the court shall have responsibility for the internal administration of his office, including personnel, staff services and record keeping...............................................$1,366,710

0331-3200
For the Plymouth superior court; provided, that the clerk of the court shall have responsibility for the internal administration of his office, including personnel, staff services and record keeping...............................................$1,317,941

0331-3300
For the Suffolk superior civil court; provided, that two additional assistant clerk magistrates shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001; provided further, that the clerk of the court shall have responsibility for the internal administration of his office, including personnel, staff services and record keeping; and provided further, that five additional procedures clerks I shall be funded from this line-item in fiscal year 2001......................................$3,959,367

0331-3400
For the Suffolk superior criminal court; provided, that one additional assistant clerk magistrate shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001; and provided further, that the clerk of the court shall have responsibility for the internal administration of his office, including personnel, staff services and record keeping...............................................$2,580,279

0331-3404
For an education and community outreach pilot program to be administered in the Suffolk superior criminal court..........................................$220,000

0331-3500
For the Worcester superior court; provided, that the clerk of the court shall have responsibility for the internal administration of his office, including personnel, staff services and record keeping...............................................$1,423,993

District Court Department.

0332-0100
For the administrative office of the district court department, including a civil conciliation program....$1,457,101

0332-1100
For the first district court of Barnstable............$1,978,478

0332-1200
For the second district court of Barnstable at Orleans...............................................$1,191,147

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0332-1203
For the third district court of Barnstable at Falmouth; provided, that one additional sessions clerk ~~and three additional probation officers~~ shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001.............................................$~~1,178,492~~ 1,115,243

0332-1300
For the district court of northern Berkshire at Adams, North Adams and Williamstown.....................$720,235

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0332-1400
For the district court of central Berkshire at Pittsfield~~; provided, that two additional probation officers shall be funded from this item in fiscal year 2001~~.............................................$~~1,280,951~~ 1,238,785

0332-1500
For the district court of southern Berkshire at Great Barrington and Lee................................$545,741

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0332-1600
For the first district court of Bristol at Taunton~~; provided, that one additional probation officer shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001~~......................................$~~2,062,788~~ 2,041,705

0332-1700
For the second district court of Bristol at Fall River; provided that one additional administrative assistant and two additional procedure clerks shall be funded from this item in fiscal 2001...............$2,706,788

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0332-1800
For the third district court of Bristol at New Bedford; provided, that no expenditures shall be made from this item without the prior written approval of the chief justice of the district court department; provided further, that said chief justice shall provide written notification to the house and senate committees on ways and means detailing each authorized expenditure within 30 days of such expenditure~~; provided further, that four additional probation officers shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001~~; and provided further, that notwithstanding any laws to the contrary the chief justice of the district court department shall appoint any additional employees funded herein....................$~~3,023,170~~ 2,938,838

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0332-1900
For the fourth district court of Bristol at Attleboro~~; provided, that three additional probation officers shall be funded from this item in fiscal year 2001~~...................................$~~1,438,685~~ 1,375,436

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0332-2000
For the district court of Edgartown~~; provided, that one additional probation officer shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001~~...........$~~382,821~~ 361,738

0332-2100
For the first district court of Essex at Salem; provided, that one case specialist and one additional assistant clerk magistrate shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001..................................................$2,130,374

0332-2300
For the third district court of Essex at Ipswich........$429,321

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0332-2400
For the central district court of northern Essex at Haverhill~~; provided, that two additional probation officers shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001~~..............................$~~1,972,362~~ 1,930,196

0332-2500
For the district court of eastern Essex at Gloucester..............................................$912,288

0332-2600
For the district court of Lawrence....................$3,458,462

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0332-2700
For the district court of southern Essex at Lynn~~; provided, that one additional assistant chief probation officer, three additional probation officers, and~~ one additional head administrative assistant shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001..............................$~~3,096,525~~ 3,008,971

0332-2800
For the district court of Newburyport.................$1,552,437

0332-2900
For the district court of Peabody.....................$1,237,201

0332-3000
For the district court of Greenfield..................$1,307,051

0332-3100
For the district court of Orange; provided, that one additional conflict resolution specialist and one additional assistant clerk magistrate be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001....................................................$676,054

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0332-3200
For the district court of Chicopee; provided, that one additional administrative secretary, ~~two additional probation officers,~~ and one additional secretary I shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001..............................$~~1,170,857~~ 1,128,691

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0332-3300
For the district court of Holyoke~~; provided, that three additional probation officers and two probation case specialists shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001~~.............$~~1,348,064~~ 1,261,652

0332-3400
For the district court of eastern Hampden at Palmer ........................................................$829,628

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0332-3500
For the district court of Springfield; provided, that ~~two additional probation officers,~~ one additional sessions clerk, and one additional courtroom procedures clerk shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001.............$~~4,250,692~~ 4,208,526

0332-3600
For the district court of western Hampden at Westfield...............................................$856,241

0332-3700
For the district court of Hampshire at Northampton....$1,774,968

0332-3800
For the district court of eastern Hampshire at Ware ........................................................$643,885

0332-3900
For the district court of Lowell; provided, that one additional sessions clerk, one additional courtroom procedures clerk, one additional assistant clerk magistrate, and two additional procedures clerks II shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001....................$3,508,224

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0332-4000
For the district court of Somerville; provided, ~~that one additional probation officer shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001; and provided further,~~ that an additional assistant clerk magistrate shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001.............$~~2,668,139~~ 2,647,056

0332-4100
For the district court of Newton; provided, that one additional sessions clerk and one additional procedures clerk I shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001....................$1,029,846

0332-4200
For the district court of Marlborough.................$1,203,990

0332-4300
For the district court of Natick; provided, that one additional assistant clerk magistrate shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001....................................................$868,153

0332-4400
For the first district court of eastern Middlesex at Malden; provided, that an additional assistant clerk magistrate shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001.........................$2,207,616

0332-4500
For the second district court of eastern Middlesex at Waltham............................................$1,534,549

0332-4600
For the third district court of eastern Middlesex at Cambridge..........................................$3,405,081

0332-4700
For the fourth district court of eastern Middlesex at Woburn.............................................$2,300,218

0332-4800
For the first district court of northern Middlesex at Ayer...............................................$1,228,052

0332-4900
For the first district court of southern Middlesex at Framingham.........................................$2,226,310

0332-5000
For the district court of central Middlesex at Concord...............................................$1,338,488

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0332-5100
For the district court of Nantucket; provided, that ~~one additional probation officer and~~ one additional procedures clerk I shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001......................$~~299,054~~ 277,971

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0332-5200
For the district court of northern Norfolk at Dedham~~; provided, that one additional probation officer shall be appointed and funded by this line item in fiscal year 2001~~..............................$~~2,126,770~~ 2,105,687

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0332-5300
For the district court of East Norfolk at Quincy~~; provided, that three additional probation officers shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001~~ .....................................$~~4,840,613~~ 4,777,364

0332-5400
For the district court of western Norfolk at Wrentham; provided that two additional procedure clerks shall be funded from this item in fiscal year 2001.............................................$1,530,651

0332-5500
For the district court of southern Norfolk at Stoughton; provided that one additional office manager shall be funded from this item in fiscal year 2001.............................................$1,732,055

0332-5600
For the municipal court of Brookline....................$878,959

0332-5700
For the district court of Brockton; provided, that one additional assistant clerk magistrate shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001..................................................$3,302,760

0332-5800
For the second district court of Plymouth at Hingham...............................................$1,932,629

0332-5900
For the third district court of Plymouth at Plymouth; provided, that the temporary assistant clerk magistrate position shall be made permanent.....$2,046,702

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0332-6000
For the fourth district court of Plymouth at Wareham; provided further, that two additional assistant clerk magistrates, ~~one additional probation officer~~ and two additional procedures clerk I shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001..............................$~~1,965,436~~ 1,944,353

0332-6100
For the district court of Brighton; provided, that an additional head procedures clerk position to serve in the office of the clerk magistrate shall be funded from this item in fiscal year 2001..........$1,335,643

0332-6200
For the district court of Charlestown; provided, that one assistant clerk magistrate shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001....................................................$819,303

0332-6300
For the district court of Chelsea; provided, that notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, said district court shall be the permanent location for the northern trial session to handle six person jury cases; provided further, that all personnel within said district court whose duties relate to said northern trial session shall report to the clerk magistrate of said district court................................$2,383,777

0332-6400
For the municipal court of the Dorchester district....$4,606,959

0332-6500
For the district court of East Boston.................$1,702,584

0332-6600
For the district court of Roxbury; provided, that an additional assistant clerk magistrate shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001..................................................$3,678,324

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0332-6700
For the district court of South Boston~~; provided, that four additional probation officers shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001~~..................................................$~~1,187,873~~ 1,103,541

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0332-6800
For the district court of West Roxbury; provided, that not less than $10,000 shall be expended from this item for the purposes of providing video conferencing at said district court; provided further, that one additional judicial secretary shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001~~; and provided further, that three additional probation officers shall be funded from this item in fiscal year 2001~~.........................$~~2,322,600~~ 2,259,351

0332-6900
For the central district court of Worcester; provided, that one additional head administrative assistant for operations, communications and information management shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001.............$4,292,464

0332-7000
For the district court of Fitchburg...................$1,363,447

0332-7100
For the district court of Leominster; provided, that an additional assistant clerk magistrate and an additional procedure clerk I shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001.........$1,065,044

0332-7200
For the district court of Winchendon....................$272,217

0332-7300
For the first district court of northern Worcester at Gardner............................................$1,117,131

0332-7400
For the first district court of eastern Worcester at Westborough........................................$1,098,235

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0332-7500
For the second district court of eastern Worcester at Clinton~~; provided, that an assistant chief probation officer shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001~~......................$~~785,329~~ 761,024

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0332-7600
For the district court of southern Worcester at Dudley; provided, that an additional assistant clerk magistrate shall be funded appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001~~; and provided further, that two additional probation officers shall be funded from this item in fiscal year 2001~~.............................................$~~1,297,204~~ 1,255,038

0332-7700
For the second district court of southern Worcester at Uxbridge.............................................$897,185

0332-7800
For the third district court of southern Worcester at Milford..............................................$982,014

0332-7900
For the district court of western Worcester at East Brookfield; provided, that one additional assistant clerk magistrate shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001...........................$962,754

0332-8000
For the development of an early intervention project for substance abusers at the Cambridge division of the district court department; provided, that such project shall be administered by a seven member advisory board consisting of the first justice of the Cambridge court or his designee, the clerk of the Cambridge court or his designee, the chief probation officer of the Cambridge court or his designee, the Middlesex county district attorney or his designee, the city manager of the city of Cambridge or his designee, the chief administrative justice of the trial court or his designee and one person to be appointed by the governor; and provided further, that the employment conditions of the project director and the allocation of project funds shall be determined by the executive board..................................$110,000

Probate and Family Court Department.

0333-0002
For the administrative office of the probate and family court department; 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 such backlog each month; and provided further, that those employees of the probate and family court department classified at job group 19 in the 1982 collective bargaining agreement shall be reclassified to job group 20 or its equivalent........................................$1,647,313

0333-0100
For the Barnstable probate court; provided, that one additional administrative assistant II shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001; provided further, that $63,700 shall be expended for the appointment and funding of one administrative deputy assistant register; and provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special laws to the contrary, the first justice of said court shall appoint one additional deputy assistant register to be funded from this item in fiscal year 2001......................................$1,583,377

0333-0150
For the operation of a child and parents program in the Barnstable probate court; provided, that this item 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............$90,000

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0333-0200
For the Berkshire probate court~~; provided, that one additional probation officer shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001~~...............$~~846,840~~ 825,757

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0333-0300
For the Bristol probate court~~; provided, that one additional assistant chief probation officer and three additional probation officers shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001~~..................................................$~~2,584,582~~ 2,497,028

0333-0400
For the Dukes probate court.............................$270,548

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0333-0500
For the Essex probate court; provided, that two assistant registers shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001~~; and provided further, that an additional probation officer shall be funded from this item in fiscal year 2001~~..........$~~2,507,880~~ 2,486,797

0333-0600
For the Franklin probate court..........................$811,183

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0333-0700
For the Hampden probate court; provided, that one additional deputy assistant register shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001; and provided further, that ~~one additional probation officer~~ and two additional procedure clerks shall be funded from this item in fiscal year 2001.............................................$~~2,863,282~~ 2,842,199

0333-0711
For 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.................$50,000

0333-0800
For the Hampshire probate court; provided, that one additional deputy assistant register shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001; and provided further, that one additional administrative deputy assistant register shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001....................................................$973,877

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0333-0900
For the Middlesex probate court; provided, that ~~two additional probation officers,~~ an additional sessions clerk, and an additional administrative secretary shall be funded from this item in fiscal year 2001; provided further, that two additional assistant registers shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001; and provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special laws to the contrary, the first justice of said court shall appoint four additional deputy assistant registers to be funded from this line item in fiscal year 2001..............................$~~4,852,502~~ 4,810,336

0333-0911
For the Middlesex probate court family services clinic..................................................$261,667

0333-1000
For the Nantucket probate court.........................$199,490

0333-1100
For the Norfolk probate court.........................$2,969,725

0333-1111
For the Norfolk probate court family services clinic..................................................$164,023

0333-1200
For the Plymouth probate court........................$2,283,537

0333-1300
For the Suffolk probate court; provided, that an additional assistant register shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001; and provided further, that an additional administrative assistant to be appointed by the register of probate shall be funded from this item in fiscal year 2001.............................................$3,705,956

0333-1313
For the Suffolk probate community access program of community outreach and education; provided, that said program shall be targeted at low income persons who experience educational and language barriers to court access; and provided further, that said program shall be administered by the register of probate of Suffolk county...................$198,921

0333-1400
For the Worcester probate court; provided, that one additional head administrative assistant and one additional sessions clerk shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001; and provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special laws to the contrary, the first justice of said court shall appoint one additional deputy assistant register to be funded from this item in fiscal year 2001......................................$2,753,059

0333-1411
For the Worcester probate court family services clinic..................................................$213,046

Land Court Department.

0334-0001
For the operation of the land court...................$2,574,809

Boston Municipal Court Department.

0335-0001
For the operation of the Boston municipal court; provided, that $67,000 shall be expended from this item in fiscal year 2001 to fund a legal counsel to the chief justice, so-called..........................$8,627,513

Housing Court Department.

0336-0002
For the administrative office of the housing court department..............................................$291,432

0336-0100
For the Boston housing court..........................$1,170,415

0336-0200
For the western division of the housing court...........$619,536

0336-0300
For the Worcester county housing court..................$686,993

0336-0400
For the southeastern division of the housing court; provided, that one assistant clerk magistrate and one additional administrative secretary shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001; and provided further, that an additional housing specialist shall be funded from this item in fiscal year 2001...................................$1,105,911

0336-0500
For the northeastern division of the housing court......$719,470 Juvenile Court Department. 0337-0002
For the administrative office of the juvenile court department; provided, that eight additional law clerks shall be funded from this item in fiscal year 2001.............................................$1,219,383

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0337-0003
For 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 CASA program, socalled, in the Lawrence juvenile court; provided further, that $80,000 shall be expended for the CASA program in the Worcester juvenile court; provided further, that $80,000 shall be expended for the CASA program in the Plymouth county juvenile court; provided further, that $85,000 shall be expended for the Franklin/Hampshire CASA program, including Northampton, Greenfield, Orange and Ware district courts; provided further, that $60,000 shall be expended for a Berkshire CASA program in the Berkshire county juvenile court~~; provided further, that one additional probation officer for Plymouth county shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001~~; provided further, that one additional assistant clerk magistrate for the Middlesex juvenile session at Lowell shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001; provided further, that two additional assistant clerk magistrates for the Norfolk juvenile court and one assistant clerk magistrate for the Middlesex juvenile court shall be appointed and funded from this line item in fiscal year 2001; and provided further, that one additional head procedures clerk I, one additional secretary, ~~one additional probation officer,~~ and one additional administrative assistant shall be appointed and funded for the Middlesex juvenile court in fiscal year 2001............................$~~15,884,482~~ 15,842,316

0337-0100
For the Boston juvenile court; provided, that two additional assistant clerk magistrates shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001..................................................$4,172,331

0337-0200
For the Bristol juvenile court........................$2,719,660

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0337-0300
For the Springfield juvenile court; provided, that $160,000 shall be expended for the CASA program, so-called, in the Springfield juvenile court; and provided further, that ~~two probation officers,~~ one procedures clerk I, and one assistant clerk magistrate shall be appointed and funded from this item in fiscal year 2001..............................$~~1,766,871~~ 1,724,705

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0337-0400
For the Worcester juvenile court; provided, that a probation officer shall be funded from this item for the purposes of providing outreach and coordinating services with executive branch and non-profit agencies and local school districts in fiscal year 2001......................................$~~1,495,635~~ 1,474,552

0337-0500
For the Barnstable county juvenile court located in the town of Plymouth..................................$2,109,960

Office of the Commissioner of Probation.

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
The Legislative overrode the Governor's decision
0339-1001
For the office of the commissioner of probation; provided, that said commissioner of probation, subject to the approval of the chief justice for administration and management, shall appoint any associate probation officer or probation officer-in-charge; provided further, that two additional head administrative assistants, 16 additional probation officers in charge, 13 additional associate probation officers, one additional regional supervisor, one additional chief probation officer, and one additional deputy commissioner shall be funded from this item in fiscal year 2001; provided further, that not more than $100,000 shall be expended for electronic monitoring equipment; provided further that not more than $504,092 shall be expended from this item for 2 program managers, 2 court service coordinators and 10 assistant court service coordinators for the operation of a statewide probation electronic monitoring program; and provided further, that said 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 of this act...........................$12,682,160

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0339-1002
For the superior court probation services~~; provided, that one additional chief probation officer shall be funded from this item in fiscal 2001 for juvenile justice issues in Worcester county~~................................................$~~9,731,353~~ 9,701,344

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0339-1003
For the operation of the trial court office of community corrections, including the costs of personnel; provided further, that $200,000 shall be expended in an alternative probation program honor court, so-called, in the district court of Hampshire (Northampton); provided further, that $117,837 shall be expended for seven assistant court service coordinators; provided further, that $54,670 shall be expended for two court service coordinators; provided further, that $44,169 shall be expended for two administrative assistants; provided further, that $69,028 shall be expended for two program managers; provided further, that $172,500 shall be expended on general office furnishings for Worcester juvenile and women's centers: provided further, that not less than $211,000 shall be expended for the operation of the Suffolk county courts' community service program, so-called, to be supervised by the chief justice for administration and management; and provided further, that $90,000 shall be expended for a drug treatment on demand drug offender program, socalled, in the district court of Lawrence.............$~~4,435,110~~ 3,192,508

The Governor reduced the following items to the following amount.
0339-1004
For the cost of intensive supervision and community corrections programs; provided, that said 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 said programs shall not exceed a daily average goal of 5,000 intensively-supervised probationers; provided further, that $225,000 shall be expended for the purpose of providing a community services for women program in the district court of Southern Essex; provided further, that funds from this item shall be expended to cover the costs of said programs that are undertaken and administered by court probation offices and county sheriffs' offices; provided further, that said funds shall be expended for the purpose of providing said programs in Barnstable, Berkshire, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk, and Worcester counties in fiscal year 2001; provided further, that the executive director of the office of community corrections of the trial court shall enter into interagency service agreements and memoranda of understanding with said probation offices and sheriffs' offices for the provision of said programs, including the contracting for detention space for probationers arrested for violating probation and awaiting court action and detention space for probationers who have been ordered by the trial court to be supervised at a higher level of restraint; provided further, that said agreements and memoranda shall be entered into at the direction of said executive director; provided further, that said executive director shall submit a spending and management plan for said programs to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than September 15, 2001; provided further, that said plan shall include the projected number of probationers to be served by each such program and include a description of the oversight and services provided to said probationers; and provided further, that the amount appropriated herein shall fund the annualization of such programs commenced in fiscal year 1999 pursuant to contracts established between said office and sheriffs' offices..............................................$~~12,125,000~~ 10,400,000

Office of the Jury Commissioner.

0339-2100
For the office of jury commissioner in accordance with chapter 234A of the General Laws.................$2,323,668

DISTRICT ATTORNEYS.
Suffolk District Attorney.

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 not less than $125,000 shall be expended for a North Dorchester safe neighborhood initiative, so-called, in Suffolk county; provided further, that not less than $125,000 shall be expended for a safe neighborhood initiative, so-called, in Suffolk county; provided further, that not less than $278,713 shall be expended for a community-based juvenile justice prosecution program to be administered and operated in the city of Boston and in Suffolk county for priority prosecution of serious juvenile offenders and for intervention through coordination and cooperation with local law enforcement agencies, schools, probation and court representatives and, where appropriate, the department of social services, department of youth services and department of mental health, pursuant to section 20; provided further, that said office shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1, 2001 summarizing the number and type of criminal cases managed or prosecuted by said office in calendar year 2000 and the disposition or status thereof which shall be delineated by each jurisdiction of the district, juvenile, probate or superior court in which said cases were managed or prosecuted; provided further, that said office shall submit a report detailing by case, the instances whereupon the provisions of section 70C of chapter 277 or section 2A of chapter 211D of the General Laws were applied in fiscal year 2000 and fiscal year 2001, to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1, 2001; and provided further, that no assistant district attorney shall be paid and annual salary of less than $35,000...................$14,515,670

General Fund....................................... 93.0%
Victim and Witness Assistance Fund...... 7.0%

Middlesex District Attorney.

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 not less than $341,815 shall be expended for a community-based juvenile justice prosecution program to be administered and operated in the former Middlesex county in cities which shall include, but not be limited to, Lowell, Malden, Everett, Somerville, Medford, Cambridge and Woburn for priority prosecution of serious juvenile offenders and for intervention through coordination and cooperation with local law enforcement agencies, schools, probation and court representatives and where appropriate, the department of social services, department of youth services and department of mental health, pursuant to section 20 of this act; provided further, that said office shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1, 2001 summarizing the number and type of criminal cases managed or prosecuted by said office in calendar year 2000 and the disposition or status thereof which shall be delineated by each jurisdiction of the district, juvenile, probate or superior court in which said cases were managed or prosecuted; provided further, that no assistant district attorney shall be paid an annual salary of less than $35,000; and provided further, that said office shall submit a report detailing by case, the instances whereupon the provisions of section 70C of chapter 277 or section 2A of Chapter 211D of the General Laws were applied in fiscal year 2000 and fiscal year 2001, to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1, 2001.....................................$10,627,007

General Fund........................................ 89.0%
Victim and Witness Assistance Fund..... 11.0%

Essex District Attorney.

0340-0300
For the Essex 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 not less than $156,670 shall be expended for a community-based juvenile justice prosecution program to be administered and operated in the cities of Lawrence and Lynn for priority prosecution of serious juvenile offenders and for intervention through coordination and cooperation with local law enforcement agencies, schools, probation and court representatives and, where appropriate, the department of social services, department of youth services and department of mental health, pursuant to section 20 of this act; provided further, that said office shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1, 2001 summarizing the number and type of criminal cases managed or prosecuted by said office in calendar year 2000 and the disposition or status thereof which shall be delineated by each jurisdiction of the district, juvenile, probate or superior court in which said cases were managed or prosecuted; provided further, that no assistant district attorneys shall be paid an annual salary of less than $35,000; and provided further, that said office shall submit a report detailing by case, the instances whereupon the provisions of section 70C of chapter 277 or section 2A of Chapter 211D of the General Laws were applied in fiscal year 2000 and fiscal year 2001, to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1, 2001 ......................................$7,062,004

General Fund........................................ 89.0%
Victim and Witness Assistance Fund..... 11.0%

Worcester District Attorney.

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 not less than $126,000 shall be used for an anti-gang unit, so-called; provided further, that $210,000 shall be expended for the costs associated with six-person jury sessions; provided further, that said office shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1, 2001 summarizing the number and type of criminal cases managed or prosecuted by said office in calendar year 2000 and the disposition or status thereof which shall be delineated by each jurisdiction of the district, juvenile, probate or superior court in which said cases were managed or prosecuted; provided further, that said office shall submit a report detailing by case, the instances whereupon the provisions of section 70C of chapter 277 or section 2A of chapter 211D of the General Laws were applied in fiscal year 2000 and fiscal year 2001, to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1, 2001; and provided further, that no assistant district attorney shall be paid an annual salary of less than $35,000....................$7,517,349

General Fund....................................... 92.0%
Victim and Witness Assistance Fund...... 8.0%

Hampden District Attorney.

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 not less than $268,500 shall be used for a specialized homicide trial unit; provided further, that not less than $156,421 shall be expended for a community-based juvenile justice prosecution program to be administered and operated in the cities of Holyoke and Springfield for priority prosecution of serious juvenile offenders and for intervention through coordination and cooperation with local law enforcement agencies, schools, probation and court representatives and, where appropriate, the department of social services, department of youth services and department of mental health, pursuant to section 20 of this act; provided further, that not less than $400,000 shall be expended for the continued implementation and operation of the Hampden county anti-gang project, so-called, a comprehensive, organized and strategic effort of prosecution and law enforcement officials to identify, contain and prevent the existence, operation and mobility of gangs and gang activity and to prosecute the same; provided further, that the district attorney for Hampden county shall administer and direct said project in consultation with the chiefs of police of each city and town within Hampden county, the state police, the sheriff of Hampden county and all appropriate federal law enforcement authorities; provided further, that said office shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1, 2001 summarizing the number and type of criminal cases managed or prosecuted by said office in calendar year 2000 and the disposition or status thereof which shall be delineated by each jurisdiction of the district, juvenile, probate or superior court in which said cases were managed or prosecuted; provided further, that no assistant district attorney shall be paid an annual salary of less than $35,000; and provided further, that said office shall submit a report detailing by case, the instances whereupon the provisions of section 70C of chapter 277 or section 2A of chapter 211D of the General Laws were applied in fiscal year 2000 and fiscal year 2001, to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1, 2001......................................$6,519,039

General Fund........................................ 87.0%
Victim and Witness Assistance Fund..... 13.0%

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 not less than $150,000 shall be expended for the salaries and expenses of a children's advocacy project, so-called; provided further, that said office shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1, 2001 summarizing the number and type of criminal cases managed or prosecuted by said office in calendar year 2000 and the disposition or status thereof which shall be delineated by each jurisdiction of the district, juvenile, probate or superior court in which said cases were managed or prosecuted; provided further, that no assistant district attorney shall be paid an annual salary of less than $35,000; and provided further, that said office shall submit a report detailing by case, the instances whereupon the provisions of section 70C of chapter 277 or section 2A of chapter 211D of the General Laws were applied in fiscal year 2000 and fiscal year 2001, to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1, 2001...........................$4,002,640

General Fund........................................ 86.0%
Victim and Witness Assistance Fund..... 14.0%

Norfolk District Attorney.

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 said office shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1, 2001 summarizing the number and type of criminal cases managed or prosecuted by said office in calendar year 2000 and the disposition or status thereof which shall be delineated by each jurisdiction of the district, juvenile, probate or superior court in which said cases were managed or prosecuted; provided further, that no assistant district attorney shall be paid an annual salary of less than $35,000; and provided further, that said office shall submit a report detailing by case, the instances whereupon the provisions of section 70C of chapter 277 or section 2A of chapter 211D of the General Laws were applied in fiscal year 2000 and fiscal year 2001, to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1, 2001......................................$6,984,129

General Fund....................................... 89.0%
Victim and Witness Assistance Fund..... 11.0%

Plymouth District Attorney.

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 not less than $90,437 shall be expended for a community based juvenile justice prosecution program to be administered and operated in the city of Brockton for priority prosecution of serious juvenile offenders and for intervention through coordination and cooperation with local law enforcement agencies, schools, probation and court representatives and, where appropriate, the department of social services, department of youth services and department of mental health pursuant to section 20 of this act; provided further, that said office shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1, 2001 summarizing the number and type of criminal cases managed or prosecuted by said office in calendar year 2000 and the disposition or status thereof which shall be delineated by each jurisdiction of the district, juvenile, probate or superior court in which said cases were managed or prosecuted; provided further, that no assistant district attorney shall be paid an annual salary of less than $35,000; and provided further, that said office shall submit a report detailing by case, the instances whereupon the provisions of section 70C of chapter 277 or section 2A of chapter 211D of the General Laws were applied in fiscal year 2000 and fiscal year 2001, to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1, 2001 provided further, that the Plymouth county district Attorney's office shall employ a special assistant district attorney to specialize in the investigation and prosecution of alleged criminal offenses committed by inmates in state correctional facilities, county and state houses of corrections, and jails; provided further, that interagency service agreements shall be established between the Plymouth county district attorney's office and the office of the district attorneys for Bristol, and the Cape and Islands to equally share the compensation and related expenses of said special assistant; provided further, that said special assistant shall practice only in those jurisdictions participating in said interagency service agreement and 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 herein.........$5,983,506

General Fund....................................... 88.0%
Victim and Witness Assistance Fund..... 12.0%

Bristol District Attorney.

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 further, that said office shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1, 2001 summarizing the number and type of criminal cases managed or prosecuted by said office in calendar year 2000 and the disposition or status thereof which shall be delineated by each jurisdiction of the district, juvenile, probate or superior court in which said cases were managed or prosecuted; provided further, that said office shall submit a report detailing by case, the instances whereupon the provisions of section 70C of chapter 277 or section 2A of chapter 211D of the General Laws were applied in fiscal year 2000 and fiscal year 2001, to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1, 2001; and provided further, that no assistant district attorney shall be paid an annual salary of less than $35,000.........$6,345,191

General Fund....................................... 87.0%
Victim and Witness Assistance Fund..... 13.0%

Cape and Islands District Attorney.

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 not less than $90,245 shall be expended for a community-based juvenile justice prosecution program to be administered and operated in Barnstable county for the priority prosecution of serious juvenile offenders and for intervention through coordination and cooperation with local law enforcement agencies, schools, probation and court representatives and, where appropriate, the department of social services, department of youth services and department of mental health, pursuant to section 20; provided further, that said office shall submit a report detailing by case, the instances whereupon the provisions of section 70C of chapter 277 or section 2A of chapter 211D of the General Laws were applied in fiscal year 2000 and fiscal year 2001, to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1, 2001; provided further, that not less than $20,000 shall be expended for the Cape and Islands Child Advocacy Center; and provided further, that no assistant district attorney shall be paid an annual salary of less than $35,000.........$2,898,803

General Fund........................................ 83.0%
Victim and Witness Assistance Fund..... 17.0%

Berkshire District Attorney.

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 not less than $68,386 shall be expended for a community-based juvenile justice prosecution program to be administered and operated in the county of Berkshire for priority prosecution of serious juvenile offenders and intervention through coordination and cooperation with local law enforcement agencies, schools, probation and court representatives and, where appropriate, the department of social services, department of youth services and department of mental health, pursuant to section 20 of this act; provided further, that said office shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1, 2001 summarizing the number and type of criminal cases managed or prosecuted by said office in calendar year 2000 and the disposition or status thereof which shall be delineated by each jurisdiction of the district, juvenile, probate or superior court in which said cases were managed or prosecuted; provided further, that no assistant district attorney shall be paid an annual salary of less than $35,000; and provided further, that said office shall submit a report detailing by case, the instances whereupon the provisions of section 70C of chapter 277 or section 2A of chapter 211D of the General Laws were applied in fiscal year 2000 and fiscal year 2001, to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1, 2001......................................$2,692,550

General Fund....................................... 80.0%
Victim and Witness Assistance Fund..... 20.0%

District Attorneys Association.

0340-2100
For a reserve for the implementation and related expenses of the district attorney's office automation and case management and tracking system; provided, that expenses associated with said system may be charged directly to this item; provided further, that each district attorney shall submit a report to the district attorneys association and the house and senate committees on ways and means delineating all funds expended for the purpose of implementing said case management and tracking system no later than January 1, 2001; provided further, that said 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 2001 and a detailed summary of any policies implemented to contain the costs of said network by either the Massachusetts district attorneys association or the individual district attorneys offices; and 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 herein.........$1,425,312

0340-2101
For the overtime costs of state police officers assigned to the district attorneys; provided, that no such costs associated with said officers shall be funded from item 8100-0007; provided, that not less than $290,533 shall be expended at the direction of the district attorney for the Suffolk district; provided further, that not less than $407,123 shall be expended at the direction of the district attorney for the Middlesex district; provided further, that not less than $387,660 shall be expended at the direction of the district attorney for the Essex district; provided further, that not less than $312,454 shall be expended at the direction of the district attorney for the Worcester district; provided further, that not less than $244,115 shall be expended at the direction of the district attorney for the Hampden district; provided further, that not less than $142,171 shall be expended at the direction of the district attorney for the Franklin/Hampshire district; provided further, that not less than $354,080 shall be expended at the direction of the district attorney for the Norfolk district; provided further, that not less than $269,240 shall be expended at the direction of the district attorney for the Plymouth district; provided further, that not less than $254,998 shall be expended at the direction of the district attorney for the Bristol district; provided further, that not less than $208,611 shall be expended at the direction of the district attorney for the Cape and Islands district; provided further, that not less than $78,448 shall be expended at the direction of the district attorney for the Berkshire district; and 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 herein...................................$3,606,273

Highway Fund.......................... 88.20%
Local Aid Fund......................... 9.50%
General Fund............................. 2.30%

EXECUTIVE.

0411-1000
For the offices of the governor, the lieutenant governor, and the governor's council; provided, that the amount appropriated herein maybe used at the discretion of the governor for the payment of extraordinary expenses not otherwise provided for, and may be transferred to items of appropriation where the amounts otherwise available may be insufficient; provided further, that $25,000 shall be expended for office supplies for the offices of the governor's council; and provided further, that not less than $75,000 shall be expended for a program for the promotion of preventive medicine through physical fitness and sports activities in the commonwealth to be administered by the governor's committee on physical fitness and sports, prior appropriation continued.................$5,656,001

0411-1010
For the governor's commission on mental retardation ........................................................$206,760

SECRETARY OF STATE.
Office of the Secretary of State.

0511-0000
For the operation of the office of the secretary; provided, that not less than $13,440 shall be encumbered to provide a copy of the most recent edition of the state building code, as promulgated by the board of building regulations and standards, to each community in the commonwealth; provided further, that said copies shall be mailed to one public library in each community, or to the city or town hall in communities where no public library exists; provided further, that said copies shall be available during the hours such facilities are open to the public; provided further, that said office shall submit a report detailing staffing patterns for each program operated by said office; provided further, that said report shall include, but not be limited to, actual and functional job titles by program, compensation rates and lengths of service for each employee; and provided further, that said office shall submit said report not later than February 1, 2001 to the house and senate committees on ways and means.....................................$7,091,359

0511-0001
The state secretary is hereby authorized to expend revenues not to exceed $30,000 from the sale of merchandise at the Massachusetts state house gift shop for the purpose of replenishing and restocking gift shop inventory......................................$30,000

0511-0200
For the operation of the state archives division........$559,012

0511-0230
For the operation of the records center.................$174,091

0511-0250
For the operation of the archives facility..............$608,693

0511-0260
For the operation of the commonwealth museum............$247,764

0517-0000
For the printing of public documents..................$1,205,869

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 and Worcester; provided further, that such registration and education activities may be conducted by community-based voter registration and education organizations; and provided further, that said secretary shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1, 2001 detailing the amount appropriated for the purposes of providing reimbursements for the costs of extended polling hours from this item to each city or town ............$4,968,877

0521-0001
For the operation of the central voter registration computer system; provided that a report detailing the status, remaining costs and further implementation requirements of the central voter registration system shall be submitted to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than December 1, 2001; and provided further, that an annual report detailing voter registration activity shall be submitted to the house and senate committees on ways and mean on or before February 1, 2001...............................................$4,705,566

0524-0000
For providing information to voters ..................$1,280,323

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
0526-0100
For the operation of the Massachusetts historical commission~~; provided, that $150,000 shall be expended for the Soper Memorial Fountain in the city of Taunton; provided further~~, that $125,000 shall be expended for the restoration, improvements and one public relations position for the Zeiterion Theatre~~; provided further, that $50,000 shall be expended for the historic Summer Street Fire Station in the town of Natick~~; provided further, that $146,700 shall be expended for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the Waters Farm Historic Site in the town of Sutton; provided further, that $250,000 shall be expended for a grant to the New Bedford Historical Society for capital improvements and start up costs to establish an educational program recognizing New Bedford's prominent role in the abolition movement, the underground railroad and the Nathan and Polly Johnson-Frederick Douglass house; provided further, that said organization shall collaborate with the Frederick Douglass Unity House at UMass Dartmouth; provided further, that $95,000 shall be expended for the revitalization of the historic Bandstand in the town of Shrewsbury; provided further, that $250,000 shall be expended for a matching grant for repairs to the strand theater in the city of Boston; provided further, that $60,000 shall be expended for the Toby House in the town of Wareham; provided further, that not less than $25,000 shall be expended for the Saugus Town Hall Auditorium; provided further, that $125,000 shall be expended for the restoration and improvement of the Corson building; provided further, that $1,000,000 shall be expended for the restoration of the historic Clinton fire station; provided further, that $100,000 shall be provided for the final year of state financial assistance for the Worcester women's history project; and provided further, that $25,000 shall be expended for the refurbishment of the historic Sudbury grange...........................$~~3,608,792~~ 1,698,792

0527-0100
For the operation of the ballot law commission...........$17,500

0528-0100
For the operation of the records conservation board .........................................................$34,989

0540-0000
For the purchase and installation of computer hardware and software technology for the registries of deeds; provided, that the state secretary is hereby directed to submit a spending plan on or before January 1, 2001 detailing all planned expenditures to be made from this item to the secretary of administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means; provided further, that said plan shall be developed in collaboration with the registry of deeds whose operations have been transferred to the jurisdiction of said secretary; provided further, that said plan shall detail the type and quantity of technology purchased for each registry in fiscal year 2001 and projected for fiscal year 2002 and shall include, but not be limited to, a plan to insure statewide compatibility with all other registries and users of said registries; and provided further, that no funds shall be expended or transferred from this item until said spending plan is submitted.....................................$1,260,000

0540-0900
For the registry of deeds located in Lawrence in the former county of Essex; provided, that not later than January 1, 2001, the register shall submit a final spending plan for fiscal year 2001 to the house and senate committees on ways and means, detailing the level of resources deemed necessary for the operation of said registry; provided further, that said register shall report all expenditures on the Massachusetts management accounting reporting system, so-called, in accordance with the latest expenditure classification requirements promulgated by the state comptroller pursuant of the provisions of section 27 of chapter 29 of the General Laws; provided further, that all spending plans shall be detailed by subsidiary and object code in accordance with any and all expenditure classification requirements promulgated by the comptroller; provided further, that said spending plans shall be accompanied by a delineation of all personnel employed by said registry including, but not limited to, position, title, classification, rank, grade, salary and full-time or part-time status; provided further, that said spending plans shall be accompanied by a delineation of all automated equipment owned or operated by said registry; and provided further, that said spending plan shall include the delineation of all sources of deeds excise tax revenue, including, but not limited to, the total projected collection of all deeds excise tax revenue for the end of fiscal year 2001 and the total projected deeds excise tax revenue for fiscal year 2002............................$913,350

The Governor reduced the following items to the following amount.
0540-1000
For the registry of deeds located in Salem in the former county of Essex; provided, that not later than January 1, 2001, the register shall submit a final spending plan for fiscal year 2001 to the house and senate committees on ways and means, detailing the level of resources deemed necessary for the operation of said registry; provided further, that said register shall report all expenditures on the Massachusetts management accounting reporting system, so-called, in accordance with the latest expenditure classification requirements promulgated by the state comptroller pursuant of the provisions of section 27 of chapter 29 of the General Laws; provided further, that all spending plans shall be detailed by subsidiary and object code in accordance with any and all expenditure classification requirements promulgated by the comptroller; provided further, that said spending plans shall be accompanied by a delineation of all personnel employed by said registry including, but not limited to, position, title, classification, rank, grade, salary and full-time or part-time status; provided further, that said spending plans shall be accompanied by a delineation of all automated equipment owned or operated by said registry; and provided further, that said spending plan shall include the delineation of all sources of deeds excise tax revenue, including, but not limited to, the total projected collection of all deeds excise tax revenue for the end of fiscal year 2001 and the total projected deeds excise tax revenue for fiscal year 2002..........................$~~2,766,330~~ 2,563,688

0540-1100
For the registry of deeds in the former county of Franklin provided, that not later than January 1, 2001, the register shall submit a final spending plan for fiscal year 2001 to the house and senate committees on ways and means, detailing the level of resources deemed necessary for the operation of said registry; provided further, that said register shall report all expenditures on the Massachusetts management accounting reporting system, so-called, in accordance with the latest expenditure classification requirements promulgated by the state comptroller pursuant of the provisions of section 27 of chapter 29 of the General Laws; provided further, that all spending plans shall be detailed by subsidiary and object code in accordance with any and all expenditure classification requirements promulgated by the comptroller; provided further, that said spending plans shall be accompanied by a delineation of all personnel employed by said registry including, but not limited to, position, title, classification, rank, grade, salary and full-time or part-time status; provided further, that said spending plans shall be accompanied by a delineation of all automated equipment owned or operated by said registry; and provided further, that said spending plan shall include the delineation of all sources of deeds excise tax revenue, including, but not limited to, the total projected collection of all deeds excise tax revenue for the end of fiscal year 2001 and the total projected deeds excise tax revenue for fiscal year 2002............................$563,732

0540-1200
For the registry of deeds in the former county of Hampden provided, that not later than January 1, 2001, the register shall submit a final spending plan for fiscal year 2001 to the house and senate committees on ways and means, detailing the level of resources deemed necessary for the operation of said registry; provided further, that said register shall report all expenditures on the Massachusetts management accounting reporting system, so-called, in accordance with the latest expenditure classification requirements promulgated by the state comptroller pursuant of the provisions of section 27 of chapter 29 of the General Laws; provided further, that all spending plans shall be detailed by subsidiary and object code in accordance with any and all expenditure classification requirements promulgated by the comptroller; provided further, that said spending plans shall be accompanied by a delineation of all personnel employed by said registry including, but not limited to, position, title, classification, rank, grade, salary and full-time or part-time status; provided further, that said spending plans shall be accompanied by a delineation of all automated equipment owned or operated by said registry; and provided further, that said spending plan shall include the delineation of all sources of deeds excise tax revenue, including, but not limited to, the total projected collection of all deeds excise tax revenue for the end of fiscal year 2001and the total projected deeds excise tax revenue for fiscal year 2002..........................$2,102,262

0540-1300
For the registry of deeds in the former county of Hampshire provided, that not later than January 1, 2001, the register shall submit a final spending plan for fiscal year 2001 to the house and senate committees on ways and means, detailing the level of resources deemed necessary for the operation of said registry; provided further, that said register shall report all expenditures on the Massachusetts management accounting reporting system, so-called, in accordance with the latest expenditure classification requirements promulgated by the state comptroller pursuant of the provisions of section 27 of chapter 29 of the General Laws; provided further, that all spending plans shall be detailed by subsidiary and object code in accordance with any and all expenditure classification requirements promulgated by the comptroller; provided further, that said spending plans shall be accompanied by a delineation of all personnel employed by said registry including, but not limited to, position, title, classification, rank, grade, salary and full-time or part-time status; provided further, that said spending plans shall be accompanied by a delineation of all automated equipment owned or operated by said registry; and provided further, that said spending plan shall include the delineation of all sources of deeds excise tax revenue, including, but not limited to, the total projected collection of all deeds excise tax revenue for the end of fiscal year 2001 and the total projected deeds excise tax revenue for fiscal year 2002............................$614,169

0540-1400
For the registry of deeds located in Lowell in the former county of Middlesex provided, that not later than January 1, 2001, the register shall submit a final spending plan for fiscal year 2001 to the house and senate committees on ways and means, detailing the level of resources deemed necessary for the operation of said registry; provided further, that said register shall report all expenditures on the Massachusetts management accounting reporting system, so-called, in accordance with the latest expenditure classification requirements promulgated by the state comptroller pursuant of the provisions of section 27 of chapter 29 of the General Laws; provided further, that all spending plans shall be detailed by subsidiary and object code in accordance with any and all expenditure classification requirements promulgated by the comptroller; provided further, that said spending plans shall be accompanied by a delineation of all personnel employed by said registry including, but not limited to, position, title, classification, rank, grade, salary and full-time or part-time status; provided further, that said spending plans shall be accompanied by a delineation of all automated equipment owned or operated by said registry; and provided further, that said spending plan shall include the delineation of all sources of deeds excise tax revenue, including, but not limited to, the total projected collection of all deeds excise tax revenue for the end of fiscal year 2001 and the total projected deeds excise tax revenue for fiscal year 2002..........................$1,372,587

0540-1500
For the registry of deeds located in Cambridge in the former county of Middlesex provided, that not later than January 1, 2001, the register shall submit a final spending plan for fiscal year 2001 to the house and senate committees on ways and means, detailing the level of resources deemed necessary for the operation of said registry; provided further, that said register shall report all expenditures on the Massachusetts management accounting reporting system, so-called, in accordance with the latest expenditure classification requirements promulgated by the state comptroller pursuant of the provisions of section 27 of chapter 29 of the General Laws; provided further, that all spending plans shall be detailed by subsidiary and object code in accordance with any and all expenditure classification requirements promulgated by the comptroller; provided further, that said spending plans shall be accompanied by a delineation of all personnel employed by said registry including, but not limited to, position, title, classification, rank, grade, salary and full-time or part-time status; provided further, that said spending plans shall be accompanied by a delineation of all automated equipment owned or operated by said registry; and provided further, that said spending plan shall include the delineation of all sources of deeds excise tax revenue, including, but not limited to, the total projected collection of all deeds excise tax revenue for the end of fiscal year 2001 and the total projected deeds excise tax revenue for fiscal year 2002..........................$3,579,430

0540-1600
For the registry of deeds located in Adams in the former county of Berkshire provided, that not later than January 1, 2001, the register shall submit a final spending plan for fiscal year 2001 to the house and senate committees on ways and means, detailing the level of resources deemed necessary for the operation of said registry; provided further, that said register shall report all expenditures on the Massachusetts management accounting reporting system, so-called, in accordance with the latest expenditure classification requirements promulgated by the state comptroller pursuant of the provisions of section 27 of chapter 29 of the General Laws; provided further, that all spending plans shall be detailed by subsidiary and object code in accordance with any and all expenditure classification requirements promulgated by the comptroller; provided further, that said spending plans shall be accompanied by a delineation of all personnel employed by said registry including, but not limited to, position, title, classification, rank, grade, salary and full-time or part-time status; provided further, that said spending plans shall be accompanied by a delineation of all automated equipment owned or operated by said registry; and provided further, that said spending plan shall include the delineation of all sources of deeds excise tax revenue, including, but not limited to, the total projected collection of all deeds excise tax revenue for the end of fiscal year 2001and the total projected deeds excise tax revenue for fiscal year 2002...........................$342,481

0540-1700
For the registry of deeds located in Pittsfield in the former county of Berkshire provided, that not later than January 1, 2001, the register shall submit a final spending plan for fiscal year 2001 to the house and senate committees on ways and means, detailing the level of resources deemed necessary for the operation of said registry; provided further, that said register shall report all expenditures on the Massachusetts management accounting reporting system, so-called, in accordance with the latest expenditure classification requirements promulgated by the state comptroller pursuant of the provisions of section 27 of chapter 29 of the General Laws; provided further, that all spending plans shall be detailed by subsidiary and object code in accordance with any and all expenditure classification requirements promulgated by the comptroller; provided further, that said spending plans shall be accompanied by a delineation of all personnel employed by said registry including, but not limited to, position, title, classification, rank, grade, salary and full-time or part-time status; provided further, that said spending plans shall be accompanied by a delineation of all automated equipment owned or operated by said registry; and provided further, that said spending plan shall include the delineation of all sources of deeds excise tax revenue, including, but not limited to, the total projected collection of all deeds excise tax revenue for the end of fiscal year 2001 and total projected deeds excise tax revenue for fiscal year 2002....................................$532,950

0540-1800
For the registry of deeds located in Great Barrington in the former county of Berkshire provided, that not later than January 1, 2001, the register shall submit a final spending plan for fiscal year 2001 to the house and senate committees on ways and means, detailing the level of resources deemed necessary for the operation of said registry; provided further, that said register shall report all expenditures on the Massachusetts management accounting reporting system, so-called, in accordance with the latest expenditure classification requirements promulgated by the state comptroller pursuant of the provisions of section 27 of chapter 29 of the General Laws; provided further, that shall spending plans shall be detailed by subsidiary and object code in accordance with any and all expenditure classification requirements promulgated by the comptroller; provided further, that said spending plans shall be accompanied by a delineation of all personnel employed by said registry including, but not limited to, position, title, classification, rank, grade, salary and full-time or part-time status; provided further, that said spending plans shall be accompanied by a delineation of all automated equipment owned or operated by said registry; and provided further, that said spending plan shall include the delineation of all sources of deeds excise tax revenue, including, but not limited to, the total projected collection of all deeds excise tax revenue for the end of fiscal year 2001 and the total projected deeds excise tax revenue for fiscal year 2002............................$244,780

0540-1900
For the registry of deeds in the former county of Suffolk provided, that not later than January 1, 2001, the register shall submit a final spending plan for fiscal year 2001 to the house and senate committees on ways and means, detailing the level of resources deemed necessary for the operation of said registry; provided further, that said register shall report all expenditures on the Massachusetts management accounting reporting system, so-called, in accordance with the latest expenditure classification requirements promulgated by the state comptroller pursuant of the provisions of section 27 of chapter 29 of the General Laws; provided further, that all spending plans shall be detailed by subsidiary and object code in accordance with any and all expenditure classification requirements promulgated by the comptroller; provided further, that said spending plans shall be accompanied by a delineation of all personnel employed by said registry including, but not limited to, position, title, classification, rank, grade, salary and full-time or part-time status; provided further, that said spending plans shall be accompanied by a delineation of all automated equipment owned or operated by said registry; and provided further, that said spending plan shall include the delineation of all sources of deeds excise tax revenue, including, but not limited to, the total projected collection of all deeds excise tax revenue for the end of fiscal year 2001 and the total projected deeds excise tax revenue for fiscal year 2002..........................$2,213,471

0540-2000
For the registry of deeds located in Fitchburg in the former county of Worcester provided, that not later than January 1, 2001, the register shall submit a final spending plan for fiscal year 2001 to the house and senate committees on ways and means, detailing the level of resources deemed necessary for the operation of said registry; provided further, that said register shall report all expenditures on the Massachusetts management accounting reporting system, so-called, in accordance with the latest expenditure classification requirements promulgated by the state comptroller pursuant of the provisions of section 27 of chapter 29 of the General Laws; provided further, that all spending plans shall be detailed by subsidiary and object code in accordance with any and all expenditure classification requirements promulgated by the comptroller; provided further, that said spending plans shall be accompanied by a delineation of all personnel employed by said registry including, but not limited to, position, title, classification, rank, grade, salary and full-time or part-time status; provided further, that said spending plans shall be accompanied by a delineation of all automated equipment owned or operated by said registry; and provided further, that said spending plan shall include the delineation of all sources of deeds excise tax revenue, including, but not limited to, the total projected collection of all deeds excise tax revenue for the end of fiscal year 2001 and the total projected deeds excise tax revenue for fiscal year 2002............................$527,174

0540-2100
For the registry of deeds located in the city of Worcester in the former county of Worcester provided, that not later than January 1, 2001, the register shall submit a final spending plan for fiscal year 2001 to the house and senate committees on ways and means, detailing the level of resources deemed necessary for the operation of said registry; provided further, that said register shall report all expenditures on the Massachusetts management accounting reporting system, so-called, in accordance with the latest expenditure classification requirements promulgated by the state comptroller pursuant of the provisions of section 27 of chapter 29 of the General Laws; provided further, that all spending plans shall be detailed by subsidiary and object code in accordance with any and all expenditure classification requirements promulgated by the comptroller; provided further, that said spending plans shall be accompanied by a delineation of all personnel employed by said registry including, but not limited to, position, title, classification, rank, grade, salary and full-time or part-time status; provided further, that said spending plans shall be accompanied by a delineation of all automated equipment owned or operated by said registry; and provided further, that said spending plan shall include the delineation of all sources of deeds excise tax revenue, including, but not limited to, the total projected collection of all deeds excise tax revenue for the end of fiscal year 2001and the total projected deeds excise tax revenue for fiscal year 2002..........................$2,381,363

TREASURER AND RECEIVER-GENERAL.
Office of the Treasurer and Receiver-General.

0610-0000
For the office of the treasurer and receivergeneral; provided, that the treasurer shall provide computer services required by the teachers' retirement board; provided further, that to the extent that bank fees, so-called, exceed the amount appropriated in item 0610-0100, the treasurer is authorized, subject to an allocation plan filed in advance with the house and senate committees on ways and means, to transfer from this item to said item, an amount sufficient to ensure full payment of said bank fees.....................................$7,791,345

General Fund........................... 50.0%
Local Aid Fund......................... 40.0%
Highway Fund........................... 10.0%

0610-0100
For the payment of bank fees; provided, that the treasurer may transfer funds from this item to 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............................$5,300,000

General Fund........................... 50.0%
Local Aid Fund......................... 40.0%
Highway Fund........................... 10.0%

0610-1500
For tuition payments as required by section 12B of chapter 76 of the General Laws, notwithstanding the provisions of chapter 29 of the General Laws to the contrary; provided, that the state treasurer may expend in anticipation of revenue such amounts as are necessary to meet such payments; and provided further, that the state treasurer shall deduct the amount expended from this account from items 7061- 0008 and 0611-5500 and from the amounts specified in section 3, in accordance with the provisions of said section 12B of said chapter 76. 0611-1000 For bonus payments to war veterans.......................$17,500

0611-5500
For additional assistance to cities and towns to be distributed according to the provisions of section 3 and for assistance to certain public entities of the commonwealth which have constructed water pollution abatement facilities; provided, that said distribution to said public entities shall equal $1,249,948..............................$477,565,230

Local Aid Fund........................ 100.0%

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 .....................................................$18,000,000

Local Aid Fund........................ 100.0%

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.................$1,605,752 Local Aid Fund........................ 100.0% Pension Benefits. 0612-0105 For payment of the public safety employee killedin- line-of-duty benefit authorized by section 100A of chapter 32 of the General Laws.......................$500,000

Local Aid Fund........................ 100.0%

0612-1010
For the Commonwealth's Pension Liability Fund established under section 22 of chapter 32 of the General Laws; provided, that the amount appropriated herein shall constitute the first payment of an 18 year funding schedule for the commonwealth's unfunded pension liability except as may be provided by section 440; provided further, that the amount appropriated herein shall meet the commonwealth's obligations under section 22C of said chapter 32, including retirement benefits payable by the state employees' and the state teachers' retirement systems, for the costs associated with a three per cent cost-of-living adjustment pursuant to the provisions of section 102 of said chapter 32, the reimbursement of local retirement systems for previously authorized costof- living adjustments pursuant to section 102 of said chapter 32, and for the costs of increased survivor benefits pursuant to chapter 389 of the acts of 1984; provided further, that subject to the rules and regulations promulgated by the treasurer, the state retirement board and each city, town, county and district shall verify the cost thereof and the treasurer shall be authorized to make such payments upon a transfer of funds as hereinafter provided, to reimburse certain cities and towns for pensions to retired teachers and including any other obligations which the commonwealth has assumed on behalf of any retirement system other than the state employees' or state teachers' retirement systems and including the commonwealth's share of the amounts to be appropriated pursuant to section 22B of said chapter 32 and the amounts to be appropriated pursuant to subsection (a) of the last paragraph of section 21 of chapter 138 of the General Laws; provided further, that all payments for the purposes herein described shall be made only pursuant to distribution of monies from said fund; provided further, that any such distribution and the payments for which distributions are required shall be detailed in a written report filed quarterly by the commissioner of administration with the house and senate committees on ways and means and the joint committee on public service in advance of such distribution; provided further, that such distributions shall not be made in advance of the date on which any payment is actually to be made; provided further, that the state retirement board is authorized to expend an amount for the purposes of the higher education coordinating council's optional retirement program pursuant to section 40 of chapter 15A of the General Laws; provided further, that except where authorized herein, no funds shall be expended from this item, other than deposits to the Commonwealth's Pension Liability Fund; and provided further, that to the extent that the amount appropriated herein exceeds the amount necessary to adequately fund this item, said excess amount shall be credited to the pension reserve investment trust fund of the commonwealth for the purpose of reducing the unfunded pension liability of the commonwealth........................................$922,050,000

Local Aid Fund................................ 59.00%
General Fund................................... 33.90%
Highway Fund.................................... 7.00%
Inland Fisheries and Game Fund......... 0.10%

0612-1508
For a pension liability reserve for the sole purpose of supplementing the amount appropriated in item 0612-1010, notwithstanding the provisions of section 22C of chapter 32 of the General Laws; and provided further, that no funds shall be expended from this item, other than deposits to the Commonwealth's Pension Liability Fund...............$100,000,000

0612-2000
For retirement benefits authorized pursuant to chapters 712 and 721 of the acts of 1981, chapter 154 of the acts of 1983, chapter 67 of the acts of 1988, and chapter 621 of the acts of 1989, for the compensation of veterans who may be retired by the state board of retirement, including individuals formerly in the service of the division of employment security whose compensation for such service was paid in full from a grant from the federal government and for the cost of medical examinations in connection therewith, for pensions of retired judges or their widows or widowers, for retirement allowances of certain employees formerly in the service of the administrative division of the metropolitan district commission, for retirement allowances of certain veterans and police officers formerly in the service of the metropolitan district commission, for retirement allowances of certain veterans formerly in the service of the metropolitan sewerage district, for retirement allowances of certain veterans formerly in the service of the metropolitan water system and for annuities for widows or widowers of certain former members of the uniformed branch of the state police...............................................$19,433,757

General Fund.......................... 82.20%
Highway Fund.......................... 17.80%

Commission on Firefighters' Relief.

0620-0000
For financial assistance to injured firefighters..........$9,808

Local Aid Fund........................ 100.0%

Emergency Finance Board.

0630-0000
For the operation of the emergency finance board; provided, that notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, no employee of the department of revenue shall receive any reimbursement for services from this item............$69,421

Local Aid Fund........................ 100.0%

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 positions funded by this item shall not be subject to chapters 30 and 31 of the General Laws; provided further, that $9,036,917 shall be allocated to the telecommunication leaseto- purchase costs associated with the replacement of the commission's computer system; provided further, that 25 per cent of the amount appropriated herein shall be transferred quarterly from the State Lottery Fund to the general fund; and provided further, that up to $3,600,000 shall be allocated for costs associated with replacing, repairing and upgrading lottery ticket vending machines.............................................$70,195,594

0640-0005
For the costs associated with the continued implementation of the game of keno, so-called; 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 herein shall be transferred quarterly from the State Lottery Fund to the general fund.......$1,380,546

0640-0010
For the promotional activities associated with the state lottery program; provided, that such promotional expenses shall be limited to point-ofsale promotions and agent newsletters; 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.........$400,000

0640-0096
For the purpose of the commonwealth's fiscal year 2001 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, AFL-CIO; provided, that said contributions shall be paid to said trust fund on such basis as said collective bargaining agreement provides; 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.........$311,948

Massachusetts Cultural Council.

0640-0300
For the services and operations of the council; including grants to or contracts with public and non-public entities; provided, that notwithstanding the provisions of 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 such amounts and at such times as the council may determine pursuant to section 54 of said chapter 10; 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 such schoolchildren; provided further, that $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 such organizations and said assistance shall be in the form of challenge grants to said organizations; provided further, that in order to receive such grants a cultural organization must raise an amount at least equal to the amount of the grant for said organization's endowment; provided further, that funds provided by such 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 no grant made under this program shall exceed $100,000; and provided further, that persons employed under this item shall be considered employees within the meaning of section 1 of chapter 150E of the General Laws and shall be placed in the appropriate bargaining units.....................................$14,170,608

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........................................$3,329,850

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 payments on bonds issued pursuant to section 2 O 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 the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary or the provisions of this item, the comptroller is hereby authorized to charge the payments authorized herein to the appropriate budgetary or other fund subject to a plan which the comptroller shall file ten 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............................$1,312,052,000

General Fund..................................... 56.34%
Highway Fund................................... 31.93%
Local Aid Fund.................................. 11.39%
Watershed Management Fund.............. 0.34%

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....................................$45,000,000

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 such costs among the various funds of the commonwealth; provided further, that the comptroller shall charge such costs to such funds in accordance with such schedule; and provided further, that any deficit in this item at the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001 shall be charged to the various funds or to the general fund or highway fund debt service reserves.....................................$16,250,000

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, as amended, an amount to be used to pay the interest due on notes of the commonwealth issued pursuant to section 9 of said chapter 11, as amended, and secured by the Federal Highway Grant Anticipation Note Trust Fund...$62,042,000

0699-9200
For certain debt service contract assistance to the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency in accordance with chapter 23G of the General Laws......$13,285,138

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 the provisions of sections 52 to 55, inclusive, of chapter 7 of the General Laws and shared oversight of the central artery and third harbor tunnel project; provided, that a report shall be submitted to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than September 30, 2000 delineating the privatization contracts reviewed and monitored during fiscal year 2000; and provided further, that such report shall further detail the number of full-time equivalent positions assigned by said office for the review of each of the aforementioned privatization contracts...........................................$14,754,231

0710-0100
For the operation of the division of local mandates ........................................................$732,968

Local Aid Fund........................ 100.0%

ATTORNEY GENERAL.
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 the provisions of chapters 258B and 258C of the General Laws; provided further, that the attorney general shall submit to the general court and the secretary of 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 funds may be expended for an amount up to $250,000 for a grants program for the safe neighborhood initiative-jobs for youth program; provided further, that an additional $250,000 shall be expended from the funds appropriated herein for a safe neighborhood initiative pilot program in the Bowdoin/Geneva area, so-called, of Dorchester; provided further, that a health care policy unit shall be established for the purposes of coordination, enhancement and expansion of current health care policy enforcement efforts for the benefit of the public interest; and provided further, that the public proceedings unit shall review the water rate increases................$21,633,622

General Fund..................................... 92.74%
Local Aid Fund.................................... 3.91%
Anti-Trust Law Enforcement Fund........ 1.98%
Victim and Witness Assistance Fund..... 0.88%
Safe Drinking Water Act Fund.............. 0.49%

0810-0003
For the operation of a child protection unit, so-called..................................................$ 250,000

0810-0004
For compensation to victims of violent crimes; provided, that notwithstanding the provisions of 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, such 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 such claimant shall be limited to a maximum of $50; and provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions of 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 258A of the General Laws..............................$2,200,000

General Fund.......................... 78.21%
Victim and Witness Assistance Fund.... 21.79%

0810-0007
For the overtime costs of state police officers assigned to the attorney general; provided, that no such costs associated with said officers shall be funded from item 8100-0007; and 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 herein...........$603,151

Highway Fund.......................... 88.20%
Local Aid Fund......................... 9.50%
General Fund........................... 2.30%

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 notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the amount assessed to said unit shall be equal to the amount expended from this item...............................$1,469,796

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 said section; provided, that the assessment levied for such expense shall be credited to the general fund.......$75,000 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 such 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 said department's division of health care quality responsible for such investigations on a periodic basis pursuant to a comprehensive training program to be developed by the division and said unit; and provided further, that such 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.....$1,836,486

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 the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, any non-management position funded by this item shall be deemed a job title in a collective bargaining unit as prescribed by the labor relations commission and shall be subject to the provisions of chapter 150E of the General Laws....$3,286,832 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 herein may be used to supplement the automobile insurance fraud unit and the workers' compensation fraud unit of the office of the attorney general....................$1,458,382

0810-0338
For the investigation and prosecution of automobile insurance fraud; provided, that notwithstanding the provisions of 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 $285,882................................................$285,882

0810-0399
For the investigation and prosecution of workers' compensation fraud; provided, that notwithstanding the provisions of 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 $285,882; provided further, that the attorney general is hereby authorized and directed to 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 said unit shall investigate and report on all companies not in compliance with chapter 152 of the General Laws......$285,882

Commission on Uniform State Laws.

0830-0100
For the commission on uniform state laws.................$34,400

Victim Witness Assistance Board.

0840-0100
For the operation of the Massachusetts office for victim assistance.......................................$361,595

Victim and Witness Assistance Fund.... 100.0%

0840-0101
For the safeplan advocacy program; provided that the amount allocated herein shall be expended on the salaries and employee benefits of safeplan advocates and regional coordinators, including the advocates in the Hampshire probate and family court and the Northampton and Ware district courts; provided, that $37,000 from said program shall be made available to the Massachusetts office for victim assistance to administer the program; provided further, that said office shall submit to the house and senate committees on ways and means on or before February 3, 2001 a report detailing the effectiveness of contracting for said program including, but not limited to, the number and types of incidents to which such advocates responded, the types of service and service referrals provided by such domestic violence advocates, the cost of providing such services and the extent of coordination with other service providers and state agencies................................................$479,325

STATE ETHICS COMMISSION.

0900-0100
For the operation of the state ethics commission...........$1,473,550

General Fund.......................... 50.0%
Local Aid Fund........................ 50.0%

OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL.

0910-0200
For the operation of the office of the inspector general...............................................$2,317,000

0910-0210
The office of the inspector general is hereby authorized to expend revenues collected up to a maximum of $300,000 from the fees charged to participants in the Massachusetts public purchasing official certification program and the certified public manager program for the operation of said 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 payments amounts not to exceed the lower of this authorization or the most recent revenue estimate as reported in the state accounting system..............$300,000

0910-0220
The office of the inspector general is hereby authorized to expend revenues collected up to a maximum of $100,000 from the fees charged to participants in a training and certification program to provide construction professionals with a sound foundation for careers in the commonwealth's construction agencies; provided, that said program may include, but is not limited to, instruction on construction delivery methods such as design/build, construction management techniques such as partnering and relevant procedures such as public contracts, procurement, capital funding, public bidding, estimating, scheduling and cost management; provided further, that the office of inspector general shall consult on said program with the commonwealth construction committee, so-called, representing, but not limited to, the executive office for administration and finance, the department of highways, the division of capital asset management and maintenance, the department of housing and community development and the executive office of environmental affairs; and provided further, 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 payments amounts not to exceed the lower of this authorization or the most recent revenue estimate as reported in the state accounting system..............$100,000

OFFICE OF CAMPAIGN AND POLITICAL FINANCE.

0920-0300
For the operation of the office of campaign and political finance.....................................$1,089,292

General Fund........................... 50.0%
Local Aid Fund......................... 50.0%

0950-0000
For the commission on the status of women...............$195,000

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, 2001 in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles; provided, that the office of the comptroller shall charge other items of appropriation for the cost of said 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 $525,000 to other items of appropriation for the cost of said 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 credited to and expended from this 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 nontax revenue unit which shall operate under policies and procedures developed in conjunction with the secretary of administration and finance; and 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...........$8,189,841

General Fund.......................... 93.81%
Revenue Maximization Fund.............. 6.19%

1000-0004
The office of the comptroller is hereby authorized and directed to expend an amount not to exceed $2,000 from fees collected from vendors who participate in training on statewide financial systems including, but not limited to, the Massachusetts management accounting and reporting system; provided, that said office is hereby further authorized and directed to provide such training, to offer sessions to vendors who do business with the commonwealth and to establish and charge a reasonable fee for such training.................$2,000

EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE.
Office of the Secretary.

1100-1100
For the office of the secretary.......................$1,217,440

1100-1120
For the foundation budget review commission, so called, as set forth in section 4 of chapter 70 of the General Laws.........................................$50,000

Office of Dispute Resolution.

1100-1103
For the operation of the office of dispute resolution..............................................$471,852

1100-1104
The office of dispute resolution is hereby authorized to expend an amount not to exceed $150,000 in revenues collected from fees charged to cities, towns or public instrumentalities, and other political subdivisions of the commonwealth or to corporations and individuals for the costs of mediation and related services; provided, that for the purpose of accommodating discrepancies between the receipt of retained revenues and related expenditures, the office of dispute resolution 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 cost of personnel.........................$150,000

Central Business Office.

1100-1140
For the operation of the central business office; provided, that said office shall quantify office expenditures which shall be reduced through shared contracts, bulk purchasing and other centralized procurement savings programs for the agencies served by said office; and provided further, that documentation of said expenditures and any resulting savings shall be submitted to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than December 1, 2000.................................$1,996,400

Massachusetts Corporation For Educational Telecommunications.

1100-1400
For a payment to the Massachusetts corporation for educational telecommunications; provided, that said corporation shall submit a spending plan which details the total actual and projected expenditures and revenues for fiscal year 2001; provided further, that said spending plan shall be detailed by subsidiary and object code in accordance with any and all expenditure classification requirements promulgated by the comptroller; and provided further, that said report and said spending plan shall be filed with the house and senate committees on ways and means no later than December 1, 2000......$3,677,000

State House Physician.

1100-2600
For the emergency services and expenses of a physician, and for medical supplies in the state house, including the purchase of equipment in connection therewith; provided, that section 21 of chapter 30 of the General Laws shall not apply to the payments made under this item, prior appropriation continued..................................$26,170

Fiscal Affairs Division.

1101-2100
For the administration of the fiscal affairs division, including costs associated with a capital budgeting program; provided, that charges for the cost of computer resources and services provided by the information technology division for the design, development and production of reports and information required to be included in budgets submitted by the governor to the legislature shall not be charged to this item...........................$2,156,968

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 $6,500,000 in revenues collected from rentals, commissions, fees, parking fees and any and all other sources pertaining to the operations of said center; provided, that the building manager selected by said division shall make such expenditures on behalf of said division pursuant to the provisions of section 2AA of chapter 29 of the General Laws; and provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, and for the purpose of accommodating discrepancies between the receipt of retained revenues and related expenditures, said 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 therefor as reported in the state accounting system.....................................$6,500,000

State Building Management Fund........ 100.0%

1102-3206
For the costs associated with the maintenance and security of surplus state properties, so-called; provided, that not more than $100,000 shall be expended for basic maintenance and security needs of the state buildings at Medfield State Hospital.....$1,013,685

1102-3210
For the operation of the division of capital asset management and maintenance including directing, controlling, supervising, planning and overseeing the scheduled maintenance and repair needs of capital assets owned by the commonwealth; provided, that said division shall file quarterly reports with the house and senate committees on ways and means detailing all amounts expended on bond-funded capital projects under the jurisdiction of said division, and for all administrative and personnel expenses of said division charged to said bonds; provided further, that all such amounts so reported shall be detailed by object code; provided further, that said reports shall be filed not later than 30 days after the end of each quarter; provided further, that a regional position within the division to be housed in the Springfield state office building is created to work on issues and projects in Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden and Hampshire counties; provided further, that the costs of personnel associated with the comprehensive capital assets maintenance system, to be known as CCAMS and established pursuant to section 317 of chapter 127 of the acts of 1999, shall not annualize to an amount greater than $450,000 as appropriated in item 1102-1992 of section 2A of chapter 55 of the acts of 1999; provided further, that said division shall submit a monthly report to the house and senate committees on ways and means detailing all projects funded from item 1102-7977 of section 2E of chapter 88 of the acts of 1997, item 1102-3210 of sectin 2 of chapter 194 of the acts of 1998 and item 1102-3204 of section 2 of chapter 127 of the acts of 1999; provided further, that said monthly report shall include, but not be limited to, the name and location of each project, the estimated commencement and completion date of each project, the total amount that will be allocated for each project, the amount expended for each project, the amount obligated for each project, and the projected annual expenditures for each project; provided further, that said division shall conduct a study of the costs and benefits to taxpayers associated with relocating state agencies to office space outside of the city of Boston to the extent possible; provided further, that said study shall include, but not be limited to, a comparison of space rental costs in the city of Boston to space rental costs in at least five other metropolitan communities at least three of which must be over 25 miles from said city; provided further, that said study shall also examine the feasibility of redeveloping surplus state properties to house state agencies; and provided further, that $25,000 shall be expended by said division to conduct a study to determine the costs and benefits of structural updates, including the best possible recreational and community use for the MDC building and the State Police barracks located on Soldiers' Field road in Brighton................................$5,932,225

1102-3214
For the state transportation building; provided, that the division may expend revenues collected up to a maximum of $6,700,000 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; provided further, that the building manager selected by said division shall make such expenditures on behalf of said division pursuant to the provisions of section 2AA of chapter 29 of the General Laws; 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...............................$6,700,000

State Building Management Fund........ 100.0%

1102-3231
For the Springfield state office building; provided, that the division may expend revenues collected up to a maximum of $750,000 from rents charged to agencies occupying said building for the maintenance and operation of said building, pursuant to the provisions of section 2AA of chapter 29 of the General Laws; and provided further, that for the purpose of accommodating discrepancies between the receipt of retained revenues and related expenditures, said 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

State Building Management Fund........ 100.0%

1102-9999
For the costs associated with the removal of asbestos; provided, that an amount shall be expended for asbestos removal at Greenfield Community College based on the priority needs and estimated costs of asbestos removal at said site consistent with the amount appropriated herein; provided further, that not more than $8,200 will be expended for a one-time payment to the elementary school district of the town of Norfolk for asbestos removal; provided further, that $100,000 will be expended for the removal of asbestos at Plymouth county hospital; and provided further, that any additional revenues deposited to the asbestos cost recovery fund may be expended, for the purpose of this item, without further appropriation, prior appropriation continued.................................$925,000

Asbestos Cost Recovery Fund........... 100.0%

Bureau of State Office Buildings.

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
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 said bureau shall retain full jurisdiction over all contracts, purchases and payments for any and all materials and services required in the operation of said bureau; provided further, that said bureau shall report to the house and senate committees on ways and means detailing the costs, savings and implementation requirements of a rent and routine maintenance intragovernmental chargeback, no later than September 1, 2000; provided further, that not less than $200,000 shall be made available for cleaning and maintenance services of the Lindemann mental health center~~; provided further, that not less than $200,000 shall be made available for the restoration and preservation of the historic flags displayed in the state house hall of flags~~; provided further, that not less than $90,000 shall be made available for the Massachusetts art commission; provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions of section 19 of chapter 6 of the General Laws, the chairman of said commission shall serve as executive director of said project and shall be compensated therefor from said $90,000; provided further, that not more than $120,000 shall be expended to improve cleaning in the west wing of the state house; provided further, that not more than $50,000 shall be expended for an all-purpose lift; provided further, that not more than $60,000 shall be expended to upgrade snow removal and garden equipment; provided further, that not more than $45,000 shall be expended to replace chairs in the gardner auditorium in the state house; provided further, that not more than $80,000 shall be expended to replace the carpet in said auditorium; provided further, that not more than $200,000 shall be expended to complete the memorial hall of flags project, so-called; provided further, that not more than $250,000 shall be expended to increase the use of electronic security devices in garages and parking areas; provided further, that not more than $60,000 shall be expended to replace radio communication systems~~; and provided further, that not less than $60,000 shall be expended to wash windows, including windows at the state house~~.........$~~9,875,166~~ 9,121,627

The Governor reduced the following items to the following amount.
1102-3302
For the purposes of utility costs and associated contracts for the properties managed by the bureau of state office buildings.............................$~~5,886,831~~ 5,812,331

Office on Disability.

1107-2400
For the office on disability; provided, that not less than $50,000 of the amount appropriated herein shall be expended for arts programs for people with disabilities, including, but not limited to, festivals, training and education through the arts......$741,355

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, so-called; 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 said 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; provided further, that not less than $17,094 shall be made available for the job reclassification of employees of the commission; 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....$1,686,445

Civil Service Commission.

1108-1011
For the civil service commission; provided, that said commission shall submit to the house and senate committees on ways and means a report detailing the number of backlog cases that were settled from 1999 to 2001 not later than February 1, 2001.................................................$586,730

Local Aid Fund......................... 65.0%
General Fund........................... 35.0%

Group Insurance Commission.

The Governor reduced the following items to the following amount.
1108-5100
For the administration of the group insurance commission; provided, that said 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; provided, that not more than $150,000 of the amount appropriated herein shall be expended for the design of a dental and vision benefit plan for retirees pursuant to section 411..................$~~2,473,231~~ 2,416,441

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
The Legislative overrode the Governor's decision
1108-5200
For the commonwealth's share of the group insurance premium and plan costs incurred in fiscal year 2001; provided, that not more than $300,000 shall be obligated for the evaluation and audit of said premium and plan costs; provided further, that not more than $300,000 shall be obligated for the evaluation and negotiation of premium rates, which may include rates for health benefit plans, prescription drug plans and long-term disability plans; provided further, that not more than $150,000 shall be obligated for claims utilization analysis; provided further, that the secretary of administration and finance shall charge the division of employment and training 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 the state indemnity health insurance plan and the preferred provider organization 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 said 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 is authorized and directed to 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 one year; provided further, that the amounts received in payment for said charges shall be credited to the general fund; provided further, that, notwithstanding the provisions of section 26 of chapter 29 of the General Laws, the commission is hereby authorized to negotiate, purchase and execute contracts prior to July 1 of each year for policies of group insurance as authorized by chapter 32A of the General Laws; provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions of chapter 150E of the General Laws and as provided in section 8 of said chapter 32A and for the purposes of section 14 of said chapter 32A, the commonwealth's share of the group insurance premium for state employees who have retired prior to 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 commission shall provide the number of retirees for whom the commonwealth pays said 85 per cent to the house and senate committees on ways and means by February 1 of each year; provided further, that the commonwealth's share of such premiums for active state employees shall be 85 per cent of said premiums and rates; provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions of chapter 150E of the General Laws, retirees of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and of regional transit authorities shall continue to pay the same percentage, if any, of the health insurance premium that they paid on June 1, 1994; provided further, that active employees of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and of regional transit authorities shall pay 15 per cent of such premiums and rates; and provided further, that the commission shall notify the house and senate committees on ways and means by February 15 of each year of the cost of the commonwealth's projected share of group insurance premiums for the next fiscal year.........................................$614,020,978

1108-5350
For elderly governmental retired employee premium payments..............................................$1,264,977

1108-5400
For the costs of the retired municipal teachers' premiums and the audit of said premiums..............$29,759,616

Local Aid Fund........................ 100.0%

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
1108-5500
For the costs, notwithstanding the provisions of 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 such benefits pursuant to a separate appropriation or the provisions of a contract or collective bargaining agreement; provided, that said employees shall pay 15 per cent of the monthly premium established by the commission for such benefits; and provided further, that the commission shall expend all necessary funds from this item to ensure that all dental and vision benefits shall be at least at the level in effect on June 30, 1998.........$~~5,668,831~~ 5,013,831

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.....................................$737,729

George Fingold Library.

1120-4005
For the administration of the library; provided, that said library shall maintain regular hours of operation from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; provided further, that said library shall develop an internship program with any Massachusetts public or private college or university that offers, as of the effective date of this act, advanced studies in library and information science; and provided further, that said library shall continue the implementation program necessary in order to secure access to the wide area network.......................$1,331,493

Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.

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 July 1, 1993 and cases pending before said commission in which the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is named as a respondent; provided further, that no less than $750,000 shall be expended in fiscal year 2001 for full-time equivalent investigators, attorneys, conciliators and hearing officers and contracted personnel as required for the exclusive purpose of reducing the backlog of cases pending before said commission; provided further, that said commission shall comply with the requirements of section 446 of this act; provided further, that on or before October 1, 2000 said commission shall submit to the senate and house committees on ways and means a report on the total number of all currently pending cases and the total number of such cases in the investigation, conciliation, post-probable cause and pre-public hearing and post-hearing stages; provided further, that the commission shall file an update of such report with said committees on or before March 1, 2001; provided further, that said commission shall identify in such reports the number of cases in which the commission has determined there is probable cause to believe that a violation of the provisions of chapter 151B of the General Laws has been committed in a case in which said authority is named as a respondent; provided further, that said commission shall report to the house and senate committees on ways and means on or before January 4, 2001 the number of cases pending before the commission in which a state agency or state authority is named as a respondent and the number of such cases in which probable cause to believe that a violation of the provisions of said chapter 151B has been committed; provided further, that an amount not to exceed $15,000 may be expended to fund Edward Brooke scholarships, whereby the recipients of said scholarships assist said commission in resolving cases filed on or before July 1, 1993; provided further, that the commission may expend ..................................... $100,000

For the sole purpose of supporting the civil rights enforcement efforts of cities and towns through their local human rights commissions; provided further, that such efforts shall include, but not be limited to, the following cities and towns: Amherst, Barnstable, Boston, Cambridge, Chelsea, Lawrence, Malden, Melrose, New Bedford, Northampton, Pittsfield, Somerville, Springfield and Worcester; provided further, that funds made available herein shall be in addition to funds available in item 1150-5104; provided further, that all positions, except clerical, shall be exempt from the provisions of chapter 31 of the General Laws; and provided further, that said commission shall pursue the highest allowable rate of federal reimbursement.......$2,524,960

1150-5104
The Massachusetts commission against discrimination is hereby authorized to expend 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 2001 and federal reimbursements received for these and other programs in prior years; provided, that for the purposes of accommodating discrepancies between the receipt of retained revenues and related expenditures, said 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; provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions of section 1 or any other general or special law to the contrary, federal reimbursements received in excess of $1,813,344 shall be credited to the general fund; provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, funds may be expended from this item for the purposes of case investigations, conciliation and resolution efforts of local agencies as provided by contract through the commission; provided further, that such efforts shall include, but not be limited to, the following cities and towns: Worcester, New Bedford, Somerville, Chelsea, Cambridge and Barnstable; provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the commission shall deposit into the General Fund any federal reimbursements received for these purposes in fiscal year 2001; 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, the following: federal reimbursements received in each such quarter, anticipated reimbursements to be received in the remaining quarters of the fiscal year and reimbursements projected to be collected in the subsequent fiscal year for such purposes; provided further, that such report shall detail actual and anticipated reimbursements by date of receipt, case type, reimbursement per case and cases resolved; and provided further, that the costs of personnel may be charged to this item...........................$1,813,344

1150-5116
The Massachusetts commission against discrimination is hereby authorized to expend an amount not to exceed $27,500 from revenues collected from fees charged for the training and certification of diversity trainers for the operation of the discrimination prevention certification program..........$27,500

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, and Worcester; and provided further, that the department shall provide to the general court access to the municipal data bank................................................$124,973,168

General Fund........................... 60.0%
Local Aid Fund......................... 35.0%
Highway Fund............................ 5.0%

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 such agencies are hereby authorized to expend said funds for the purposes of this item; provided further, that all such allocations shall be reported quarterly to the house and senate committees on ways and means upon the allocation of said 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 said 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, so-called; 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 the department shall file a performance report with the house and senate committees on ways and means on or before January 15, 2001 detailing current staffing levels by function and performance indicators, including, but not limited to, TAFDC and non-TAFDC caseloads, collection levels, court cases, paternities established, court orders established, average employee workload, federal reimbursements, projections of said indicators for the remainder of the fiscal year and any deviations of current performance from previous projections................$46,418,716

General Fund...................................... 96.80%
Child Support Fines and Penalties Fund. 3.20%

1201-0300
For the operation of the bureau of special investigations; provided, that the director of said bureau shall report to the house and senate committees on ways and means no later than December 15, 2000 on the monthly investigator caseload, without disclosing names or other personal identifiers, for fiscal years 1994 through 2000; provided further, that said report shall include the monthly average of the amounts recovered by the commonwealth through successful prosecution, settlement or other disposition of such cases investigated for fiscal years 1994 through 2000; provided further, that said report shall separately delineate said caseload data for the front-end detection program so-called; and provided further, that said report shall state the most recent activity date for each open case assigned to each investigator as of the first business day of each fiscal quarter of fiscal years 2000 and 2001 for which such information is available.........................$5,110,282

1231-1000
For the Commonwealth Sewer Rate Relief Fund established by section 2Z of chapter 29 of the General Laws.........................................$53,914,000

Local Aid Fund........................ 100.0%

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 said 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 said program; provided further, that the department and said third parties shall take all steps necessary to minimize said program's administrative costs; provided further, that said 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.................................................$19,200,000

Underground Storage Tank Petroleum Product Cleanup Fund........ 100.0%

1232-0200
For the underground storage tank petroleum cleanup fund administrative review board pursuant to chapter 21J of the General Laws and for the administration of the underground storage tank program associated with the implementation of chapter 21J of the General Laws; provided, that notwithstanding the provisions of section 4 of said chapter 21J or any other general or special law to the contrary, appropriations made herein shall be sufficient to cover said administrative expenses of the underground storage tank program; provided further, that said 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 said report shall detail how many tanks are out of compliance with the provisions of said chapter 21J; and provided further, that said report shall be submitted not later than February 16, 2001.........................$1,612,846

Underground Storage Tank Petroleum Product Cleanup Fund........ 100.0%

1232-0300
For underground storage tank municipal grants to remove and replace said tanks pursuant to section 2 of chapter 21J of the General Laws and section 37A of chapter 148 of the General Laws....................$2,000,000

Underground Storage Tank Petroleum Product Cleanup Fund........ 100.0%

1233-2000
For reimbursing cities and towns for taxes abated pursuant to the seventeenth, twenty-second, twentysecond A, twenty-second B, twenty-second C, twentysecond E and thirty-seventh clauses of section 5 of chapter 59 of the General Laws........................$8,250,000

Local Aid Fund........................ 100.0%

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 forty-first, forty-first B and forty-first C clauses of section 5 of chapter 59 of the General Laws; provided, that the commonwealth shall reimburse each city or town that accepts the provisions of said clause forty-first B or clause forty-first C for additional costs incurred in determining eligibility of applicants under said clauses in an amount not to exceed $2 per exemption granted..............................................$12,400,000

Local Aid Fund........................ 100.0%

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; provided further, that said board shall report to the house and senate committees on ways and means on the number of hearings held at said locations.......................$1,890,707

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 all such payments shall be consistent with the purposes of the trust instrument for "A Hero's Welcome Trust Fund"....................................................$18,000

A Hero's Welcome Trust Fund........... 100.0%

1410-0010
For the operation of the office of veterans' services provided, that not less than $10,000 shall be obligated for a contract with the Korean war veterans committee of Massachusetts for the purpose of maintaining the Massachusetts Korean war memorial located in the shipyard park of the Charlestown navy yard; provided further, that $40,000 shall be obligated for the Glory 54th Brigade; and provided further, that said office shall fund a housing specialist from this item........$2,248,722 1410-0012 For services to veterans, including the maintenance and operation of outreach centers; provided, that said 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 $269,500 shall be obligated for a contract with the Veterans Benefits Clearinghouse in the Roxbury section of the city of Boston; provided further, that $82,500 shall be obligated for a contract with the Veterans Northeast Outreach Center in the city of Haverhill; provided further, that $125,000 shall be obligated for a contract with the North Shore Veterans Counseling Center in the city of Beverly; provided further, that $100,000 shall be obligated for a contract with the Veterans Association of Bristol county in the city of Fall River; provided further, that $110,000 shall be obligated for a contract with NamVets of the Cape and Islands in the town of Hyannis; provided further, that $100,000 shall be obligated for a contract with the Outreach Center, Inc., in the city of Pittsfield; provided further, that $197,200 shall be obligated for a contract with the Montachusett Veterans Outreach Center in the city of Gardner; provided further, that $95,000 shall be obligated for a contract with the Metrowest/Metrosouth Outreach Center in the town of Framingham; and provided further, that $66,000 shall be obligated for a contract with the Puerto Rican Veterans Association of Massachusetts, Inc., in the city of Springfield............................$1,178,842

Local Aid Fund........................ 100.0%

1410-0015
For the women veterans' outreach program.................$40,000

1410-0018
The department is hereby authorized to expend for the maintenance and operation of Agawam veterans' cemetery an amount not to exceed $150,000 from revenue collected from fees, grants, gifts, or other contributions to said cemetery....................$150,000

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 care and home health services................................................$126,183

1410-0250
For homelessness services, including the maintenance and operation of homeless shelters and transitional housing for veterans; provided, that not less than $337,740 shall be obligated for a contract with the central Massachusetts shelter for homeless veterans located in the city of Worcester; provided further, that not less than $391,550 shall be obligated for a contract with the southeastern Massachusetts veterans housing program, Inc. located in the city of New Bedford; provided further, that $111,500 shall be obligated for a contract with the veterans benefit clearinghouse located in Dorchester; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be obligated for a contract with unity house located in the city of Gardner; provided further, that not less than $31,500 shall be obligated for a contract with the transition house located in the city of Springfield; provided further, that no less than $57,750 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 $49,875 shall be obligated for a contract with the mansion located in the city of Haverhill; provided further, that not less than $31,500 shall be obligated for a contract with the homestead located in the town of Hyannis; provided further, that not less than $120,000 shall be obligated for a contract with the veterans hospice homestead in the city of Leominster; provided further that no less than $25,000 shall be obligated for a contract with the turner house located in the town of Williamstown; provided further, that $81,500 shall be obligated for a contract with the veterans benefit clearinghouse located in Roxbury; and provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be obligated for a contract with habitat P. L. U. S. in the city of Lynn and provided further, that no less than $48,000 shall be obligated for a contract with the Chapin Mansion/Soldiers' Home in the city of Holyoke for homeless veterans care.................$1,485,915

1410-0251
For homelessness services, including 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....................................$2,550,000

1410-0300
For the payment of annuities to certain disabled veterans and the parents and un-remarried spouses of certain deceased veterans; provided, that such 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; and provided further, that the commissioner of veteran's 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...................................$8,576,000

1410-0400
For reimbursing cities and towns for money paid for veterans' benefits and for payments to certain veterans; provided, that said reimbursements shall be made pursuant to section 6 of chapter 115 of the General Laws; provided further, 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; and provided further, that the commissioner shall establish a training program for veterans' agents pursuant to section 407 of this act...............................$9,138,590

Local Aid Fund........................ 100.0%

1410-0623
For a payment to the POW/MIA Eternal Flame Foundation, Inc. for the POW/MIA Eternal Flame to be erected on the Congress street side of Boston City Hall, facing the Freedom Trail, so-called; provided, that the funds appropriated herein shall be used to match a $50,000 contribution made by the Ingersoll Browne Fund, so-called, to the POW/MIA Eternal Flame Foundation, Inc...........................$100,000

1410-0630
For the administration of the veterans' cemeteries in the towns of Agawam and Winchendon...................$514,597 Reserves. 1599-0002 For contributions toward the maintenance of the old provincial state house...................................$75,000

1599-0006
For reimbursement of the city of Boston for interest on bonds or notes in anticipation thereof issued under the authority of section 7 of chapter 152 of the acts of 1997...............................$2,721,106

Boston Convention and Exhibition Center Fund............ 100.0%

1599-0007
For the payment of interest and principal on bonds of the commonwealth or notes in anticipation thereof issued under the authority of section 11 of chapter 152 of the acts of 1997......................$13,000,000

Boston Convention and Exhibition Center Fund............ 100.0%

1599-0013
For a reserve for the cities' and towns' unemployment health insurance contributions due under section 14G of chapter 151A of the General Laws; provided, that the deputy director of the division of employment and training shall provide to the secretary of administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means quarterly estimates of the contributions due; and provided further, that upon approval of the secretary of administration and finance, the treasurer shall transfer funds from this account to the Medical Security Trust Fund established by subsection (k) of said section 14G of said chapter 151A..........................................$3,000,000

Local Aid Fund........................ 100.0%

The Governor disapproved this section.
1599-0019
For a reserve for costs related to education reform audits; provided, that the comptroller shall transfer not more than $1,000,000 to item 7061-0019 to fund full time equivalent personnel not currently funded in said items; and provided further, that not less than 20 days prior to the transfer of funds from this item to item 7061-0019, the department of education shall submit to the house and senate committees on ways and means a report which delineates for each position to be funded through such transfer the following information: a detailed job description; the associated job posting, so-called; the anticipated start date and position number, so-called; the anticipated number of weeks during fiscal year 2001 during which such position will be filled; and the annualized salary.....................................$1,000,000

1599-0033
For a reserve to promote departmental revenue optimization projects authorized by and subject to the provisions of section 455 of this act.............$2,000,000

Revenue Maximization Fund............. 100.0%

1599-0035
For certain debt service contract assistance to the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority in accordance with section 39I of chapter 190 of the acts of 1982; provided, that said assistance shall be expended notwithstanding section 35J of chapter 10 of the General Laws...............................$24,645,279

1599-0036
For the expenses of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority.....................................$15,799,501

Tourism Fund.......................... 100.0%

1599-0039 For a reserve for the purpose of the Upper Cape Water Supply commission so-called; provided that the secretary of administration and finance shall condition the release of funds appropriated herein upon passage of legislation creating said commission; provided further, that said commission shall develop a long term management plan for the protections of the water supply and wildlife habitat in the area formerly known as the Massachusetts Military Reservation, which allows for military training in said area......................$250,000

1599-0041
For the expenses of the commission on end of life care as established by section 480 of this act..........$100,000

1599-0042
For a reserve to improve the educational quality of the commonwealth's child care system by supporting child care programs that emphasize high quality early language and literacy development for children and their families; provided, that the office of child care services in coordination with the department of education, shall develop standards and curricula for early language and literacy development programs; provided further, that payments from said reserve shall be limited to providers that have established or commit to establishing said early learning and literacy programs; and provided further, that said office shall use said reserve to increase child care rates of reimbursement or to provide stipends for the professional development of child care staff.........$12,500,000

Child Care Fund....................... 100.0%

The Governor disapproved the wording as indicated below.
1599-0043
For a reserve to adjust early child care and education rates of reimbursement paid by the office of child care services; provided, that said adjustment shall be targeted at increasing salaries and compensation and providing stipends for professional development to help recruit and retain qualified staff~~; provided further, that the rates of reimbursement paid to each provider be adjusted by the same percentage across the commonwealth~~.......$12,500,000

Child Care Fund....................... 100.0%

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...............................................$5,500,000

1599-0093
For contract assistance to the water pollution abatement trust for debt service obligations of the trust, in accordance with the provisions of sections 6 and 6A of chapter 29C of the General Laws.................................................$38,236,449

Local Aid Fund........................ 100.0%

1599-0100
For a reserve for the operation of the division of medical assistance; provided, that no funds appropriated herein shall be expended until the secretary of administration and finance has certified to the senate and house committees on ways and means that the division has submitted a report to said committees detailing: projected final expenditures for fiscal year 2001 and 2002 for items 1599-0100, 1599-0111, 4000-0300, 4000- 0310, 4000-0325, 4000-0430, 4000-0450, 4000-0500, 4000-0600, 4000-0700, 4000-0860, 4000-0870, 4000- 0880, 4000-0866, 4000-0890, 4000-0891, 4000-0892, 4000-1400, 4000-1450, 4000-1451, 4000-1500, and 4000-1504; provided further, that in identifying said final expenditures, said report shall account for any and all assumptions used to project promulgated or projected changes in provider payment rates, average per-member-per-month expenditure amounts, and the methods utilized to estimate current and prospective beneficiary enrollment and benefit utilization trend; provided further, that said report shall detail by item of appropriation any updates or budgetary revisions made subsequent to the Governor's budget submission for fiscal year 2002 recommendations, including, but not limited to, any assumptions used to develop said recommendations; provided further, that said report shall be submitted not later than February 15, 2001; provided further, that any and all funds appropriated herein shall be expressly scheduled and expended in and from the AA subsidiary; and provided further, that all expenditures from this item shall be made for the purposes of item 4000-0300.............................................$9,463,108

General Fund................................................................................... 85.84%
Children's and Seniors' Health Care Assistance Fund....................... 14.16%

1599-0111
For the purposes of conducting an extensive study of the costs associated with upgrading, adjusting, or replacing the non-personnel information technology systems of the division of medical assistance; provided, that said division shall contract with an independent, non-public consultant or entity to conduct said study; provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, said division shall not contract with any consultant or entity previously procured to perform any function related to the division's information technology systems, but that said consultant or entity shall be significantly experienced with such information technology systems; provided further, that said study shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (1) a detailed account of the costs associated with a complete upgrade and replacement of the division's information technology systems, including, but not limited to, the central automated vendor payment system, the medicaid management information system, so-called, and the recipient eligibility verification system, MA21, so-called; (2) an itemized account of the staffing and any other resources required to operate the aforementioned systems in-house, so-called; (3) an itemized account of the staffing required to perform expedited eligibility determinations and redeterminations and the upgrades needed to improve such process; (4) a detailed account of the hardware and software needed to automate the budget development, tracking, and processes for the purpose of making timely projections and accurate forecasts of medicaid expenditures and beneficiary enrollment; (5) the costs and technical requirements of complying with the billing and payment mandates of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. 42 USC 201; and (6) any actions taken by the division to improve the efficiency of using information technology division services; and provided further, that said study shall be submitted to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than May 31, 2001..........................................$1,000,000

General Fund................................................................................. 85.84%
Children's and Seniors' Health Care Assistance Fund...................... 14.16%

The Governor disapproved this section.
1599-0540
For the costs of purchasing and installing information technology hardware and software for the registries of deeds; provided, that funds appropriated herein may be transferred to item 0540-0000 for said purchase and installation; provided further, that $164,550 shall be expended for the Salem registry; provided further, that $5,000 shall be expended for the Franklin registry; provided further, that $117,904 shall be expended for the Hampden registry; provided further, that $32,546 shall be expended for the Hampshire registry; provided further, that not less than 30 days prior to any such projected transfer of funds, the secretary of the commonwealth shall submit a spending plan to the secretary of administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means detailing all projected expenditures from the amounts to be so transferred including, but not limited to, the specifications and costs of the information technology hardware and software projected to be purchased, the plan for allocating such hardware and software to the various registries of deeds, the costs and nature of cabling and installing local and wide area networks at each such registry, and a description of the systems architecture for such equipment that maximizes inter-registry communication and data transmission capabilities; provided further, that said secretary shall include in said spending plan a report projecting the costs and design of a fully automated system for managing the functions of the registries of deeds statewide, including both registries under the ownership of the commonwealth and under the ownership of the remaining counties; provided further, that said report shall fully detail the installation timetable of said fully automated system with specific completion milestones, projected capital, personnel and other operating costs at each registry and a technical description of the technology necessary to implement such a fully automated system; provided further, that the information technology division shall be consulted in the preparation of said report and shall certify to the feasibility and projected costs of said fully automated system; provided further, that no funds shall be expended or transferred from this item until said spending plan and report are filed with the secretary of administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means. . ........................$320,000

1599-0615
For a one-time reserve for the state racing commission for personnel related costs associated with the oversight and monitoring of the transition and continuing development of the racing industry in the commonwealth.....................................$116,350

1599-1970
For a reserve for the Massachusetts turnpike authority for costs incurred in fiscal year 2000

For the operation and maintenance of the central artery/tunnel project pursuant to the provisions of chapter 235 of the acts of 1998.......................$2,500,0001

1599-3234
For the commonwealth's south Essex sewerage district debt service assessment........................$108,492

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 fiscal year 2001 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; and provided further, that the comptroller may transfer up to $2,000,000 from this item to the Liability Management and Reduction Fund established by section 2TT of chapter 29 of the General Laws.........$6,500,000

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 said municipalities and other eligible borrowers after January 1, 1992, 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, and which have been completed, as determined by said department, on or prior to the promulgation date of said department's regulations related to the implementation of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, so-called........................................$8,000,000

Local Aid Fund........................ 100.0%

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 said department's regulations related to the implementation of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, so-called............$1,689,865

Local Aid Fund........................ 100.0%

1599-3856
For rent and associated costs at the Massachusetts information technology center in Chelsea..............$7,115,000

State Building Management Fund........ 100.0%

1599-4050
For a reserve for the special commission established pursuant to section 481

For the evaluation of regulatory and licensure requirements in the contracting of state-funded human and social services programs; provided, that said funding shall be made available for the contracting of an independent auditor who shall assist said commission in quantifying the fiscal impact of the current regulatory and licensure system.................$100,000

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount, disapproved the wording as indicated and inserted in place there of the following wording below.
1599-6899
For a reserve to adjust the wages, compensation or salary and associated employee-related costs to personnel ~~earning less than $39,000~~ earning less than $25,000 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 the secretary of administration and finance is hereby authorized to allocate the funds appropriated herein to said departments in order to implement said initiative; provided further, that the operational services division shall condition the expenditure of such reserve upon assurances that such funds shall be used solely for the purposes of such adjustments to wages, compensation or salary; provided further, that said division 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 such adjustment in fiscal year 2001 and the average percentage adjustment funded by this reserve; provided further, that said 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 such adjustments; provided further, that said adjustment shall be calculated based on the first $30,000 of annual compensation; provided further, that such adjustments shall be not less than a full 3 per cent for workers earning less than $20,000 in annual compensation and shall not be reduced by the expenses of such associated employee-related costs and withholding; provided further, that no funds from this item shall be allocated to special education programs under chapter 71B of the General Laws, contracts for child care services or programs for which payment rates are negotiated and paid as class rates, socalled, 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 2001 cost of salary adjustments and any other associated employee costs authorized thereunder ~~shall not exceed $25,000,000~~ shall not exceed $15,000,000; and provided further, that the annualized cost of said adjustments in fiscal year 2002 shall not exceed the amount appropriated herein................$~~25,000,000~~ 15,000,000

1599-7014
For a reserve for the costs of the Star Store, socalled, at the University of Massachusetts and Bristol Community College; provided, that $300,000 shall be expended for one-time costs associated with the facility.....................................$1,700,000

1599-7016
For a reserve to meet the costs in fiscal year 2001 of salary increases, benefit adjustments and other employee economic benefits authorized for those 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; 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 so-called, who would otherwise be covered by collective bargaining agreements in effect for fiscal year 2001 and to meet the costs of providing equal salary adjustments and 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; provided further, that the secretary of administration and finance is hereby authorized to transfer from the sum appropriated herein to other items of appropriation and allocations thereof for fiscal year 2001 such amounts as may be necessary to meet the costs of 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....$12,435,019

1599-9150
For a reserve to implement the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority forward funding initiative, so-called; provided, that funds appropriated herein shall be expended for the amortization of debt or deficiencies incurred by or on behalf of said authority prior to July 1, 2000 pursuant to a schedule to be determined by the comptroller..........................................$27,500,000

Highway Fund.......................... 100.0%

1599-9952
For the purpose of contracting independent technical advisors to assist communities in evaluating and contributing to the Central Artery/Ted Williams Tunnel Project, including the Charles river crossing; provided, that the executive office for administration and finance may issue a request for proposals for such technical advisor, said contract to be drafted in conjunction with designated representatives from the impacted neighborhoods; provided, that $100,000 shall be expended from this item for a technical advisor to the North End/Waterfront area of the city of Boston and $40,000 shall be expended for a technical advisor for the East Boston section of the city of Boston; provided further, that said technical advisors shall have access to data relative to design and mitigation; and provided further, that said advisors shall be accountable to and work directly with residents, designated community representatives and organizations of the aforementioned communities in assessing impacts and recommending alternative design modifications to the Central Artery/Ted Williams Tunnel, prior appropriation continued.................................$140,000

Highway Fund.......................... 100.0%

Division of Human Resources.

1750-0100
For the operation of the human resources division; provided, 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 the provisions of paragraph (n) of section 5 of chapter 31 of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, the commissioner of administration shall charge a fee of $35 to be collected from each applicant for a civil service examination; provided further, that no funds shall be obligated for purposes of executive search programs except any executive search program which may be conducted pursuant to Executive Order 227 adopted on February 25, 1983; 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 upon certification of any open competitive list for a public safety position in a city or town, the personnel administrator shall cause to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in a city or town, public notice that such eligible list has been certified along with the notice of the last date to respond to the notice of circulation; provided further, that the secretary of 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; and provided further, that the nature and scope of economic proposals contained in said 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............................................................................$5,129,039

1750-0102
The human resources division may expend revenues up to a maximum of $1,883,857 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 said division shall collect from participating non-state agencies, political subdivisions, and the general public fees sufficient to cover all costs of said programs, including, but not limited, a fee of $35 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 the provisions of 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................................................$1,883,857

1750-0111
For the planning and implementation of a civil service continuous testing 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 said program........$339,346

Local Aid Fund......................... 65.0%
General Fund........................... 35.0%

1750-0115
For the operation of the bypass appeals process program; provided, that the division shall report annually to the house and senate committees on ways and means on the number of appeals requested through said program, the number of appeals granted through said program and the number of appeals resulting in the hiring of the appellant................$195,602

1750-0116
The division is hereby authorized to expend an amount not to exceed $165,750

For the operation of the continuous testing program, so-called, from fees charged to participants in said program; provided, that for the purpose of accommodating discrepancies between the receipts of retained revenues and related expenditures, the division 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 as reported in the state accounting system..............$165,750

1750-0119
For payment of workers' compensation benefits to certain former employees of Middlesex and Worcester counties; provided, that the division shall routinely re-certify said former employees pursuant to current workers' compensation procedures..............$72,600

1750-0120
For the costs of administration, training, and customer support related to the commonwealth's human resources and compensation management system, so-called.............................................$1,512,000

1750-0200
For implementation of the medical and physical fitness standards program established pursuant to sections 61A and 61B of chapter 31 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; provided further, that the human resources division shall submit a semi-annual report to the house and senate committees on ways and means detailing all expenditures on said program including, but not limited to, the costs of personnel, consultants, administration of the wellness program, establishment of standards and any other related costs of said program; and provided further, that said division shall report to the house and senate committees on ways and means by February 1, 2001 on the projected costs of said program for fiscal year 2001..................................................$1,189,463

1750-0300
For the commonwealth's contributions in fiscal year 2001 to health and welfare funds established pursuant to certain collective bargaining agreements; provided, that such contributions shall be calculated as provided in the applicable collective bargaining agreement and shall be paid to such health and welfare trust funds on a monthly basis or on such other basis as the applicable collective bargaining agreement provides.............$17,936,866

1750-3873
For the statewide training and career ladders programs for employees in positions covered by the collective bargaining agreements between the commonwealth and the National Association of Government Employees (Units 1, 3 and 6).................$462,000

1750-3898
For the purposes of a statewide training and career ladder program pursuant to subsection A of section 8 of article XIX of the collective bargaining agreement between the commonwealth and the Massachusetts Corrective Officers Federated Union (unit 4)..........................................$151,000

Division of Operational Services.

1775-0100
For the operation of the operational services division; provided, that the commissioner of administration shall ensure that adequate resources are provided from this item for the maintenance of the government center medical unit at the same level as in fiscal year 2000..........................$3,279,006

1775-0110
The operational services division may expend for the costs associated with the Comm-PASS computer system, so-called, an amount not to exceed $249,999 from revenues collected from the use of Comm-PASS by government entities other than state agencies and the sale of advertising space on Comm-PASS..........$249,999

1775-0600
The operational services division may expend revenues collected up to a maximum of $130,000 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................$130,000

1775-0700
The operational services division may expend revenues collected up to a maximum of $130,000 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.............$130,000

1775-0900
The operational services division may expend revenues in an amount not to exceed $100,000, 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 ........................................................$100,000

1775-1100
The operational services division may expend revenues in an amount not to exceed $1,194,866 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; 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.............................................$1,194,866

Information Technology Division.

1790-0100
For the operation of the information technology division; provided, that said division shall continue a chargeback system for its bureau of computer services which complies with the requirements of section 2B; provided further, that said 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 15, 2001 with actual and projected savings and expenditures for said audits in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001; and provided further, that the state comptroller shall establish accounts and procedures as he deems appropriate and necessary to assist in accomplishing the purposes of this item.....$9,681,317

1790-0107
For the operation of the commonwealth's human resources and compensation management system, socalled................................................$ 8,300,000

1790-0300 The information technology division may expend up to a maximum of $587,376 in 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...............................................$587,376

1790-0600
For the operation of the commonwealth's data warehouse...............................................$978,777

EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS.
Office of the Secretary.

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
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 program, and a central data processing center for the secretariat; provided, that not less than $180,000 shall be expended for conservation districts; provided further, that not less than $250,000 shall be expended for volunteer monitoring grants; provided further, that not less than $200,000 shall be expended on a program of coastal resources monitoring and restoration focusing on all coastal regions of the commonwealth; provided further, that said program shall include technical assistance through the Massachusetts Bays Program, so-called~~; provided further, that $75,000 shall be expended as a matching grant to the Mattapoisett river valley authority~~; provided further, that the secretary of the executive office of environmental affairs is hereby authorized to enter into interagency agreements with any line agency within said secretariat whereby the line agency may render data processing services to said secretary; provided further, that the comptroller is hereby authorized to 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 department shall conduct a study to determine the costs of repairing and maintaining the seawalls of the commonwealth; provided further, that said study shall be submitted to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than April 2, 2001; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended for the formation of a technical advisory group to conduct a coastal monitoring study in Salem Sound to investigate declining fish and lobster populations in Salem Sound; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for a coastal shore water testing program administered by the coalition for Buzzards Bay; provided further, that $125,000 shall be expended on the implementation of the second phase of Vision 2020; and provided further, that not less than $1,250,000 shall be expended for the implementation of the Watershed initiative........$~~4,184,002~~ 3,834,002

General Fund........................... 60.0%
Local Aid Fund......................... 40.0%

2000-0106
For space rental costs associated with the departments within the executive office, including the secretariat of environmental affairs, the department of environmental management, the department of fisheries, wildlife and environmental law enforcement and the department of food and agriculture ...........................................$3,619,801

General Fund.......................... 99.43%
Inland Fisheries and Game Fund......... 0.57%

2000-9900
For the office of geographic and environmental information established pursuant to section 4B of chapter 21A of the General Laws.........................$455,677

2001-1001
The secretary of environmental affairs may expend an amount not to exceed $93,721 accrued from fees charged to authorities and units of government within the commonwealth, other than state agencies, for the distribution of digital cartographic and other data, and the review of environmental notification forms pursuant to the Massachusetts environmental policy act, for the purposes of providing said services..................................$93,721

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
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, that not less than $125,000 shall be made available to the city of Boston for the purpose of awarding grants to one or more existing innovative recycling programs to increase recycling rates by enhancing the collection and processing of plastic wastes; provided further, that the sum of $250,000 shall be appropriated to E-Call, Inc., a non-profit organization, to assist in the implementation and improvement of recycle-related programs and to improve access to recycling programs; provided further, that not less then $1,250,000 shall be expended on municipal equipment grants; provided further, that $250,000 shall be allocated to WasteCap of Massachusetts, a non-profit organization, for the operation of business waste and recycling programs, including grants to public and non-public entities; provided further, that not less than $350,000 shall be appropriated from this item to Massachusetts non-profit organizations responsible for solid waste management innovative programs that develop or enhance the infrastructure for recycling, composting, reuse or reduction of solid hazardous waste; provided further, that not less than $2,525,000 shall be expended on municipal recycling incentives; provided further, that the department of environmental protection may expend an amount not to exceed $1,375,000
For a program to preserve the continuing ability of redemption centers to maintain operations in pursuit of the commonwealth's recycling goals consistent with the provisions of section 323 of chapter 94 of the General Laws; provided further, that for the purposes of this section 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 such program shall take into consideration the volume of redeemables per redemption center, the length of time such center has been in operation, the number of returnables redeemed quarterly by such centers, the submission by such centers of documentation of their redeemed returnables to said department, and the costs of transportation, packing, storage and labor; provided further, that said department shall make recommendations to the general court concerning said costs by January 3, 2001; and provided further, that not less than $500,000 of the amount appropriated herein shall be expended for a recycling industry reimbursement program pursuant to section 241A of chapter 43 of the acts of 1997.....$~~9,020,000~~ 8,770,000

2020-0100
For toxics use reduction technical assistance and technology, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 21I of the General Laws.......................$1,838,935

Toxics Use Reduction Fund............. 100.0%

2060-0100
For the purpose of implementing the management plan adopted pursuant to section 12 of chapter 111H of the General Laws and for carrying out the powers and duties conferred to the program by said chapter 111H; provided, that a report shall be submitted to the house and senate committees on ways and means on or before November 1, 2000 detailing expenditures from the prior year; and provided further, that no money shall be expended from this item after November 1, 2000 until such report has been filed with the house and senate committees on ways and means..........................................$224,050

Low Level Radioactive Waste Management Fund....................... 100.0%

Department of Environmental Management.

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount, disapproved the wording as indicated and inserted in place there of the following wording below.
The Legislative overrode the Governor's decision
2100-0005
For the department of environmental management pursuant to the purposes of section 10A1/2 of chapter 91 of the General Laws; provided, that not less then $206,250 shall be made available for repairs to the Snow's Pond Dam in the town of Ware; provided further, that not less then $400,000 shall be made available for a dredging project for West Island; provided further, that $100,000 shall be made available for the dredging of the Pine Tree Brook from Blue Hills to the Neponset River; provided further, that not more than $250,000 shall be expended for repairs to War Memorial Park Dam; provided further, that $10,000 shall be expended for vegetation mitigation at Cobbs pond in Walpole; provided further, that $375,000 shall be expended for the dredging of Weir River; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended for repairs to the dam at Forge pond in the town of East Bridgewater; provided further, that not less than $76,000 shall be expended for the repairs at Blood pond dam in the town of Hopkinton; provided further, that $330,000 shall be provided for the dredging and clean-up of Hardy pond; provided further, that not less than $300,000 shall be expended for completing renovation to a pier in the town of Salisbury; provided further, that not less than $25,000 shall be allocated to the town of Upton for the repair of Pratt Pond dam; provided further, that not less than $175,000 shall be expended for an aquifer storm water discharge program in the town of Franklin; provided further, that not less than $60,000 shall be expended for the Martha's Vineyard Commission; provided further, that not less than $35,000 shall be expended for a contract with Dukes county for the management and maintenance of Joseph Sylvia state beach; provided further, that $100,000 shall be expended to reimburse the expenses of the Middlesex canal commission; provided further, that $5,000 shall be expended for repairs to Diamond pond dam; provided further, that $10,000 shall be expended for sediment mitigation at Clark's pond; provided further, that $53,373 shall be expended for dredging Hingham harbor; provided further, that $150,000 shall be expended as a matching grant for local dam projects in Oxford; provided further, that $230,000 shall be expended for engineering studies for the repair of the Marblehead seawall; provided further, that not more than $250,000 shall be expended for the dredging of Little Harbor; provided further, that $46,000 shall be expended for the control of the exotic aquatic weed Eurasian Watermilfoil in Dudley pond in the town of Wayland as it is designated a great pond; provided further, that $50,000 shall be expended for repair and replacement of piers in Cohasset; provided further, that $100,000 shall be expended for one aquatic plant harvester to be shared by the towns of Duxbury, Hanson, and Pembroke; provided further, that $200,000 shall be expended for the restoration of Milford pond, also known as Cedar pond, in the town of Milford; provided further, that $50,000 shall be expended to reimburse the town of Saugus for aquatic nuisance control at Griswold pond; provided further, that $100,000 shall be provided for the restoration of Whitman's pond; provided further, that $32,500 shall be expended for the Lewis Bay Waterways Revitalization project; provided further, that $200,000 shall be expended for the restoration of Hall's pond in Brookline; and provided further, that said department may issue grants to public and non-public entities from this item.............................................$6,727,905

Harbors and Inland Waters Maintenance Fund...................... 88.48%
General Fund........................................................................ 11.52%

2100-1000
For the operation of the department of environmental management..............................$2,437,672

Local Aid Fund........................ 100.0%

2100-2002
The department is hereby authorized to expend $80,000 from revenues received from interstate fire-fighting services authorized under section 44 of chapter 138 of the acts of 1991; provided, that the department may expend from this item an amount equal to out of pocket expenses, so-called, and the costs of overtime and shift hours worked by employees of the department and the metropolitan district commission from reimbursements collected from the federal government for the costs of interstate fire-fighting; provided further, that the department shall allocate such amounts to the metropolitan district commission for such purposes; and provided further, that for the purpose of accommodating discrepancies between the receipt of retained revenues and related expenditures, said department and 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..................................$80,000

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
The Legislative overrode the Governor's decision
2100-2030
For the recreational and resource conservation operations of the department; provided, that funds appropriated herein shall be used to operate all of the department's parks, heritage state parks, reservations, campgrounds, beaches, and pools, and for the oversight of rinks; provided further, that funds appropriated herein shall be used to protect and manage the department's lands and natural resources, including the forest and parks conservation services and the bureau of forestry development; provided further, that $600,000 shall be made available for repairs and maintenance to the Newburyport boardwalk; provided further, that not less than $130,000 shall be expended on the Leominster state pool to comply with department of environmental protection, Americans with Disabilities Act, and department of public health regulations; provided further, that not less than $105,137 shall be expended for the restoration of Mill pond in West Newbury; provided further, that $150,000 shall be made available for the purposes of building a boardwalk along a trail in the Chebacco woods; provided further, that $50,000 shall be expended for the repair and upgrade of facilities at Dighton Rock state park; provided further, that $42,000 shall be expended for one full time park ranger and one seasonal park ranger at Walden pond in Concord; provided further, that not less than $3,340 shall be expended for the purposes of planting ten white trees in Southwell park; provided further, that $400,000 shall be made available to address drainage and flooding and enhancing recreational opportunity at Ell pond in Melrose and its surrounding communities; provided further, that $250,000 shall be expended for the improvement and preservation of the Craigville Pond and Centerville River System, known as the Red Lily Pond Restoration project, provided, that the department shall enter into contracts with the Red Lily Pond Project Association; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for design work for the Rail Trail extension in the town of Yarmouth; provided further, that $40,000 shall be expended for a heavy equipment operator in Myles Standish State Forest; provided further, that not less than $150,000 shall be expended for a onetime grant for the preparation of a unified heritage preservation and interpretive plan for the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley Heritage district pursuant to the provisions of chapter 127 of the acts of 1997; provided further, that $50,000 shall be provided for the Blackstone River Canal Commission; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be provided for the promotion of tourism in the city of Fall River, including the Fall River heritage state park; provided further, that such funds shall be administered by the city of Fall River; provided further, that $100,000 shall be made available for a Heritage Rivers pilot program, so-called, in the city of Taunton; provided further, that $95,000 shall be expended for the New Bedford community boating center at Fort Rodman; provided further, that not less than $250,000 shall be obligated for the Schooner Ernestina Commission; provided further, that $85,000 shall be expended as a matching grant for the purchase of open space on King street in the town of Hanover; provided further, that $150,000 shall be expended by the department to work in conjunction with the town of Wilmington for cleanup, maintenance, and construction in Wilmington Town Forest; provided further, that two year-round employees shall be hired for the purposes of fire control in District 14 of Region 3 of the Bureau of Forest Fire Control; provided further, that not less than $130,000 shall be expended on the Clinton state pool to comply with the department of environmental protection, Americans with Disabilities Act, and department of public health regulations; provided further, that $160,000 shall be expended for repairs and reconstruction of the Senator P. Eugene Casey pool in Milford; provided further, that a matching grant of $150,000 shall be expended for the purchase of surplus MBTA rail-bed, one-mile long and seventy-five feet wide, totaling 5.2 acres in north Plymouth, to be used for a nature trail and bike path; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be allocated to the District 10 Fire Control to replace its county patrol truck; provided further, that $236,000 shall be made available to the town of Reading for costs incurred from purchasing the Marion Woods property along the Ipswich River; provided further, that not more than $35,000 shall be expended to repair and upgrade facilities at Roxbury Heritage state park; provided further, that no funds from this item shall be made available for payment to true seasonal employees, so-called; and provided further, that the department may issue grants to public and non-public entities from this line item...$25,677,383

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount, disapproved the wording as indicated and inserted in place there of the following wording below.
2100-2041
The department is hereby authorized to expend revenues collected up to a maximum of $2,500,000 from fees charged by said department credited to the Second Century Fund for additional expenses, upkeep and improvements to the parks and recreation system of the department The department is hereby authorized to expend revenues collected up to a maximum of $2,425,000 from fees charged by said department credited to the Second Century Fund for additional expenses, upkeep and improvements to the parks and recreation system of the department; provided, that no funds from this item shall be expended for the costs of personnel, including seasonal employees; provided further, that not more than $10,000 shall be provided for the purchase of cold water diving equipment to be used for water rescues at the Ashland, Hopkinton, and Cochituate state parks, with said equipment to be stored at the Natick fire department~~; provided further, that $75,000 shall be expended for renovations and improvements for John J. Lane park in the town of Natick~~; and provided further, that the department shall enter into a memorandum of understanding with the town of Natick for access through John J. Lane park to Cochituate state park............................................$~~2,500,000~~ 2,425,000

Second Century Fund................... 100.0%

2100-2050
The department of environmental management may expend revenues collected up to a maximum of $205,872 from campsite reservation transactions from the automated campground reservation and registration program, so-called; provided, that said funds shall be expended for the operation of said program; 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 payments 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 seek to renegotiate all contracts for services provided herein for the purpose of reducing charges; provided further, that the department shall provide a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means detailing the outcome of said negotiations; and provided further, that said report shall be submitted no later than November 27, 2000.......................................$205,872

The Governor disapproved the wording as indicated below.
2100-3010
For the summer and fall seasonal hires of the department, including hires for the fire control unit; provided, that at least the same number of lifeguards shall be assigned to Salisbury beach in fiscal year 2001 as were assigned to said beach in fiscal year 2000; provided further, that, no funds from this item shall be expended for year-round seasonal employees, so-called~~; provided further, that the department shall maintain 40 lifeguards at Horseneck beach~~; provided further, that seasonal employees who are hired prior to 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 2000 shall continue to receive such benefits in fiscal year 2001 during the period of their seasonal employment; and provided further, that the same number of seasonal workers hired at Walden pond in Concord in fiscal year 2000 shall be hired in fiscal year 2001...................................$4,153,140

Local Aid Fund......................... 90.0%
Highway Fund........................... 10.0%

The Governor disapproved the wording as indicated below.
2100-3011
For the winter and spring seasonal hires of the department, including the fire control unit; provided that no funds shall be expended from this item for year-round seasonal employees, so-called~~; provided further, that the department shall have 40 lifeguards at Horseneck beach by June 2001~~; and provided further that seasonal employees who are hired prior to 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 2000 shall continue to receive such benefits in fiscal year 2001 during the period of their seasonal employment ......................................................$2,245,506

Local Aid Fund......................... 90.0%
Highway Fund........................... 10.0%

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 the provisions of 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; provided further, that enactment of the appropriations made available by this act to the department shall be deemed a determination, pursuant to subsection (m) of section 19 of chapter 21A of the General Laws; provided further, that said appropriations for ordinary maintenance of said department from state funds other than the Environmental Challenge Fund and the Environmental Permitting and Compliance Assurance Fund are comparable to the baseline figure, as defined in said subsection (m), based on inflation, the department's demonstrated program improvements and efficiencies in areas other than those supported by fees and added or reduced programmatic responsibilities of the department; provided further, that the bureau of resource protection shall expend ....................................................................... $66,227

For the purposes of reimbursing the town of Walpole for grant money owed on an evaluation study on inflow and infiltration; provided further, that $10,000 shall be expended for the Billington Sea 319 project, socalled, for sewer septic costs in the town of Plymouth; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for repairs and resurfacing to the interior and exterior surfaces of the Cedar street water storage standpipe in the town of Ashland; provided further, that the department shall study the costs of capping the landfill in the town of Townsend; provided further, that the department shall report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than December 15, 2000 on the results of said study; provided further, that $80,000 shall be expended on a study on providing sewers to the Little Neck area of Ipswich, so-called; and provided further, that the department shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means on or before October 1, 2000 detailing the number of full-time equivalent position assigned to environmental permitting function and the number of full-time equivalent positions assigned to compliance inspections and environmental enforcement activities...............................$31,820,112

General Fund...................................................................... 41.05%
Environmental Permitting and Compliance Fund................... 36.95%
Clean Environment Fund..................................................... 22.00%

2200-0106
For the payment of charges assessed to the department of environmental protection for the payment of workers' compensation, unemployment insurance, Medicare taxes, health security plan, and the group insurance commission extended leave chargeback, so-called; provided, that notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, prior to April 15, 2001 all funds appropriated herein shall be scheduled in the DD subsidiary, so-called; provided further, that after said date, the commissioner of environmental protection, with the approval of the secretary of administration and finance, may transfer from said DD subsidiary to the KK subsidiary, so-called, or the NN subsidiary, socalled, of this account, an amount not to exceed 15 per cent of the funds appropriated herein, if the secretary of administration and finance certifies in writing to the house and senate committees on ways and means that the following conditions have been met: (1) that the charges owed by the department for workers' compensation, unemployment insurance, Medicare taxes, health security plan and the group insurance commission extended leave chargeback are less than the amount appropriated herein; (2) that the department does not require any supplemental appropriation in any of its other items of appropriation; (3) that the department is expected to meet the revenue targets established in sections 1A and 1B; and (4) that the department has not expended any funds for the payment of workers compensation, unemployment insurance, Medicare taxes, health security plan and the group insurance commission extended leave chargeback, so-called, in any of its other items of appropriation; provided further, that the secretary of administration and finance shall notify the house and senate committees on ways and means of all transfers of funds between subsidiaries as authorized herein; and provided further, that no funds shall be scheduled to any subsidiary in this account which is not explicitly referenced herein.......$693,812

General Fund.................................... 90.66%
Clean Air Act Compliance Fund.......... 6.13%
Toxics Use Reduction Fund................. 3.21%

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 on or before October 1, 2000 detailing the status of the department's progress in meeting the statutory and regulatory deadlines associated with said chapter 21I and detailing the number of full-time equivalent positions assigned to various implementation requirements of said chapter 21I.......$1,010,168

Toxics Use Reduction Fund............. 100.0%

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.............................................$1,325,610

Clean Air Act Compliance Fund......... 100.0%

2220-2221
For the administration and implementation of the operating permit and compliance program required under the federal Clean Air Act.......................$2,297,063

Clean Air Act Compliance Fund......... 100.0%

2250-2000
For the purposes of state implementation of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act pursuant to section 18A of chapter 21A of the General Laws........$1,738,042

Safe Drinking Water Act Fund.......... 100.0%

2250-2001
For the administration of the state revolving fund....$2,389,813

2260-8870
For the expenses of the hazardous waste cleanup and underground storage tank programs, notwithstanding the provisions of section 323F of chapter 94 of the General Laws and section 2K of chapter 29 of the General Laws and section 4 of chapter 21J of the General Laws; provided, that the department shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means on or before October 1, 2000 detailing the number of full-time equivalent positions assigned to tier IA, tier IB, tier IC and tier II projects; and provided further, that not less than $25,000 shall be expended for the sea change project, so-called, in the evaluation and development of innovative technologies for hazardous waste remediation, brownfields development and ecosystem recovery...................$15,849,580

Clean Environment Fund.......................................................................... 50.00%
Environmental Challenge Fund................................................................. 40.33%
Local Aid Fund......................................................................................... 0.33%
Underground Storage Tank Petroleum Product Cleanup Fund................... 4.20%
General Fund............................................................................................. 5.14%

2260-8881
For the operations of the board of registration of hazardous waste site cleanup professionals, notwithstanding the provisions of section 19A of chapter 21A of the General Laws.........................$300,525

Environmental Challenge Fund.......... 100.0%

Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Environmental Law Enforcement.

2300-0100
For the office of the commissioner of fisheries, wildlife and environmental law enforcement..............$665,650

General Fund.......................................... 62.50%
Environmental Law Enforcement Fund.... 12.50%
Marine Fisheries Fund............................ 12.50%
Public Access Fund................................ 12.50%

The Governor reduced the following items to the following amount.
2300-0101
For a program of riverways protection, restoration, and promotion of public access to rivers, including grants to public and non-public entities; provided, that the positions funded in this item shall not be subject to chapter 31 of the General Laws...............$~~517,867~~ 434,719

Public Access Fund ................... 47.79%
General Fund ............................ 52.21%

2300-0104
For a conservation engineering program to promote alternative species fisheries through the development, testing and monitoring of new fishing gear and fishing techniques; provided, that the department shall conduct research on gear modifications that reduce the risk of entanglement of northern right whales and other protected species; and provided further, that the department shall fund emergency research and management measures in coastal waters of the commonwealth necessitated by the presence of northern right whales...................................................$85,558

Any federal funds received as reimbursements for expenditures from any of the following items shall be credited to the Inland Fisheries and Game Fund.

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 2000

For such research; provided further, that the department shall expend the amount necessary to restore anadromous fish in the Connecticut and Merrimack river systems; and 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........$7,080,461

Inland Fisheries and Game Fund........ 100.0%

2310-0201
For the implementation of a program to manage beaver, muskrat and coyote problems, including population control to be administered by the division ...............................................$187,500

2310-0316
For the purchase 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 2 and 2A of chapter 131 of the General Laws..........................................$2,000,000

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%

2310-0500
For the expenses of a state-funded program for natural heritage and environmental assessment...........$341,845

Inland Fisheries and Game Fund.................................................. 50.0%
Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Fund........................... 50.0%

The Governor disapproved this section.
2310-0600
For the operation of a program to enhance biodiversity, wildlife protection and habitat preservation, the division of fisheries and wildlife is directed to institute a program of controlled fire burning on appropriate state lands; provided that expenditures of these funds shall be matched equally by a private non-profit organization ...........................................$100,000

2315-0100
For the administration of a program of non-game management and research.................................$434,381

General Fund............................................................................... 75.0%
Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Fund........................... 25.0%

2320-0100
For the administration of the public access board; provided, that positions funded herein shall not be subject to the provisions of chapter 31 of the General Laws............................................$258,739

Public Access Fund.................... 100.0%

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
2320-0200
For the maintenance, operation, acquisition and improvement of public access land and water areas, as authorized by section 17A of chapter 21 of the General Laws; provided, that not more than $62,000 shall be expended for the float landing systems, so-called, at the Barton cove and Oxbow boat launching facilities, so-called; provided further, that the amount necessary to construct a boat ramp in the town of Mattapoisett shall be expended from this item; provided further, that $80,000 of the amount appropriated herein shall be used for the design, repair, reconstruction or relocation of boating access ramps, the design and construction of a barrier free float system, the construction of a barrier-free sport fishing pier and the installation of signage on the property of the metropolitan district commission at gates 8 and 32 of the Quabbin reservoir; provided further, that not more than $30,000 shall be expended for a handicapped accessible public fishing pier and boarding docks associated along with access walkways and utilities on Congamond lake in Southwick; and provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended to repair the Quaboag Pond public access facility.............................$~~758,273~~ 678,273

Public Access Fund.................... 62.37%
General Fund.............................. 37.63%

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 the Newburyport shellfish purification plant shall generate not less than $115,000 from purification fees; provided further, that not less than $50,000 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 $10,000 shall be expended for a study relative to the horseshoe crab population in the commonwealth; provided further, that not less than $250,000 shall be expended on research on the fishing conservation and scallop efforts in Georges Bank to be administered by the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth CMAST; and provided further, than not less than $100,000 shall be expended for the joint operation of shellfish propagation program on Cape Cod between the division and Barnstable county........................$4,173,044

Marine Fisheries Fund................. 100.0%

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.................................................$720,457

Marine Fisheries Fund................. 100.0%

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; provided, that not less than $60,000 shall be expended for said research on artificial reefs; provided further, that the division of marine fisheries is hereby authorized to expend revenues up to $380,000 collected from federal sportfish restoration funds and from the sale of materials which promote marine recreational fishing; and provided further, that this expenditure shall generate an additional $285,000 reimbursement from the federal sportfish restoration program to the marine fisheries fund........$380,000

Marine Fisheries Fund................. 100.0%

2350-0100
For the operation of the division of environmental law enforcement; provided, that each county shall be assigned at least one full-time environmental officer; provided further, that officers shall be assigned to vacant patrol districts; provided further, that officers shall provide monitoring pursuant to the National Shellfish Sanitation Program; provided further, that no funds from this item shall be expended for the purposes of item 2350-0104; provided further, that $25,000 shall be made available for the purchase of equipment for a Cape Ann Dive Team; and provided further, that not more than $20,000 shall be expended on the continued expansion of the communications network to join a statewide communications system with the executive office of public safety ....................$9,807,031

Environmental Law Enforcement Fund ... 50.66%
General Fund ......................................... 34.20%
Highway Fund ........................................ 15.14%

2350-0101
For the hunter safety training program..................$249,160

Inland Fisheries and Game Fund........ 100.0%

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount, disapproved the wording as indicated and inserted in place there of the following wording below.
2350-0104
For environmental police private details~~; provided, that the division is hereby authorized to expend revenues of up to $200,000 collected from fees charged for private details~~ ; provided, that the division is hereby authorized to expend revenues of up to $150,000 collected from fees charged for private details.............................$~~200,000~~ 100,000

Environmental Law Enforcement Fund.... 100.0%

Metropolitan District Commission.

2410-1000
For the administration of the metropolitan district commission; provided, that said commission shall enter into an interagency agreement with the department of state police to provide police coverage on commission properties and parkways; provided further, that said department shall reimburse the commission for costs incurred by the commission including, but not limited to, vehicle maintenance and repairs, the operation of department buildings and other related costs; provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions of section 3B of chapter 7 of the General Laws, the commission is hereby authorized and directed to establish or renegotiate fees, licenses, permits, rents and leases, and to adjust or develop other revenue sources to fund the maintenance, operation, and administration of the commission; 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, 2001; provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions of 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; and provided further, that no funds shall be expended from this item for personnel overtime costs.....................$1,401,869

Local Aid Fund......................... 75.0%
Highway Fund........................... 25.0%

2410-1001
The commission is hereby authorized to expend ................$100,000

For the operation and maintenance of the commission'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; provided, that this item shall not impair or diminish the rights of access and utilization of all current users of the system pursuant to agreements previously entered into with the commission; 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 commission to maintain said telecommunications system.................$100,000

2420-1400
For the watershed management program to operate and maintain reservoirs, watershed lands and related infrastructure of the commission; provided, that expenses incurred in other commission programs to assist the watershed management program may be charged to this item; provided further, that no water shall be diverted from the Connecticut river by the metropolitan district commission or the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority; provided further, that $500,000 shall be paid to the town of Clinton, pursuant to section 8 of chapter 307 of the acts of 1987, to compensate for the use of certain land; provided further, that the amount of said payment shall be charged to the Local Aid Fund and not be included in the amount of the annual determination of fiscal year charges to the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority assessed to said authority under section 113 of chapter 92 of the General Laws; provided further, that a work crew shall be made available at the Sudbury reservoir for maintenance of said reservoir; provided further, that not less than 13 rangers shall be assigned to patrol watershed areas; and provided further, that the metropolitan district commission shall provide the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority advisory board with an annual presentation of the expenses of watershed management operations funded by this item for which said authority is charged............................$11,256,975

Watershed Management Fund............. 95.61%
Local Aid Fund..................................... 4.39%

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
The Legislative overrode the Governor's decision
2440-0010
For the administration, operation and maintenance of the metropolitan district commission parks and recreation division, for the maintenance, operation and related costs of the parkways, boulevards, roadways, bridges and related appurtenances under the care, custody, and control of the commission, for the flood control activities of said commission, and for the purchase of all necessary supplies and related equipment; provided, that no funding shall be made available from this item for true seasonal employees, so-called; provided further, that $40,000 shall be expended for the maintenance of the Red Rock park on Lynn Shore drive in the city of Lynn; provided further, that $100,000 shall be expended for improvements to the land and the facilities of the Charles River Esplanade in the city of Boston, and that the metropolitan district commission shall replace and rededicate the plaque honoring Governor Maurice Tobin; provided further, that the commission shall assign one park ranger between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. from May 31 through October 1 at Norumbega park in the town of Weston; provided further, that the commission shall expend ...........................................$150,000

For maintenance of the southwest corridor park in the city of Boston and shall enter into contracts for personnel and other resources necessary for such maintenance, including the costs of two horticulturists and a supervisor; provided further, that $20,000 shall be appropriated to the Harry J. McDonough sailing program; provided further, that $1,300,000 shall be expended for repairs to Steriti rink; provided further, that the sum of $300,000 shall be expended to reimburse the city of Malden for the commission's use of water as charged to the city by the Massachusetts Water Resource Authority; provided further, that not less than $150,000 shall be expended for the costs associated with the management of aquatic non-native plants in the Charles river lakes district, including treatment and monitoring; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be made available for repairs and maintenance to the Hull clock tower; provided further, that $20,000 shall be appropriated for the installation and maintenance of a memorial in honor of former Senate President John E. Powers at the Pleasure Bay lagoon in South Boston; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended from this item for the design and repair of the historic one-room schoolhouse at Moore state park in the town of Paxton; provided further, that not less than $5,000 shall be made available for repairs to Ulin's rink, including but not limited to the sound system; provided further, that not less than $140,000 shall be made available for bringing the Metropolis skating rink in Canton up to the standards set by the Americans with Disabilities Act; provided further, that not less than $250,000 shall be expended on improvements and the general rehabilitation of Bryan rink; provided further, that $50,000 shall be made available for a perimeter fence for the Chickatawbut Museum; provided further, that $40,000 shall be expended to conduct a historic structures and programming report for the Brook Farm Print Shop at the Brook Farm historic site, and that said report shall be submitted not later than November 20, 2000; provided further, that $70,600 shall be expended for two rangers for the patrolling of parks including, but not limited to the StonyBrook reservation/Bellevue Hill reservation; provided further, that $300,000 shall be expended for the costs associated with certain sewer upgrades and improvements as it related to Constitution Beach rehabilitation project; provided further, that the commission is hereby authorized to enter into a memorandum of agreement with the Boston Water and Sewer Commission and to transfer said sum to fund this agreement; provided further, that $60,000 shall be provided to establish a program to breed the natural predators of the insect known as the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid and for the testing of such program in the Hemlock Gorge Reservation and other appropriate sites; provided further, that $300,000 shall be expended for repairs and improvements to the Veteran's memorial rink in Arlington; provided further, that $150,000 shall be expended on a study and design of a retention basin at Blue Hills; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended for improvements to Bellevue reservation in the West Roxbury section of the city of Boston including, but not limited to, ranger patrols of said reservation, lighting and irrigation; provided further, that $1,500,000 shall be used toward the reconstruction and design of Peabody Circle; provided further, that $100,000 shall be expended to conduct a feasibility and design study which provides a full cost analysis for the rehabilitation of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial swimming pool; provided further, that $100,000 shall be expended to prevent run-off from Blue Hills Reservation at Pine Tree Brook in Milton; provided further, that $50,000 shall be expended for improvements to the Revere Beach parkway in the city of Everett; provided further, that $400,000 shall be expended for the study and design of the Mystic Valley parkway phase II, socalled; provided further, that residual funds shall be utilized toward rehabilitation and construction; provided further, that said commission, in coordination with the department of highways, shall commence work on a study and design of the pedestrian underpass under the Mystic Wellington bridge, so-called, on state highway route 28 in the city of Somerville not later than September 1, 2000 and shall complete said study not later than March 31, 2001; provided further, that said study shall be funded in accordance with the terms specified in item 6010-0002 of section 2; provided further, that said commission shall report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than April 15, 2001 on the findings of said study; provided further, that said report shall include, but not be limited to, a budget for the cost of production, a finance plan that identifies funding sources for the project, a timeline for implementation, and a plan for interagency coordination that establishes lead agencies for managing construction and a lead agency for managing the long term maintenance of said underpass; provided further, that $75,000 shall be expended to begin a master plan for the Alewife reservation area; provided further, that $250,000 shall be expended for a conceptual master plan with phase one implementation for the Mystic river lower basin from state highway route 16 to state highway route 99; provided further, that $130,000 shall be expended for clean-up and restoration of Donovan's beach in the town of Winthrop; provided further, that not more than $32,000 shall be expended to acquire a MADVAC, so-called, to maintain the commissions property along Shore drive in Quincy; provided further, that one additional Park Ranger I position and one additional laborer I position shall be assigned to the Spot pond reservation in the town of Stoneham; and provided further, that $100,000 shall be expended for renovations to the Brighton/Allston pool, including the bath house......$31,851,794

Highway Fund .......................... 60.0%
Local Aid Fund......................... 40.0%

2440-0031
For the enhancement of the Boston Harbor islands; provided, that the commission shall target improvements to Peddock's and Lovell's islands including the acquisition of summer cottages thereon.................................................$300,000

The Governor reduced the following items to the following amount.
2440-0045
For payment to the city of Boston for maintenance and operation of the James Michael Curley recreation center.......................................$~~293,116~~ 234,493

Local Aid Fund........................ 100.0%

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount, disapproved the wording as indicated and inserted in place there of the following wording below.
2440-1000
~~The metropolitan district commission is hereby authorized to expend an amount not to exceed $200,000 from revenue generated pursuant to section 34B of chapter 92 of the General Laws~~ The metropolitan district commission is hereby authorized to expend an amount not to exceed $100,000 from revenue generated pursuant to section 34B of chapter 92 of the General Laws...........$~~200,000~~ 100,000

2440-1202
For the civilianization of crossing guards located at metropolitan district commission intersections where state police personnel previously performed such duties; provided, that not less than $3,902 shall be expended on additional school crossing guards on the corner of Mystic avenue and Shore drive in the city of Somerville.........................$223,902

2440-2000
For the expenses of snow and ice control on the metropolitan district commission parkways, including the costs of personnel........................$569,796

Highway Fund.......................... 100.0%

2440-3000
For the extended rink season, including the costs of personnel; provided, that the metropolitan district commission is hereby authorized and directed to allocate skating rink rental time so as to promote the expansion of all youth hockey programs without discrimination by gender...............$524,652 Local Aid Fund........................ 100.0%

2440-3001
The metropolitan district commission is hereby authorized to expend an amount not to exceed $542,225 from skating rink fees and rentals for the operation and maintenance, including personnel costs, of four rinks between September 1, 2000 and April 30, 2001 for an expanded and extended rink season..................................................$542,225

2440-4420
For the operation and maintenance of the Ponkapoag golf course, so-called; provided, that the commission is hereby authorized to expend revenues up to $900,000 collected from fees generated by said golf course; provided further, that for the purposes of accommodating discrepancies between the receipt of retained revenue and related expenditures, said 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.................................$900,000

Ponkapoag Recreational Fund........... 100.0%

2440-4421
For the operation and maintenance of the Leo J. Martin golf course, so-called; provided, that the commission is hereby authorized to expend revenues up to $700,000 collected from fees generated by said golf course; provided further, that for the purposes of accommodating discrepancies between the receipt of retained revenue and related expenditures, said 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.................................$700,000 Leo J. Martin Recreational Fund....... 100.0%

2440-5000
For the summer and fall seasonal hires of the commission; provided, that no funds appropriated herein shall be used for year-round seasonals, socalled................................................$ 2,780,224

Highway Fund........................... 60.0%
Local Aid Fund......................... 40.0%

2440-6000
For the winter and spring seasonal hires of the commission; provided, that no funds appropriated herein shall be used for year-round seasonals, socalled..................................................$ 562,436

Highway Fund........................... 60.0%
Local Aid Fund......................... 40.0%

2443-2000
For the operation of the Commonwealth Zoological Corporation, pursuant to chapter 92B of the General Laws; provided, that $3,000,000 of the amount appropriated herein shall be used toward the improvement of the Franklin Park and Stone zoos and for the purposes of promoting private fund-raising, achieving self-sufficiency and serving as a catalyst for urban economic development and job opportunities for local residents; provided further, that said corporation shall take all steps necessary to increase the amount of private funding available for the operation of said zoos; provided further, that said corporation shall report to the house and senate committees on ways and means no later than March 1, 2001 on the status of, and amounts collected from, the private fundraising and enhanced revenue efforts identified in the draft Massachusetts zoos business and operations plan dated December, 1996; and provided further, that said corporation shall continue to provide free services and supplies, including, but not limited to, routine animal check-ups, diagnosis and care, emergency veterinary needs, medications and medical supplies, vitamins and diet supplements and Zoo Prem feline diet, to the trailside museum and the Chickatawbut Hill center in the town of Milton........$6,000,000 Local Aid Fund........................ 100.0%

2443-2002
For improvements to municipal zoos; provided, that $300,000 shall be provided to the Forest Park Children's Zoo in the city of Springfield; provided further, that $300,000 shall be provided to the Buttonwood Park Zoological Society, Inc. to establish educational programs, exhibits, and other enhancements; provided, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended for programming, transportation and other costs associated with enhanced educational programs for economically disadvantaged youths; provided further, that said society shall develop a free admission program in consultation with the United Front Day Care, Pace Head Start and the Boys and Girls Club; and provided further, that 30 days prior to any said expenditure, the Buttonwood Park Zoological Society, Inc. shall submit to the secretary of the executive office of environmental affairs a detailed plan of all such expenditures............................................$600,000

Local Aid Fund........................ 100.0%

2444-9001
For the construction, reconstruction, and improvement of boulevards, parkways, bridges, and related appurtenances under the care, custody, and control of the commission...............................$877,432

Highway Fund.......................... 100.0%

The Governor reduced the following items to the following amount.
2444-9004
For certain payments for the maintenance and use of the trailside museum and the Chickatawbut Hill center..................................................$~~462,500~~ 317,500

Local Aid Fund........................ 100.0%

2444-9005
For street lighting on metropolitan district commission parkways...................................$2,400,000

Highway Fund.......................... 100.0%

The Governor disapproved this section.
2460-0110
For local recreational assistance matching grants; provided, that not more than $350,000 shall be expended for a grant to the city of Melrose which shall be used to address drainage and flooding problems and to expand local recreational opportunities...........................................$350,000

2460-1000
For the construction division; provided, that notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, all offices and positions of the division shall be subject to classification under sections 45 to 50, inclusive, of chapter 30 of the General Laws.....................$2,961,609 Highway Fund........................... 80.0%

Local Aid Fund......................... 20.0%

Department of Food and Agriculture.

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
2511-0100
For the operation of the department of food and agriculture, including the office of the commissioner, the expenses of the board of agriculture, the division of dairy services, 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, the division of agricultural development and fairs, including the expenses of the agricultural lands board~~; provided, that $21,000 shall be expended for the food distribution efforts of the Amherst survival center~~; provided further, that not less than $159,910 shall be expended for the agricultural business management training program; provided further, that allotment funds for 4-H activities may be expended from this item; provided further, that not less than $287,245 shall be expended for the farmer's market coupon program; provided further, that not less than $200,000 shall be expended for agricultural fair prizes; provided further, that funds shall be made available from this item for the cranberry trade initiative, socalled; provided further, that not less than $49,976 be expended on the rabies control program; provided further, that $250,000 shall be expended as a one-time grant for research and development of the Massachusetts cranberry industry to be administered by the University of Massachusetts at Amherst cranberry experiment station located in Wareham; provided further, that $300,000 shall be expended for implementation of the agricultural marketing strategic plan, including, but not limited to, a "Buy Local" campaign, so-called, and funding for agricultural business training and technical assistance~~; and provided further, that not less than $20,000 shall be expended on a shellfish propagation program in the town of Westport~~..............................................$~~5,364,307~~ 5,323,307

2511-0105
For the purchase of supplemental foods for the emergency food assistance program within the second harvest nationally-certified food bank system of Massachusetts; provided, that the funds appropriated herein shall be expended for food to be distributed by the greater Boston food bank as follows: 73.5 per cent to the greater Boston food bank, including a portion to be distributed to the Merrimack valley food bank pursuant to a contractual agreement between said food bank and the greater Boston food bank, 15.2 per cent to the food bank of western Massachusetts, and 11.3 per cent to the Worcester county food bank; and provided further, that not more than $150,000 shall be made available for a statewide nutrition education program.....................................$6,430,000

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount, disapproved the wording as indicated and inserted in place there of the following wording below.
2511-3002
For the integrated pest management program~~; provided, that not less than $250,000 shall be expended for the purpose of a research grant at the University of Massachusetts~~ ; provided, that not less than $150,000 shall be expended for the purpose of a research grant at the University of Massachusetts; and provided further, that said university shall not assess any overhead costs or charges to funds allocated to said university from this line item..........................$~~399,500~~ 299,500

2511-4010
For the development of the aquaculture program, including promotion, marketing, industry unification, and a grant program that is responsive to the needs of the Massachusetts aquaculture industry; provided that not less than $20,000 be provided as an aquaculture program grant to the New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School.......$142,472

2520-0100
For the operation of the state reclamation board.........$64,551

Mosquito and Greenhead Fly Control Fund.......................... 100.0%

2520-0300
For the Cape Cod mosquito control program, prior appropriation continued...............................$1,213,020

Mosquito and Greenhead Fly Control Fund.......................... 100.0%

2520-0900
For the Suffolk county mosquito control program.........$179,497

Mosquito and Greenhead Fly Control Fund.......................... 100.0%

2520-1000
For the Central Massachusetts mosquito control program.................................................$886,933

Mosquito and Greenhead Fly Control Fund.......................... 100.0%

2520-1100
For the Berkshire county mosquito control program.......$113,675

Mosquito and Greenhead Fly Control Fund.......................... 100.0%

2520-1200
For the Norfolk county mosquito control program, prior appropriation continued...........................$829,806

Mosquito and Greenhead Fly Control Fund.......................... 100.0%

2520-1300
For the Bristol county mosquito control program.........$659,248

Mosquito and Greenhead Fly Control Fund.......................... 100.0%

2520-1400
For the Plymouth county mosquito control program........$892,446

Mosquito and Greenhead Fly Control Fund.......................... 100.0%

2520-1500
For the Essex county mosquito control program, provided, that not less than $75,000 shall be expended for an aerial spray mosquito control program.................................................$611,012

Mosquito and Greenhead Fly Control Fund.......................... 100.0%

EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES.
Office of the Secretary.

The Governor disapproved the wording as indicated below.
4000-0100
For the operation of the executive office; provided, that said office shall establish the office of substance abuse services pursuant to the provisions of section 401 not later than September 1, 2000; provided further, that the executive office shall provide technical and administrative assistance to agencies under the purview of the secretariat receiving federal funds; provided further, that said executive office shall monitor the expenditures and completion timetables for systems development projects and enhancements undertaken by the department of social services, the division of medical assistance, and the department of transitional assistance, and shall ensure that all measures are taken to make said systems compatible with one another for enhanced interagency interaction; provided further, that said office shall report to the house and senate committees on ways and means and the secretary of administration and finance on the progress of such projects and enhancements and the measures taken to ensure interagency cooperation not later than January 15, 2001; provided further, that said executive office shall continue to develop and implement the common client identifier, so-called; provided further, that said 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 not more than $55,000 shall be expended for the annualized cost of a domestic violence coordinator; provided further, that the secretary of health and human services shall personally approve and sign all contracts entered into by the office of refugees and immigrants to prevent future deficiencies by said office; and provided further, that the executive office of health and human services 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 provisions of goods, services, and housing on said islands...........................$2,205,976

4000-0110
For matching grants to municipalities, boys and girls'clubs, girls' inc., YMCA and YWCA organizations and nonprofit community centers, in neighborhoods identified by the secretary of health and human services as benefiting from intensive proactive intervention, for a program to prevent high rates of juvenile delinquency, teen pregnancy, and high school drop-out rates for youths-at-risk, so-called; provided, that said program shall be structured to require collaboration in each such neighborhood between agencies of the executive office of health and human services and the department of human services, education, the county sheriff's office, public safety departments, boys and girls' clubs, YMCA and YWCA organizations and nonprofit community centers of each participating municipality; provided further, that youths-at-risk shall include, but need not be limited to, those teenagers and pre-teenagers identified with histories of court involvement, significant or continuous exposure to criminal behavior in their household, truancy, homelessness, children-in-needof- services status, so-called, or involvement with the departments of social services or youth services; provided further, that funds from this item may be expended to provide after-school programs that include parental accountability and training, court-based assessments, mentoring, substance abuse prevention and recreational programs; provided further, that the executive office shall work in conjunction with public and private organizations for the purposes of securing new matching funds for expenditures made from this item; provided further, that any funds distributed pursuant to this item shall be subject to the following provisions: (a) no funds appropriated herein shall be allocated or disbursed prior to the commitment of new, equal matching funds from such municipalities or organizations the amount of which shall exceed amounts committed by such municipalities or organizations for the same or similar purposes in fiscal year 2000; (b) any contract awarded to any such municipality or organization shall be awarded on a one-year basis and shall not annualize in any future fiscal year (c) any contract shall be performance-based, and (d) any contract shall be subject to reporting requirements which shall provide for a study of the longitudinal effects of said program; provided further, that said secretary shall report at the end of the first quarter of the fiscal year to the house and senate committees on ways and means on the types of services provided in each targeted municipality, the names of vendors contracted by each such program, the cost of each such service, the exact amounts matched by each program, the amount of the match from the previous fiscal year, the number of children to be served by each such program, the goals of each such program, and the administrative costs, if any, assessed by each vendor; and provided further that said secretary shall report at the end of the third quarter to the house and senate committees on ways and means on actual outcomes for fiscal year 2000, expected outcomes for fiscal year 2001, and actual outcomes for the first three quarters of fiscal year 2001......$3,000,000

Transitional Aid to Needy Families............................ 100.0%

4000-0111
For one-time, competitive, two-year, youth development matching grants to boys and girls' clubs, girls' inc., YMCA and YWCA organizations and non-profit community centers for delinquency prevention, leadership and character development, technology training, job training, drug, alcohol and teenage pregnancy prevention, and educational enhancement for youths-at-risk, so-called; provided, that youths-at-risk shall include, but need not be limited to, those teenagers and preteenagers identified with histories of court involvement, significant or continuous exposure to criminal behavior in their household, truancy, homelessness, children in need-of-services status, so-called, or involvement with the departments of social services or youth services; provided further, that funds from this item may be expended to provide recreational programs; provided further, that grants shall not exceed $75,000 per year; provided further, that no more than 10 per cent of each grant award may be made available for capital expenditures essential to grant program operations; provided further, 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 said organization; and provided further, that the secretary of health and human services shall report to the house and senate committees on ways and means by no later than November 15, 2000 on the types of services provided by each non-profit organization, the cost of each such service, the number of children to be served by each such program, the goals of each such program, and expected outcomes for fiscal year 2001 ......................................................$1,000,000

4000-0112
For matching grants to municipalities, boys and girls' clubs, YMCA and YWCA organizations, girls' inc., and non-profit community centers for a program to prevent high rates of juvenile delinquency, teen pregnancy, and high school dropout rates for youths-at-risk, so-called; provided, that said program shall be structured to require collaboration in each such neighborhood between agencies of the executive office of health and human services and the department of human services, education, the county sheriff's office, public safety departments, boys and girls' clubs, YMCA and YWCA organizations and non-profit community centers of each participating municipality; provided further, that youths-at-risk shall include, but need not be limited to, those teenagers and pre-teenagers identified with histories of court involvement, significant or continuous exposure to criminal behavior in their household, truancy, homelessness, children-in-needof- services status, so-called, or involvement with the departments of social services or youth services; provided further, that funds from this item may be expended to provide after-school programs that include parental accountability and training, court-based assessments, mentoring, substance abuse prevention and recreational programs; provided further, that the executive office shall work in conjunction with public and private organizations for the purposes of securing new matching funds for expenditures made from this item; provided further, 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 said organization; provided further, that said secretary shall report to the house and senate committees on ways and means on the types of services, the cost of each such service, the exact amounts matched by each program, the names of vendors contracted by each such program, the number of children to be served by each such program, the goals of each such program, expected outcomes for fiscal year 2001 and actual outcomes for fiscal year 2001; provided further, that $50,000 shall be expended for the Billerica Boys and Girls Club; provided further, that $50,000 shall be expended for the Salem Boys and Girls Club; provided further, that $60,000 shall be expended for the Barnstable County Sheriff's Youth Program; provided further, that $50,000 shall be expended for the Russian Teens-at- Risk Program operated by the Jewish Family and Children's Service in the city of Boston, town of Brookline, city of Malden and city of Newton; provided further, that $20,000 shall be expended for the public partnership program between the Greater Lynn YMCA and YWCA and the town of Saugus; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be provided to the Military Division for their participation in the Horace Mann Leadership Charter School; provided further, that $74,940 shall be provided to expand the Common Ground program at the YWCA of Greater Lawrence; provided further, that $75,000 shall be expended for a partnership between the united front child development center and the Boys and Girls Club of New Bedford; provided further, that $50,000 shall be expended for the Boys and Girls Club of Roxbury; provided further, that an additional $25,000 shall be expended for the Boys and Girls Club of Brockton; and provided further, that funds received by the Boys and Girls Club in this item shall not be taken into consideration or used to reduce award amounts by the Secretary when awarding funds from items 4000- 0110 and 4000-0111......................................$554,940

The Governor reduced the following items to the following amount.
4000-0122
For a citizenship assistance program to assist legal non-citizens in becoming citizens of the United States; provided, that the executive office of health and human services shall enter into an interagency service agreement with the office for refugees and immigrants for the administration of said program; provided further, that said program shall be administered in consultation with said executive office, the department of transitional assistance and the division of medical assistance; provided further, that said program shall be provided through community-based organizations to the maximum extent determined appropriate by the office for refugees and immigrants; provided further, that the program funded by this item: (1) shall provide assistance to persons who are eligible to become citizens of the United States within three years; and (2) may be funded not only through state appropriations but also through matching financial or in-kind contributions by private organizations or local government agencies; provided further, that persons who would qualify for benefits provided pursuant to chapter 118A of the General Laws, but for their status as legal non-citizens shall be accorded the highest priority for provision of services; provided further, that said program shall neither be an entitlement, nor be construed to create an entitlement, and shall be subject to state appropriation; provided further, that the office for refugees and immigrants shall issue quarterly reports to the house and senate committees on ways and means and to the executive office of administration and finance on the number of persons participating in said program and the number of persons attaining citizenship in each quarter; provided further, that said report shall also detail the number of participants in said program receiving state-funded benefits by category of benefits and the federal benefits each participant would have been eligible for, but for his or her status as a legal non-citizen; provided further, that said office for refugees and immigrants shall report quarterly to the house and senate committees on ways and means and the executive office of administration and finance on the amounts of matching or in-kind contributions by private organizations or local government agencies; provided further, that no funds shall be expended from this item to replace expiring federal funds; and provided further, that no funds shall be expended from this item for AA subsidiary payroll costs, so-called......................................$~~1,500,000~~ 750,000

4000-0160
For a reserve for the costs of psychiatric and related services provided to children and adolescents, determined to be medically ready for discharge from acute hospital units or mental health facilities, who are experiencing unnecessary delays in being discharged due to the lack of more appropriate settings; provided, that for the purpose of funding said services, the secretary of health and human services may allocate funds from the amount appropriated herein to other departments within the executive office of health and human services; provided further, that the secretary of health and human services shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than January 15, 2001 on the results of the collaboration between said office and the other departments within the executive office pursuant to section 433 of this act; provided further, that not less than $4,900,000 shall be made available for 45 additional residential treatment beds for children in need of intensive clinical treatment; provided further, that not less than $375,000 shall be expended to hire a licensed mental health professional for each of the six regions within the department of social services to serve as clinical care coordinators; provided further, that not less than $3,130,000 shall be expended for 34 additional community and intensive residential treatment programs; provided further, that not less than $800,000 shall be expended for four additional pediatric mental health inpatient beds; and provided further, that $300,000 shall be provided for educational services; provided further, that $400,000 shall be expended for one-time equipment purchases and modifications to state-owned property; and provided further, that $95,000 shall be provided for increased psychiatry services........$10,000,000

4000-0300
For the operation of the division, including the administrative 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, that the same standards and regulations for personal care attendants in effect on February 1, 2000 shall be retained in fiscal year 2001 unless an agreement to any changes is reached between the division of medical assistance, designees of the governor's advisory commission on disability policy, the Massachusetts office on disability and the statewide independent living council; provided further, that the same standards and regulations in place for score III, so called, in fiscal year 1998 shall be retained in fiscal year 2001; provided further, that in consultation with the division of health care finance and policy, the division shall not approve any increase in 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 to the division by this act shall be accounted for according to such purpose on the Massachusetts management, accounting and reporting system not more than ten days after such expenditures have been made by the medicaid management information system; provided further, that the division shall not make expenditures 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 division shall seek to obtain the maximum amount of federal reimbursement for training of certified nursing aides, pursuant to item 7003- 0604; provided further, that the division shall file a report with the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than December 1, 2000 detailing the amount of federal reimbursement available to the commonwealth for the training of certified nurses' aides; provided further, that the division 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, so-called; provided further, that the division shall report quarterly to the house and senate committees on ways and means the amounts of said expenditure refunds credited to each item of appropriation; provided further, that unless otherwise expressly authorized by law, the division shall deposit all federal funds received in the General Fund; provided further, that the division shall report quarterly to the house and senate committees on ways and means the amount of hand generated payments, so-called, to providers by item of appropriation from which said payments were made; and provided further, that the division shall authorize durable medical equipment that is prescribed for preventative services.................$32,216,382

4000-0309
For administrative expenses of the division made pursuant to the EE subsidiary, so-called, as classified by the comptroller; provided, that all funds appropriated herein shall be scheduled in the EE subsidiary, so-called; and provided further, that no funds from any other item of state appropriation available to the division shall be used for said expenses except as specifically authorized in any such item...........................$3,766,188

4000-0310
For administrative support and related services purchased contractually by the division, including contracted services necessary for 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, that said services shall include but shall not be limited to, pre-admission screening, utilization review, medical consultants, disability determination reviews, health benefit managers and interagency service agreements; provided further, that not less than $1,641,150 shall be provided for an interagency service agreement with the executive office of elder affairs that provides for the transfer of funds from this item for the costs of administering enrollment in the senior pharmacy assistance program established pursuant to the provisions of said section 16B; provided further, that not less than $500,000 shall be distributed to home care corporations for the purposes of said interagency service agreement; provided further, that a summary description of interagency service agreements for which funds are allocated by the division to other agencies shall be submitted to the house and senate committees on ways and means not more than ten days after making such allocations; provided further, that no funds shall be expended from this item for the contracted services funded in item 4000-0325; provided further, that no funds appropriated herein shall be scheduled or expended from the AA subsidiary, socalled; provided further, that no funds shall be expended by the division for the purpose of funding interpretive services directly or indirectly related to a settlement or resolution agreement, so-called, with the office of civil rights or any other office, group or entity; provided further, that interpretive services currently provided by the division shall not give rise to enforceable legal rights for any party or to an enforceable entitlement to interpretive services; provided further, that $1,000,000 shall be made available for the funding of the state mini-grant program, so called; provided further, that the division shall report to the house and senate committees on ways and means and the executive office of administration and finance, not later than January 4, 2001, the quarterly expenditure of said minigrants; and provided further, that said report shall include, but not be limited to, a detail of recipients and amounts received, uses of said funds and a cost-based analysis of effectiveness and impact of said mini-grants on increasing program enrollment and promoting awareness of MassHealth programs; provided further, that the federal financial participation received from claims filed by the division 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 said hospitals or health centers, shall be credited to this item and may be expended without further appropriation in an amount specified in said agreement between the division and each donating provider hospital or health center; and provided further, that the federal financial participation received from claims filed by the division based on in-kind administrative services related to outreach and eligibility activities performed by certain community organizations, under the so-called "covering kids initiative" and in accordance with the federal revenue criteria in 45 CFR 74.23 or any other federal regulation which provides a basis for federal financial participation, shall be credited to this item and may be expended, without further appropriation, on administrative services including those covered under an agreement between the division and the organizations participating in said initiative......................................$45,566,658

4000-0320
The division of medical assistance may expend an amount not to exceed $70,000,000 from the monies received from recoveries of any 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 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 items 4000-0300, 1599-0100, 1599-0111, 4000-0309, 4000-0310 or 4000-0325; 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 division 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.................$70,000,000

4000-0325
For the non-personnel systems costs of the division, including such costs incurred to implement and operate programs authorized by sections 9A to 9C inclusive and sections 16B and 16C of chapter 118E of the General Laws; provided, that such systems costs may include contracts for the management and operation of the central automated vendor payment system, including the recipient eligibility verification system, vendor contracts to upgrade and enhance the division's central automated vendor payment system, the medicaid management information system, so-called and the recipient eligibility verification system, MA21, so-called, the EE subsidiary costs, socalled, related to information technology division chargebacks, contractors responsible for systems maintenance and development, personal computers and other information technology equipment used by the division; provided further, that 50 per cent of the cost of provider point of service eligibility verification devices purchased by the division shall be assumed by the providers utilizing said devices; and provided further, that the division shall assume the full cost of provider point of service eligibility verification devices utilized by any and all participating dental care providers...$23,707,382

4000-0430
For the commonhealth program to provide primary and supplemental medical care and assistance to disabled adults and children pursuant to sections 9A, 16 and 16A of chapter 118E of the General Laws; provided, that not more than $9,259,000 shall be expended for expenses incurred in prior fiscal years; provided further, that the division shall maximize federal reimbursement for state expenditures made on behalf of said adults and children; provided further, that the division shall adhere to the same time standards for processing of a commonhealth application as govern applications under Title XIX of the federal social security act namely within 45 days of receipt of a completed application or within 90 days if a determination of disability is required; and provided further, that children shall be determined eligible for said medical care and assistance if said children meet the disability standards as defined by the division of medical assistance and that said disability standards shall be no more restrictive than the standards in effect on July 1, 1996..................$30,560,000

4000-0450
For a pharmacy assistance program for eligible residents of the commonwealth, pursuant to section 16B of chapter 118E of the General Laws; provided, that in addition to the amount appropriated for the interagency service agreement with the executive office of elder affairs in item 4000-0310, an amount not less than $700,000 shall be provided for an interagency service agreement with said office that provides for the transfer of funds from this item for the costs of promulgating and administering enrollment in the senior pharmacy assistance program for any successor program, established pursuant to said section 16B of said chapter 118E; provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, any portion of the sum appropriated herein determined by the commissioner of medical assistance to be unneeded for the purposes set forth herein may be used for the purposes of items 4000-1450 and 4000-1451 of this act; and provided further, that no such transfer shall occur before April 1, 2001.....................$30,000,000

4000-0460
For an interagency service agreement with the executive office of elder affairs to provide home care services to eligible recipients through the enhanced community options program, so-called, the home health substitution initiative, so-called, and the nursing home light care initiative, so-called; provided, that the executive office of elder affairs shall ensure that the aging services access points, so-called, or other entities that receive funds from this item shall comply with any performance measures, outcome goals and costeffectiveness standards established by the division and the executive office of elder affairs pursuant to the terms of said interagency service agreement ......................................................$7,793,000

The Governor disapproved the wording as indicated below.
4000-0500
For health care services provided to medical assistance recipients under the division's primary care clinician/mental health and substance abuse plan or through a health maintenance organization under contract with the division; provided, that not more than $197,660,000 shall be expended from this item for health care services provided to said 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 commissioners of the division of medical assistance and the department 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 division to administer the mental health and substance abuse benefit; and provided further, that such quarterly reports shall include, but shall 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 the division of medical assistance, the department of mental health and the Massachusetts behavioral health partnership shall collaborate to submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than December 15, 2000, detailing all administrative costs associated with managing the carve-out, socalled, of medicaid substance abuse and mental health services, including all costs associated with said division's contract with said partnership; provided further, that said report shall include the rates paid to each inpatient facility in said partnership's provider network for each type of service for which a distinct rate is paid, the methodological basis for such rates, including any adjustments made to such rates resulting from case-mix, per-member-per-month calculations or other factors, and the specific positive or negative adjustments made by the partnership to such rates for each of the last three fiscal years; provided further, that said report shall include a three year analysis that separately distinguishes utilization trends for clients of the department and recipients enrolled in each health benefit plan, so-called, that is offered by the division; provided further, said report shall incorporate recommendations relative to enhancing the rates paid to such facilities that reflects the relative cost of delivering services to such clients and recipients and for improving the performance of said partnership; provided further, that said report shall address the governmental costs of oversight of the MBHP, socalled, contract at the division of medical assistance, the department of mental health, the department of public health, the department of social services and other state agencies, as well as the value added by such oversight and interagency collaboration; provided further, that $5,800,000 of the amount appropriated herein shall be expended for payment adjustments for inpatient services provided at acute pediatric specialty hospitals with not less than 250 licensed beds, which shall include disproportionate share payments and rate adjustments to compensate for the costs resulting from modifications to the division's payment methodology to acute care pediatric specialty hospitals with not less than 250 licensed beds in a manner which shall treat graduate medical education costs for pediatric residents at said hospitals as primary care medical education costs and shall recognize the intensity of certain outpatient service, and for the costs resulting from modifications to the rate methodology used by the division to reimburse acute care pediatric specialty hospitals with not less than 250 beds for care provided during so-called "outlier" days, which shall mean days in excess of 20 days after an acute inpatient hospital admission ...............$1,422,220,676

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
4000-0600
For health care services provided to medical assistance recipients under the division's senior care plan; provided, that not more than $255,710,000 shall be expended from this item for health care services provided to said 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 notwithstanding the provisions of item 4000-0310 to the contrary, not less than $8,600,000 shall be made available from this item to pay for the cost of home and community-based health waiver services provided to elderly medicaid recipients enrolled in the section 2176 waiver, so-called; provided further, that the division shall expend all necessary amounts to extend the number of nursing facility bed hold days to 20 for patients of the facility on medical leaves of absence pursuant to section 403 of this act; provided further, that not less than $1,014,170 shall be made available from this item for the increased per diem rate paid to providers of dementia-specific adult day care services; and provided further, that expenditures from this item shall be made only for the purposes expressly stated herein.....................................$~~1,647,370,000~~ 1,646,370,000

The Governor disapproved the wording as indicated below.
4000-0700
For health care services provided to medical assistance recipients under the division's health care indemnity/third party liability plan and medical assistance recipients not otherwise covered under the division's managed care or senior care plans; provided, that not more than $128,840,000 shall be expended from this item for health care services provided to said 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 $900,000 shall be made available from this item to pay for the cost of a program of outreach and follow-up services conducted by agencies certified as comprehensive family planning agencies to increase the utilization of comprehensive family planning services known as the Keep Teens Healthy Project, so-called; provided further, that expenditures from this item shall be made only for the purposes expressly stated herein; provided further, that the division shall conduct a study of medicaid rates paid to outpatient mental health, outpatient substance abuse, methadone counseling and psychiatric day treatment providers; provided further, that such study shall include (a) a review of medicaid reimbursement rates paid to said providers during fiscal years 1990 to 2001, inclusive; (b) a comparison of said rates to the costs said providers incur in delivering services; (c) an evaluation of the adequacy of said rates with consideration for inflation in costs incurred by said providers and other relevant factors as determined by said division; (d) a review of said providers' inability or ability to support programs within existing allocations; and (e) recommendations of how to improve the delivery of care and meet the specific needs of patients who are dually diagnosed with mental illness and addiction...........................................$653,330,000

4000-0860
For MassHealth benefits provided to children and adults pursuant to 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 pursuant to said clause (c) of said subsection 2 whose family incomes, as determined by the division, exceed 150 per cent of the federal poverty level; provided further, that not more than $31,620,000 shall be expended from this item for health care services provided to said children and adults in prior fiscal years; and provided further, that all federal reimbursements received for expenditures from this item pursuant the provisions of Title XIX and Title XXI of the federal social security act shall be credited to the Children's and Seniors' Health Care Assistance Fund............$205,355,323

4000-0866
For expansion of the MassHealth Basic program to provide health insurance benefits to uninsured intermittent workers and certain homeless individuals; provided that such program shall include all those currently unemployed or those with intermittent work histories apart from income, as defined by section 103 of the McKinney Act, 42 U.S.C. 11302, as an individual who lacks a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence; and an individual who has a primary nighttime residence that is: a supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations including welfare hotels, congregate shelters, and transitional housing for the mentally ill; and institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized; or a public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings; provided further, that funds shall only be expended and such expansion implemented, subject to federal approval of an amendment to the medicaid section 1115 waiver, so-called, and the availability of federal financial participation; and provided further, that not later than February 1, 2001, the division shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means detailing eligibility criteria for such intermittent workers and certain homeless individuals, including the method for tracking expenditures for such persons, and the actuarially calculated per member per month cost of providing said benefits to such persons.........................$2,500,000

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 not more than $55,000,000 shall be expended from this item for health care services provided to said recipients in prior fiscal years; and provided further, that all revenues received as a result of expenditures authorized herein shall be credited to the Children's and Seniors' Health Care Assistance Fund.....................................$168,100,000

4000-0880
For MassHealth benefits pursuant to the provisions of clause (c) of subsection 2 of section 9A and section 16C of chapter 118E of the General Laws for children and adolescents whose family incomes as determined by the division 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 said children and adolescents in prior fiscal years; and provided further, that all federal reimbursements received for expenditures from this item pursuant the provisions of Title XXI of the federal social security act shall be credited to the Children's and Seniors' Health Care Assistance Fund..........................$43,000,000

4000-0890
For the cost of health insurance premium subsidies paid to employees of small businesses participating in the insurance reimbursement program pursuant to the provisions of section 9C of chapter 118E of the General Laws; provided, that all federal reimbursements received for expenditures from this item pursuant the provisions of Title XIX and Title XXI of the federal social security act shall be credited to the Children's and Seniors' Health Care Assistance Fund; and provided further, that expenditures made for the purposes of this item shall not exceed the amount appropriated herein......$18,346,000

4000-0891
For the cost of health insurance subsidies paid to employers participating in the insurance reimbursement program pursuant to the provisions of section 9C of chapter 118E of the General Laws; provided, that the division shall directly market said program to private human service providers that deliver human and social services under contract with departments within the executive office of health and human services and the executive office of elder affairs for the purpose of mitigating health insurance costs to said employers and their employees; provided further, that on or before May 1, 2001, the division shall report to the house and senate committees on ways and means and the executive office of administration and finance on the specific measures taken to promote said participation, the number of said employers and their employees electing to participate in said program and the monthly costs of subsidies paid by the division on their behalf; provided further, that the division shall report monthly to the house and senate committees on ways and means and the executive office of administration and finance monthly expenditure data for said program, including the total number of employers participating in said program, the percentage of said employers who purchased health insurance for employees prior to participating in said program and total monthly expenditures delineated by payments to small employers and selfemployed persons for individual, two-person family and family subsidies; provided further, that the division shall seek federal reimbursement for said payments to employers; and provided further, that any and all federal reimbursements received for expenditures from this item, pursuant the provisions of Title XIX and Title XXI of the federal social security act, shall be credited to the Children's and Seniors' Health Care Assistance Fund..................................................$9,497,622

The Governor disapproved this section.
4000-0892
For the first year of a two-year demonstration project to promote and support access to health insurance for child care workers; provided, that said project shall be developed by the executive office of health and human services for implementation by the division not later than October 31, 2000; provided further, that said office shall file the proposed plan 30 days prior to implementation with the clerks of the house of representatives and the senate; provided further, that the cost of said project shall not annualize above the amount appropriated herein; and provided further, that said office shall, in conjunction with the office of child care services, collaborate with licensed child care providers to provide information to workers on health insurance programs ......................................................$2,000,000

4000-1000
For the purpose, notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, of making non-recurring payments to acute care hospitals by the division of medical assistance; provided, that the division shall collaborate with the division of health care finance and policy and the department of public health to determine the methodology by which to make such payments; provided further, that said division shall make such payments in a manner designed to achieve the greatest possible gains in patient care and public health, while maximizing federal financial participation; provided further, that said payments shall commence for the hospital fiscal year beginning October 1, 2000 and shall be completely payable within state fiscal year 2001; provided further, that said division shall file a report not later than September 1, 2000 with the house and senate committees on ways and means detailing: (i) the methodology used to determine such payments; (ii) the amount projected to be paid to each such acute care hospital in state fiscal year 2001; and (iii) the projected impact of such payments on patient care and the promotion of public health at each such facility; provided further, that any and all federal financial participation generated by said payments shall be credited by the comptroller to the Medical Security Trust Fund, established pursuant to subsection (k) of section 14G of chapter 151A of the General Laws; provided further, that an independent consultant, appointed and approved by the speaker of the house of representatives, the president of the senate, and the governor, shall conduct a study of medicaid reimbursement rates paid to acute hospitals, nonacute hospitals and community health centers licensed by the department of public health; provided further, that said study shall include: (i) a review of medicaid reimbursement rates to said hospitals and health centers from fiscal years 1992 to 2001, inclusive; (ii) a comparison of said rates to said hospitals and health centers in relation to the costs said hospitals incur in delivering services to medicaid beneficiaries; (iii) an evaluation of the adequacy of changes in such rates during said fiscal years compared with inflation in the costs of delivering care incurred by said hospitals and health centers, and other economic factors which may impact said hospital's operating margins; and, (iv) a review and analysis of medicaid reimbursement rates to said hospitals and health centers compared to medicaid payment rates to such facilities made by other states; provided further, that said independent consultant shall not have a financial interest in the hospitals or health centers under review; provided further, that said independent consultant shall consult with the division of medical assistance and the division of health care finance and policy and various health care providers and advocacy organizations in conducting said study; provided further, that said independent consultant shall file the initial findings of said study, which shall include an estimate of the aggregate cost of any recommended funding enhancements, with the secretary of administration and finance, the clerks of the house of representatives and the senate, and the senate and house committees on ways and means on or before October 15, 2000; provided further, that said secretary shall submit a plan detailing the process for implementing the findings of said study with the senate and house committees on ways and means on or before December 15, 2000; and provided further, that said independent consultant shall be funded from this item.......................$25,000,000

4000-1005
For the exclusive purpose of funding increases in wages and related employee costs for certified nurses' aides at nursing facilities; provided, that the division shall expend the entire amount appropriated herein to uniformly increase the wages of said aides; provided further, that the division of medical assistance and the division of health care finance and policy shall establish criteria for the disbursement of the funds appropriated herein and shall report to the senate committee on ways and means and the house committee on ways and means on said criteria not later than September 1, 2000; provided further, that said criteria shall mandate the degree to which such nursing facilities provide enhanced wages for certified nurses' aides; and provided further, that the division shall report to the senate and house committees on ways and means on the wage increases given at each facility by January 4, 2001..........................$35,000,000

4000-1400
For the purposes of expanding MassHealth benefits to a persons with a diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus, so called, with an incomes up to 200 per cent of the federal poverty level, subject to federal approval of an amendment to the medicaid state plan and Section 1115 waiver; provided, that said amendment shall be consistent with the provisions of section 9A of chapter 118E of the General Laws.........................................$10,000,000

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount, disapproved the wording as indicated and inserted in place there of the following wording below.
4000-1431
The division shall expend $3,824,000 from this item for the purpose of increasing the reimbursement rate paid to community health centers for services under contract with said division that are eligible for federal financial participation The division shall expend $3,324,000 from this item for the purpose of increasing the reimbursement rate paid to community health centers for services under contract with said division that are eligible for federal financial participation; provided, that said division shall expend $176,000 of the amount appropriated herein to increase the enhanced rate paid to said community health centers for extended hour medical visits so-called; and provided further, that the division shall seek to obtain the maximum amount of federal financial participation for expenditures from this item.......................$~~4,000,000~~ 3,500,000

4000-1450
For an interim catastrophic pharmacy assistance program; provided, that notwithstanding the provisions of section 313 of chapter 127 of the acts of 1999, any and all persons enrolled in said program shall continue to receive such assistance until March 31, 2001; and provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, any portion of the sum appropriated herein determined by the commissioner of medical assistance to be unneeded for the purposes set forth herein may be used for the purposes of items 4000-0450 and 4000-1451.............$7,000,000

4000-1451
For an actuarially-sound insurance program to cover the catastrophic costs of prescription drugs, pursuant to section 46; provided that not more than $2,000,000 shall be expended for the administration of said program; provided further, that said program shall commence on April 1, 2001 and shall immediately begin on an incremental and voluntary basis enrolling eligible persons who are enrolled on such date in the pharmacy assistance programs funded by items 4000-0450 and 4000-1450; provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, any portion of the sum appropriated herein determined by the commissioner of medical assistance to be unneeded for the purposes set forth herein above may be used for the purposes of said items 4000-0450 and 4000-1450; and provided further, that not less than $250,000, in conjunction with any private and federal funds, shall be allocated for the implementation of the pharmacy outreach program, established by section 4C of chapter 19A of the General Laws.........................................$32,200,000

The Governor disapproved this section.
4000-1500
For expanded pharmacy services for all children to age 18 who are receiving family assistance coverage-premium assistance, so-called, pursuant to section 16C of chapter 118E of the General Laws, section 223 of this act, and under the MassHealth demonstration project established pursuant to sections 9A and 9B of chapter 118E of the General Laws, to the extent that the policies of health insurance with respect to which premium assistance payments are being made for the benefit of such children do not cover such services; provided, that the division of medical assistance shall make such expenditures without regard to the availability of federal reimbursement; provided further, that the division shall seek to obtain federal reimbursement for such expenditures through an amendment to the MassHealth demonstration project waiver, so-called; provided further, that said amendment shall be consistent with said section 16C of said chapter 118E and section 223 of this act; and provided further, that the division shall pursue the highest level of federal reimbursement for the expenditures authorized herein..........................$750,000

4000-1504
For the purpose of increasing rates of payment to participating dental care providers in order to enhance access to and the quality of dental services for MassHealth beneficiaries; provided, that any rate increases provided for herein shall be promulgated effective July 1, 2000

For the complete fiscal year and that said increase shall be based upon the amount appropriated herein; provided further, that the division, in consultation with the division of health care finance and policy, may determine the specific services to which such rate increases shall apply; provided further, that said rate increases shall constitute a component of a multi-year, multicomponent MassHealth dental reform initiative, which shall include administrative reforms to promote increased provider participation; provided further, that the division shall submit a report detailing changes in the rate of dental provider participation and the number of dental visits and procedures provided to MassHealth beneficiaries, pursuant to section 457; and provided further, that said report shall also project any annualized costs resulting from such changes in participation and utilization which may cause the cost of dental services to exceed the amount appropriated herein in fiscal year 2002..................................$19,400,000

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 the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the assessment to acute hospitals authorized pursuant to section 5 of chapter 118G of the General Laws for the estimated expenses of the division shall be made pursuant to the provisions of section 344; 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 division of medical assistance, 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 the division shall share financial data and expertise about the Massachusetts health care industry with the Massachusetts institute for social and economic research for the purpose of enhancing, developing and marketing data products for the public; provided further, that the division and the institute shall share any revenue generated through sale, licensure, royalty and usage fees charged for said data products; and provided further, that, not later than February 24, 2001, the division shall submit to the comptroller and to the house and senate committees on ways and means a report describing the method by which the division shall generate revenues through said sale, licensure, royalty, and usage fees in an amount sufficient to meet 25 per cent of the projected costs of the division in any fiscal year, as required by section 612 of chapter 151 of the acts of 1996................$8,890,870

4100-0064
For the purposes of conducting semi-annual audits of wage increases and related employee costs for certified nurse's aides expended from item 4000- 1005; provided, that the division of health care finance and policy, in consultation with the division of medical assistance, shall recoup at a rate of not less than 150 per cent, any and all monies expended in violation of the provisions of said item 4000-1005; provided further, that nursing facilities receiving payments from said item shall certify in writing to said division that said payments are being used exclusively for the purposes enumerated in said item 4000-1005; provided further, that said written certification shall establish the amount projected to be paid in fiscal year 2001

For said increased wages and benefits; provided further, that said audit shall establish the veracity of such written certification; and provided further that the division shall submit to the house and senate committees on ways and means and the joint committee on health care a report at the end of said fiscal year on the amounts recouped in said fiscal year and projected to be recouped in fiscal year 2002 from violations of said provisions of said item 4000-1005.....................................$200,000

4110-0001
For the office of the commissioner and the bureau of research; provided, that amounts appropriated to the commission in fiscal year 2001 that extend or expand services beyond the level of services provided in fiscal year 2000 shall not annualize above said amounts in fiscal year 2002................$1,159,477

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; provided further, that the commission shall develop a proposal for an internet-based version of the talking information center to be submitted to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1, 2001; 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 said deaf-blind community access network..............................$4,093,938

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.....................$8,369,809

4110-1020
For eligibility determination for the medical assistance program for the blind; provided, that the commission shall work with the division of medical assistance, 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.................................................$421,813

4110-2000
For the turning 22 program of the commission, provided, that nothing stated herein shall give rise to or shall be construed as giving rise to enforceable legal rights in any party or an enforceable entitlement to the services funded herein; provided further, 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..................$7,798,576

4110-2001
For services to clients of the department who turn 22 years of age during state fiscal year 2001; provided, that the amount appropriated herein shall not annualize to more than $540,000 in fiscal year 2002; provided further, that nothing stated herein shall give rise to or shall be construed as giving rise to enforceable legal rights in any party or an enforceable entitlement to the services funded herein; provided further, 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.........................$320,000

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; provided further, that $163,000 of the amount appropriated herein shall be obligated for the purpose of mitigating inequitable reimbursement rates for the Carroll Center for the Blind; and provided further, that not less than $1,300,000 shall be expended for technological adaptations to increase vocational opportunities for the blind...........................$2,675,450

4110-4000
For the administration of the Ferguson Industries for the blind; provided, that retired workshop employees shall receive grants equal to threefourths of the salaries of current workshop employees; 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; and provided further, that $40,000 shall be expended on a cost of living adjustment to the blind workers in the workshop.........................$1,738,949

4120-1000
For the operation of the commission; provided, 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 the department 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; provided further, that said lists shall include client names and social security numbers and payee names and other identification, if different from a client's; and provided further, that amounts appropriated in items of the department that extend or expand services beyond the level of services provided in fiscal year 2000 shall not annualize above said amounts in fiscal year 2002.............................$367,321

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 not less than $155,000 shall be expended on special vocational projects in the Charlestown section of the city of Boston.............$7,520,413

4120-3000
For employment assistance services; provided, that vocational evaluation and employment services for severely physically disabled adults may, subject to appropriation, be provided; and provided further, that not less than $150,000 shall be expended for the Charlestown Navy Yard special project for physically disabled adults............................$9,025,618

4120-4000
For independent living assistance services; provided, that the commission shall provide the same level of services in fiscal year 2001 as provided in fiscal year 2000; provided further, that $15,000 shall be expended for Living Independently for Equality, Inc. of Brockton; provided further, that not more than $858,000 shall be expended for assistive technology devices and training for individuals with severe disabilities; provided further, that the commission shall expend not less than an additional $240,000 beyond the amount expended in fiscal year 2000

For such devices and training services; provided further, that $200,000 shall be obligated for the SHARE Foundation at the University of Massachusetts; and provided further, that not less than $400,000 shall be expended for the turning 22 program of the commission............................................$7,023,433

4120-5050
Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the Massachusetts rehabilitation commission may expend an amount not to exceed .....$2,000,000

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; and provided further, that the commission shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 3, 2001, detailing the use of any funds encumbered or expended from this item, including, but not limited to, the number of clients served, the types of services purchased and the annualized impact of said expenditures in the subsequent fiscal year.......$2,000,000

4120-6000
For head injured services; provided, that the commission shall work with the division of medical assistance to maximize federal reimbursement for clients receiving head injured services; and provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended for the Cape Cod head injury program......$6,923,277 4120-6001
For the additional expenses of providing head injured services; provided, that the commission shall expend not more than $250,000 to provide recurring residential services on a 24-hour basis to persons with severe head injuries in western Massachusetts; provided further, that the remaining funds not obligated to said western Massachusetts services shall be expended solely for the cost of nonrecurring services to the head injured; provided further, that said remaining funds shall not be used to supplant existing services provided under item 4120-6000; provided further, that all unexpended funds from this item shall revert to the Head Injury Treatment Services Trust Fund; provided further, that the commission shall perform outreach and provide information to the courts of the commonwealth regarding services provided through this item and the various revenue sources which fund the Head Injury Treatment Services Trust Fund; and provided further, that the commission shall report quarterly to the house and senate committees on ways and means and the secretary on administration and finance on the balance of the Head Injury Treatment Services Trust Fund and on the balance of said fund from the corresponding quarter of the prior fiscal year........................$750,000

4120-6002
The commission may expend an amount not to exceed $2,000,000 from fees collected pursuant to section 20 of chapter 90 of the General Laws for rehabilitation services for head injured persons; provided, that the commission shall report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than January 31, 2001, detailing the use of any funds encumbered or expended from this item, including, but not limited to, the number of clients served, the types of services purchased and the annualized impact of said expenditures in the subsequent fiscal years; provided further, that all unexpended funds from this item shall revert to the Head Injury Treatment Services Trust Fund; and provided further, that funds appropriated herein shall not be used to supplant existing services provided under item 4120-6000.........................$2,000,000

4125-0100
For the operation of and services provided by the Massachusetts commission for the deaf and hard of hearing; provided, that the commission shall expend $100,336
For the case management of children deemed eligible for such services from said commission, $50,000

For independent living services, so-called, and ................................$1,050,000

For interpreter and CART services, socalled; and provided further, that amounts appropriated in items of this department that extend or expand services beyond the level of services provided in fiscal year 2000 shall not annualize above said amounts in fiscal year 2002......$5,656,825

4125-0101
Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the Massachusetts commission for the deaf and hard of hearing may expend revenues in an amount not to exceed $105,000 from charges received on behalf of interpreter services and monies received from private grants, bequests, gifts or contributions; provided, 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 payments amounts not to exceed the lower of this authorization or the most recent revenue estimate as reported in the state accounting system..............$105,000

4130-0001
For the administration of the office of child care services; provided, that said office shall issue monthly reports detailing the number and average cost of voucher and contracted child care slots funded from items 4130-3200, 4130-3250, 4130-3300, 4130-3400, 4130-3500, 4130-3600 and 4130-3700 by category of eligibility; provided further, that said report shall include the number of recipients subject to the provisions of subsection (f) of section 110 of chapter 5 of the acts of 1995 funded under said items 4130-3200 and 4130-3700 that qualify for federal funding through the transitional aid to needy families fund; provided further, that said office shall report quarterly to the house and senate committees on ways and means and the secretary of administration and finance on the unduplicated number of children on waiting lists for state-subsidized child care; provided further, that the office shall administer the child care resource and referral system; provided further, that nothing contained herein shall be construed as limiting the office's authority to issue variances or grant licenses or certificates on a probationary basis as provided in 102 CMR 8.00 as in effect on May 28, 1993; provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, said office is hereby authorized and directed to perform postaudit reviews on a representative sample of the income eligibility determinations performed by vendors receiving funds from said items 4130-3200, 4130-3250, and 4130-3300; provided further, that said office shall report quarterly to the house and senate committees on ways and means and secretary of administration and finance on the error rate, if any, in income-eligibility determinations calculated by said post audit reviews; and provided further, that no funds from this item shall be expended for the DD subsidiary costs, so-called, of the children's trust fund, so-called.................. $2,394,001

4130-0002
For the administration of the children's trust fund ........................................................$985,574

4130-0005
For field operations licensing; provided, that no funds from this item shall be expended for family support services; provided further, that said office shall generate not less than $712,050 to be deposited in the General Fund from licensing fees and the sale of child care lists; and provided further, that no funds from this item shall be expended for the DD subsidiary costs, so-called, of the Children's Trust Fund.............................$6,906,493

4130-1000
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 such services shall be made available statewide to all parents under the age of 21 years within the amount appropriated herein.......$16,151,720

4130-2998
For one-time child care quality expenditures; provided, that not less than $173,937 shall be expended for activities to increase the supply of quality child care for infants and toddlers; provided further, that not less than $260,705 shall be expended for resource and referral and schoolage 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 the commissioner of child care services shall submit written certification to the secretary of administration and finance and 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 2001; and provided further, that no funds may be expended, obligated or transferred from this item prior to the submission of said certification..................$2,837,362

4130-3100
For the regional administration of child care programs and related child care activities; provided, that said activities shall include, but not be limited to, voucher management, child care provider training, resource and referral for children with disabilities in child care programs, community-based programs that provide direct services to parents, and coordination of waiting lists for state-subsidized child care; provided further, that a minimum of $650,000 shall be expended through child care resource and referral programs for child care provider training; provided further, that not less than $190,000 shall be expended to provide child care services for children with disabilities in child care programs; and provided further, that no funds shall be expended from this item for AA subsidiary payroll expenses, so-called..................................$12,255,481

The Governor reduced the following items to the following amount.
4130-3200
For the employment services voucher and contracted child care program; provided, that the employment services child care program shall be available for recipients of benefits provided under the program of transitional aid to families with dependent children and the absent parents of said recipients; provided further, that child care funded from this item shall be available to former recipients of said program who are working for up to one year after termination of said benefits; provided further, that child care slots shall be distributed geographically in a manner which provides fair and adequate access to child care for all eligible individuals; provided further, that said office is hereby authorized to provide child care benefits to certain other former recipients of said program who are participating in education or training in compliance with regulations promulgated by the department of transitional assistance; provided further, that all child care providers that are part of a public school system shall be required to accept child care vouchers from recipients funded through this appropriation; and provided further, that the department is hereby authorized to provide child care benefits to parents currently enrolled in a job training program who are under the age of 18 and who would qualify for benefits under the provisions of chapter 118 of the General Laws but for the deeming of the grandparents' income..........$~~94,381,207~~ 91,719,296

4130-3250
For the provision of post-transitional child care vouchers for former recipients of the program of transitional aid to families with dependent children; provided, that child care funded from this item shall remain available to such former recipients who have been working for more than one year after termination of said transitional aid benefits.............................................$56,585,255

4130-3300
For the provision of income-eligible child care slots...............................................$113,625,105

4130-3400
For the provision of child care services to the children of: (a) teen parents attending high school and receiving transitional aid to families with dependent children benefits pursuant to subsection (i) of section 110 of chapter 5 of the acts of 1995; (b) teen parents receiving supplemental security income payments who participate in school, education, work and training-related activities or a combination thereof and whose dependent children receive said aid; and (c) teen parents who participate in school, education, work and training related activities or a combination thereof and who are at risk of becoming eligible for transitional aid to families with dependent children benefits; provided, that the office of child care services, in consultation with the department of transitional assistance and the department of social services, shall allocate from this item funds sufficient to ensure the priority of provision of child care services first to children of teen parents in category (a), then category (b), and lastly, category (c); provided further, that nothing stated herein shall give rise to or shall be construed as giving rise to enforceable legal rights or an enforceable entitlement to services other than to the extent that such rights or entitlements exist pursuant to regulations promulgated for the transitional aid to families with dependent children program; and provided further, that all teens eligible for year-round full-time child 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 said program of transitional aid, whether or not such teens are recipients of benefits under said program of transitional aid.....................$10,081,339

4130-3500
For the provision of trial court child care services; provided, that $127,553 shall be expended for child care services in the Roxbury trial court; provided further, that $152,925 shall be expended for child care services in the Springfield trial court; provided further, that $97,674 shall be expended for child care services in the West Roxbury trial court; provided further, that $255,938 shall be expended for child care services in the Middlesex trial court; provided further, that $175,000 shall be expended for child care at Dorchester district court; provided further, that $175,000 shall be expended for trial court child care in Lawrence; provided further, that $250,000 shall be expended for child care at the Suffolk county court complex; provided further, that not less than $175,000 shall be expended for child care services in the Fall River trial court; provided further, that $200,000 shall be expended for child care services in the Chelsea trial court; and provided further, that $300,000 shall be expended for child care services in the Brockton trial court...........................................$1,909,090

4130-3600
For supportive child care associated with the family stabilization program; provided, that funds from this item shall only be expended for child care costs of children with active cases at the department of social services; and provided further, that no funds shall be expended for "extended vouchers", so-called.......................$47,997,242

4130-3700
For the provision of informal child care benefits; provided, that not more than $2.00 per child per hour shall be paid for such services.................$13,080,837

4180-0100
For the maintenance and operation of the Soldiers' Home in Massachusetts located in the city of Chelsea, including a specialized unit for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease patients; provided, that not less than $31,000 shall be expended for the purposes of providing psychiatric services to the residents and patients at said soldiers' home.......................................$20,941,394

4180-1100
The Soldiers' Home in Massachusetts located in the city of Chelsea may expend revenues up to a maximum of $157,000

For facility maintenance and patient care, including personnel costs; provided, that 60 per cent of all revenues generated pursuant to section 2 of chapter 90 of the General Laws, through the purchase of license plates with the designation VETERAN by eligible veterans of the commonwealth, upon compensating the registry of motor vehicles for the cost associated with said license plates, shall be deposited into and for the purposes of this retained revenue account of the soldiers' home in Massachusetts located in the city of Chelsea; 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 soldiers' home in Massachusetts located in the city of Chelsea 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, prior appropriation continued...................$157,000

4190-0100
For the maintenance and operation of the Soldiers' Home in Holyoke including the adult day care program; provided, that not less than $111,280 shall be expended to expand dental clinic hours to 40 hours per week....................................$15,922,648

4190-0102
The Soldiers' Home in Holyoke may expend for the outpatient pharmacy program an amount not to exceed $99,000 from co-payments charged to users of said program; provided, that the rates of said copayments and the procedures for the administration thereof shall annually be determined by the superintendent of said Soldiers' Home and approved by the secretary of health and human services; 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, said Soldiers' Home 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...............$99,000

4190-1100
The Soldiers' Home in Holyoke may expend revenues up to a maximum of $113,000

For facility maintenance and patient care, including personnel costs; provided, that 40 per cent of all revenues generated pursuant to section 2 of chapter 90 of the General Laws, through the purchase of license plates with the designation VETERAN by eligible veterans of the commonwealth, upon compensating the registry of motor vehicles for the cost associated with said license plates, shall be deposited into and for the purposes of this retained revenue account of the Soldiers' Home in Holyoke; 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 Soldiers' Home in Holyoke 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, prior appropriation continued.................................$113,000

4190-1103
For a one-time purchase of medical-related equipment for said soldiers' home; provided, that said home shall submit a report detailing the purchase and expenditures of each medical-related equipment; and provided further, that the report shall include, but not limited to, the expenditures of health-related examinations performed outside of said home during the years 2000 and 2001 not later than February 1, 2001...................................$375,000

4200-0010
For the administration of the department of youth services; provided, that the department shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1, 2001, detailing the caseload for all department programs funded in items 4200-0100, 4200-0200 and 4200-0300; provided further, that the commissioner of youth services, in conjunction with the department of education, shall submit a report on the status of educational resources at the department of youth services; provided further, that said report shall review teacher retention, salary comparisons within the department and to statewide averages, and related impact on the quality of educational services provided to youths in the custody of the department; provided further, that said report shall include recommendations for the improvement of educational resources and costs associated with said improvements; provided further, that said study shall be submitted to the house and senate committees on ways and means no later than February 1, 2001; and provided further, that $30,000 shall be encumbered for the procurement of private consultants to aid in the development of said report................................................$5,004,162

4200-0100
For supervision, counseling, and other communitybased services provided to committed youths in non-residential care programs of the department; provided, that the commissioner is hereby authorized to transfer up to 5 per cent of the amount appropriated herein to items 4200-0200 and 4200-0300 of section 2; and provided further, that 30 days before any such transfer is made, said 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....................................$19,821,380

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount, disapproved the wording as indicated and inserted in place there of the following wording below.
4200-0200
For pre-trial detention programs, including purchase-of-service and state-operated programs~~; provided, that not less than $1,812,500 shall be encumbered for the partial-year costs of establishing and operating two additional state-run detention centers~~ ; provided, that not less than $906,250 shall be encumbered for the partial-year costs of establishing and operating two additional state-run detention centers; provided further, that of said two centers, one shall be placed in the central area and one shall be placed in the southeast area, so-called; provided further, that said amount shall not be used for any purposes other than those specifically identified herein; provided further, that the commissioner is hereby authorized to transfer up to 5 per cent of the amount appropriated herein to items 4200-0100 and 4200- 0300; and provided further, that 30 days before any such transfer is made, said commissioner shall file with the secretary of administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means a plan showing the amounts to be transferred and the reason for the proposed transfer.............$~~14,734,894~~ 13,828,644

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount, disapproved the wording as indicated and inserted in place there of the following wording below.
4200-0300
For secure facilities, including purchase-ofservice and state-operated programs incidental to the operations of said facilities; provided, that not less than $250,000 be expended for "noncontracted services", so-called, located within the commonwealth~~; provided, that not less than $1,187,500 shall be encumbered for the partial-year costs of the procurement of two additional residential treatment programs~~ provided, that not less than $593,750 shall be encumbered for the partial-year costs of the procurement of two additional residential treatment program ; provided further, that of said two programs, one shall be placed in the central area and one shall be placed in the southeast area, so-called; provided further, that said amount shall not be used for any purposes other than those specifically identified herein; provided further, that the commissioner is hereby authorized to transfer up to 3 per cent of the amount appropriated herein to items 4200-0100 and 4200-0200; and provided further, that 30 days before any such transfer is made, said commissioner shall file with the secretary of administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means a plan showing the amounts to be transferred and the reason for the proposed transfer.............................................$~~77,829,495~~ 77,235,745

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 2001 the department shall maintain two transitional assistance offices in the city of Springfield; provided further, that said department shall develop a pilot program to extend office hours of the four local transitional assistance offices that serve the largest number of recipients for not less than three days per week, including one weekend day; provided further, that said extended hours shall include the hours of 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on weekdays in order to reasonably accommodate recipients that are employed, that have community service obligations, that are participating in training programs, that have health barriers, or that have transportation barriers; provided further, that said offices shall be located in safe and publicly accessible buildings; provided further, that said department shall implement said pilot program not later than January 1, 2001; provided further, that the department shall staff said pilot program to extend office hours on a volunteer basis; provided further, that nothing in this item shall authorize, require or permit the commonwealth to abrogate, in whole or in part any agreement, including any collective bargaining agreement, negotiated with any employee organization under chapter 150E or to interfere with or detract from the rights of any employee under chapter 31; provided further, that said department shall study the costs of implementing extended office hours for all local transitional assistance offices and shall report the results of said study to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than October 1, 2000; provided further, that all costs associated with verifying disability for all programs of the department shall be paid from this item; provided further, that associated expenses of employees whose AA subsidiary payroll costs, socalled, are paid from item 4400-1100 of section 2 shall be paid from this item; provided further, that the department shall collect all out-of-court settlement restitution payments, so-called; provided further, that said restitution payments shall include, but not be limited to, installment and lump sum payments; provided further, 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 department of revenue, the total value of said settlement restitution payments, actual monthly collections, and any circumstances that produce shortfalls in said collections; provided further, that notwithstanding any provision of general or special law to the contrary, unless otherwise expressly provided, federal reimbursements, other than transitional aid to needy families funds, received for the purposes of the department, including reimbursements for administrative, fringe and overhead costs, for fiscal year 2001 and prior fiscal years, shall be credited to the General Fund; 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, public assistance caseloads and benefits; and provided further, that said report shall comprehensively track statewide use of the emergency assistance program by eligibility category including, but not limited to, caseload, average length of use or stay, and monthly expenditures.........................................$77,271,637

4400-1025
For domestic violence specialists at local area offices.................................................$551,281

4400-1100
For AA subsidiary payroll, so-called, of the department caseworkers; provided, that only employees of bargaining unit eight, shall be paid from this item; and provided further, that any other expenses associated with said employees shall be paid from items 4400-1000 and 4400-9999...........$58,693,477

4400-9999
For the payment of charges assessed for all employees of the department for the costs of workers' compensation, unemployment insurance, Medicare taxes, health security plan, and the group insurance commission extended leave chargeback, socalled; provided, that notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, prior to April 15, 2001 all funds appropriated herein shall be scheduled in the DD subsidiary, so-called; provided further, that after said date, the commissioner of transitional assistance, with the approval of the secretary of administration and finance, is hereby authorized to transfer from said DD subsidiary to the KK subsidiary, so-called, or the NN subsidiary, socalled, of this account, an amount not to exceed 15 per cent of the funds appropriated herein, if the secretary of administration and finance certifies in writing to the house and senate committees on ways and means that the following conditions have been met: (1) that the charges owed by the department for workers' compensation, unemployment insurance, Medicare taxes, health security plan, and the group insurance commission extended leave chargeback are less than the amount appropriated herein; (2) that the department does not require any supplemental appropriation in any of its other items of appropriation; (3) that the department is expected to meet the revenue targets established in sections 1A and 1B; and (4) that the department has not expended any funds for the payment of workers compensation, unemployment insurance, Medicare taxes, health security plan, and the group insurance commission extended leave chargeback, so-called, in any of its other items of appropriation; provided further, that the secretary of administration and finance shall notify the house and senate committees on ways and means of all transfers of funds between subsidiaries as authorized herein; and provided further, that no funds shall be scheduled to any subsidiary in this account which is not explicitly referenced herein.....$1,121,198

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 and the absent parents of said recipients; provided, that certain parents who have not yet reached the age of 18 years, 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 the department may allocate funds from this item to other agencies, including community colleges in the commonwealth, for the purposes of the employment services program; provided further, that no funds from this item shall be expended for child care or informal child care; provided further, that $300,000 shall be expended for the parent's fair share program operated by sSpectra management services corporation, Inc., of Springfield; provided further, that not less than $3,944,690 shall be expended for young parent programs; provided further, that not less than $250,000 shall be expended for job training and job placement services for homeless individuals statewide through the MASS CAN program; provided further, that the payments for the costs of transportation to an approved activity by means other than public transportation or private automobile shall be permitted only when transportation by public means or private automobile is not reasonably available and affordable, and shall be subject to reasonable maximums determined by the department; provided further, that the annualized value of the programs funded in this item shall not exceed in fiscal year 2002 the amount appropriated herein; and provided further, that the department shall notify the house and senate committees on ways and means of all allocations made from this item......................$24,825,327

The Governor disapproved the wording as indicated below.
4401-1001
For a reserve to fund additional services for recipients of the transitional aid to families with dependent children program; provided, that funds from this item may be expended on former recipients of said program for up to one year after termination of their benefits due to employment or the provisions of subsection (f) of section 110 of chapter 5 of the acts of 1995; provided further, that the department may use funds from this item to fund intensive case management efforts for said recipients that may include, but need not be limited to, ongoing family support, community-based referrals, domestic violence referrals, substance abuse referrals, emergency assistance, job search assistance, technical assistance and other social service referrals; provided further, that up to $2,000,000 may be obligated for mentoring programs, including up to $250,000

For a mentoring program in Hampshire county; provided further, that not less than $1,000,000 shall be expended from this item for certified nurses' aide training programs and for adult education programs, including but not limited to, programs targeted to assist recipients who wish to become certified nurses' aides but who are not qualified to do so because of insufficient reading or math levels to attain such reading or math level; provided further, that such programs shall be made available to recipients in each service delivery area, so-called; provided further, that $100,000 shall be expended for employment support services specifically designed to provide job support to recipients and former recipients working as certified nurses' aides, including, but not limited to, counseling and supports regarding transportation, access to child care, including off-hour child care, and domestic violence; provided further, that up to $4,000,000 may be spent on community college scholarships for degree programs and for other certified post-secondary educational programs; provided further, that funds from this item may be expended for employment and training courses, re-employment services, job retention services, structured subsidized employment services, adult basic education, graduate equivalency degree courses or English as a second language courses; provided further, that funds from this item may be spent on emergency work-related expenses for said recipients, including emergency transportation costs; provided further, that up to $5,000,000 may be expended for additional transportation services, including public transportation services; provided further, that said department shall assess the skill level of each recipient three months prior to the loss of eligibility for said transitional benefits; provided further, that said assessments shall be limited to recipients who lack a high school or graduate equivalency degree; provided further, that said assessments shall determine reading levels, math levels, English proficiency, and work history; provided further, that said assessments shall determine if said recipients face substantial barriers to employability including, but not limited to, disabilities, child behavioral problems, substance abuse or domestic violence; provided further, that said department shall document the results of said assessments, including the basis for making a determination that a recipient faces substantial barriers to employability; provided further, that said department shall report to the house and senate committees on ways and means on the findings of said assessments on or before February 1, 2001; provided further, that no funds shall be expended from this item for cash assistance; provided further, that nothing herein shall give rise to or shall be construed as giving rise to enforceable legal rights in any party or an enforceable entitlement to services; provided further, that said department shall provide a status report on fiscal year 2001 expenditures to date and anticipated remaining fiscal year 2001 expenditures made from this item to the house and senate committees on ways and means no later than February 1, 2001; and provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the comptroller is hereby authorized and directed to transfer any unexpended balance remaining in this item at the close of the fiscal year to the Caseload Increase Mitigation Fund, established by section 2NN of chapter 29 of the General Laws.........................................$15,028,478

The Governor disapproved the wording as indicated below.
4403-2000
For a program of transitional aid to families with dependent children; provided, that notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, benefits from this item shall be paid only to citizens of the United States and to noncitizens for whom federal funds may be used to provide benefits; provided further, that the need standard shall be equal to the standard in effect in fiscal year 2000 adjusted by an additional 10 per cent; 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 2001, pursuant to the provisions of 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 said 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 non-recurring children's clothing allowance in the amount of $150 shall be provided to each child eligible under this program in September 2000; provided further, that said children's clothing allowance shall be included in the standard of need for the month of September, 2000; 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 on child abuse, 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 the provisions of 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 three-month period following 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 not less than $308,074 shall be expended for the purposes of the operation of the transportation assistance program operated by the traveler's aid society of Boston; 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 said department shall provide oral and written notification to all recipients of their child care benefits on a semiannual basis; provided further, that said notification shall include the full range of child care options available, including center-based child care, so-called, family-based child care, socalled, and in-home relative child care, so-called; provided further, that said notification shall detail available child care benefits for current and former recipients, including employment and training benefits, transitional benefits, socalled, and post-transitional benefits, so-called; provided further, that said department shall work with the office of child care services to ensure that both recipient currently receiving benefits and former recipient during the one year period following termination of benefits are provided written and verbal information about child care services; provided further, that said department shall submit said notification to the house and senate committees on and ways and means not later than October 1, 2000 and shall commence oral and written notification to all recipients not later than December 1, 2000; provided further, that said 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 said 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 the provisions of any general or special law or of this item to the contrary, 30 days before implementing any eligibility or benefit changes, or both, 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 said program will be insufficient to meet projected expenses and a report setting forth the basis for, and text of, such proposed changes; and provided further, that notwithstanding the provision of any special or general law to the contrary, the comptroller is hereby authorized and directed to transfer any unexpended balance remaining in this item at the close of the fiscal year to the Caseload Increase Mitigation Fund, established by section 2NN of chapter 29 of the General Laws.......$243,144,221

The Governor disapproved the wording as indicated below.
4403-2002
For a program of supplemental transitional aid to families with dependent children pursuant to the provisions of section 210 of chapter 43 of the acts of 1997; provided, that benefits under this item shall be provided only to persons who are not citizens of the United States, and for whom, pursuant to section 401, 402 or 403 of the federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, 8 U.S.C. section 1611, 1612 or 1613, federal funds may not be used to provide benefits pursuant to chapter 118 of the General Laws, but who are qualified aliens within the meaning of section 431 of said Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, 8 U.S.C. section 1641 or are otherwise permanently residing in the United States under color of law; provided further, that the number of assistance units receiving benefits funded from this item at any one time shall not exceed the number of assistance units comprised of qualified aliens or persons permanently residing under color of law which were receiving benefits provided under item 4403-2000 of chapter 151 of the acts of 1996 on June 1, 1997, plus 640 assistance units; provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law, or any provisions of 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 2000 adjusted by an additional 10 per cent; 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 2001 pursuant to the provisions of the state plan required under the personal responsibility and work opportunity reconciliation act of 1996, socalled; provided further, that the department shall notify all teenage parents receiving benefits from said 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 non-recurring children's clothing allowance in the amount of $150 shall be provided to each child eligible under this program in September 2000; provided further, that said children's clothing allowance shall be included in the standard of need for the month of September, 2000; 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 on child abuse, nor to adult recipients otherwise eligible for supplemental 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 the provisions of 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 three-month period following 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 supplemental 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 said department shall provide oral and written notification to all recipients of their child care benefits on a semiannual basis; provided further, that said notification shall include the full range of child care options available, including centerbased child care, so-called, family-based child care, so-called, and in-home relative child care, so-called; provided further, that said notification shall detail available child care benefits for current and former recipients, including employment and training benefits, transitional benefits, socalled, and post-transitional benefits, so-called; provided further, that said department shall submit said notification to the house and senate committees on and ways and means not later than October 1, 2000 and shall commence oral and written notification to all recipients not later than December 1, 2000; provided further, that said 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 said program, the department shall take into account the amounts available to it for expenditure by this item so as not to exceed the appropriation; and provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law or of this item to the contrary, 30 days before implementing any eligibility or benefit changes or both to the program, 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 said program will be insufficient to meet projected expenses and a report setting forth the basis for, and text of, such proposed changes.........$5,740,772

4403-2013
The department may expend an amount not to exceed $22,824,844, in accordance with the provisions of items 4403-2000 of section 2, accrued from child support payments collected pursuant to Title IV-D of the Social Security Act, for the purposes of the program of transitional aid to families with dependent children...................................$22,824,844

The Governor disapproved the wording as indicated below.
4403-2110
For expenses of the emergency assistance program directly attributable to rent liability; provided, that families with income under 130 per cent of the federal poverty level, that would otherwise be eligible for rent arrearage benefits but for their income, shall be eligible for rent arrearage benefits; provided further, that no funds shall be expended for heat or utility arrearages, so-called; provided further, that the department may provide limited related services in the event of a disaster as defined by regulations promulgated by the department; provided further, that said services shall be defined as payments for advance rent, security deposits, sheltering, housing search, food, clothing and housing supplies; provided further, that in promulgating, amending, or rescinding regulations with respect to eligibility or benefits under said 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 the provisions of any general or special law or this item to the contrary, 30 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 said program will be insufficient to meet projected expenses and a report setting forth such proposed changes; provided further, that the department shall prepare and promulgate rules and regulations to prevent abuse in the emergency assistance program in items 4403-2110 and 4403-2120 of section 2; provided further, that said rules and regulations shall include, but not be limited to, a year-to-year cross-check of recipients to determine if a person has received similar benefits in the previous 36 months; provided further, that if a person has utilized emergency assistance benefits more than once within 36 months, the department is hereby authorized and directed to place said person on a protective payment schedule for the entire period during which said person is receiving said benefits; provided further, that no advance payments shall be paid in fiscal year 2001; 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 and shall not be provided to illegal or undocumented aliens; provided further, that nothing herein shall give rise to or shall be construed as giving rise to enforceable legal rights in any party or an enforceable entitlement to services other than to the extent that such rights or entitlements exist pursuant to the regulations promulgated by the department or section 210 of chapter 43 of the acts of 1997; provided further, that nothing in the preceding proviso shall authorize the department to alter eligibility criteria or benefit levels, except to the extent that such changes are needed to avoid a deficiency in this item; and provided further, that no emergency assistance expenditures shall be paid from this item unless explicitly authorized herein...$11,992,996

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; provided, that not more than $800,000 shall be expended for the teen living program waitlist, so-called; and provided further, that not more than $540,000 of said $800,000 shall be made available for teen victims of domestic violence through the department of social services....$6,224,206

4403-2120
For certain expenses of the emergency assistance program as herein delineated:

(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, socalled;
(vi) hotel and motel payments on behalf of homeless families; and
(vii) voucher shelters, socalled; provided, that families with income under 130 per cent of the federal poverty level, that would otherwise be eligible for family shelter emergency assistance benefits but for their income, shall be eligible for family shelter benefits; provided further, that no funds may be expended for heat or utility arrearages, so-called; provided further, that the department shall not expend more for the hotel and motel emergency assistance program in fiscal year 2001 than was expended in fiscal year 2000; provided further, that in promulgating, amending, or rescinding regulations with respect to eligibility or benefits under said 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 herein; provided further, that the department is authorized to enter into an interagency service agreement in an amount not to exceed $4,764,992 with the department of housing and community development for a program to prevent homelessness; provided further, that the department shall promulgate regulations to prevent abuse in the emergency assistance program in items 4403-2110 and in this item of section 2; provided further, that said rules and regulations shall include but not be limited to a year-to-year cross-check of recipients to determine if a person has received similar benefits in the previous 36 months; provided further, that if a person has utilized emergency assistance benefits more than once within 36 months, the department is hereby authorized and directed to place said person on a protective payment schedule for the entire period during which said person is receiving said benefits; provided further, that no advance payments shall be paid in fiscal year 2001; provided further, that an otherwise eligible household shall be authorized for temporary emergency shelter even if that household has been authorized to receive a rental arrearage payment within the past 12 months; provided further, that in fiscal year 2001 said department shall make available to homeless families at least 20 new non-hotel/motel shelter units; provided further, that said additional units shall be geographically situated to maximize the number of families that can be sheltered within 20 miles of their homes communities; provided further, that an eligible household shall be sheltered within 20 miles of its home community, unless such household requests otherwise; provided further, that if no such shelter placement is available within 20 miles because of lack of vacancies, the household size or composition of such a homeless family, or the concerns of the department regarding the performance and administration of a particular shelter, said household shall be placed in the closest possible appropriate shelter beyond said 20 miles; provided further, that said household shall be transferred to an appropriate shelter within 20 miles of its community at the earliest possible date, unless the household requests otherwise; provided further, that placements made beyond the 20 mile limit shall be reported on a quarterly basis to the secretary of administration and finance, the joint committee on human services and elderly affairs, and the house and senate committees on ways and means; provided further, that $49,999 shall be expended for self-esteem Boston, so-called; provided further, that no emergency assistance expenditures shall be paid from this item unless explicitly authorized by this item; 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 and shall not be provided to illegal or undocumented aliens; provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, 30 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 representative and the senate a determination by the secretary of health and human services that available appropriations for said program will be insufficient to meet projected expenses and a report setting forth such proposed changes; provided further, that nothing herein shall give rise to or shall be construed as giving rise to enforceable legal rights in any party or an enforceable entitlement to services other than to the extent that such rights or entitlements exist pursuant to the regulations promulgated by the department; and provided further, that nothing in the preceding proviso shall authorize the department to alter eligibility criteria or benefit levels, except to the extent that such changes are needed to avoid a deficiency in this item.........................................$41,997,511

4404-1000
For a program of nutritional assistance to residents of the commonwealth who are qualified aliens within the meaning of section 431 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, so-called, and noncitizens otherwise permanently residing under color of law in the United States; provided, that such a resident shall be eligible for such benefits only if such resident (1) is ineligible for federal food stamp benefits pursuant to the provisions of sections 401, 402 or 403 of such Act, (2) would be eligible for federally funded food stamps, but for his citizenship status, and (3) has resided in the commonwealth for at least 60 days; provided further, that priority in the distribution of such benefits shall be given to persons who were receiving federally funded food stamps in fiscal year 1997 but were rendered ineligible for such benefits by operation of said sections 401, 402 or 403; provided further, that the benefit levels established for such program shall, to the extent feasible, replicate the equivalent levels in effect for the federal food stamp program as of June 30, 1997, but shall be reduced by a consistent percentage across all benefit levels to the extent necessary not to exceed the amounts appropriated herein; provided further, that such benefits may be distributed by electronic benefit transfer to the extent such distribution does not jeopardize otherwise available federal funding or impede the effective distribution of such benefits; provided further, that not more than $500,000 shall be expended on a food stamps outreach program; provided further, that the department shall provide, to the extent allowable under federal law, food stamps benefits not later than seven days after the date of application to any household in which all members are homeless individuals and that meet the income and resource criteria for federally funded coupons; provided further, that said department shall report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than November 1, 2000 on the costs of expanding benefits for said item in accordance with the new regulations issued by the United States department of agriculture for fiscal year 2001; and provided further, that nothing herein shall give rise to or shall be construed as giving rise to enforceable legal rights in any party or an enforceable entitlement to services, other than to the extent that such rights or entitlements exist pursuant to the regulations promulgated by said department consistent with this item.............................$7,753,772

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 division of medical assistance, is hereby authorized to fund an optional supplemental living arrangement category under the supplemental security income program that makes payments to persons living in assisted living residences certified pursuant to chapter 19D of the General Laws who meet the income and clinical eligibility criteria established by the department and said division; provided further, that said optional category of payments shall only be administered in conjunction with the medicaid group adult foster care benefit; and provided further, that the expenses of a program to assist recipients of the program of emergency aid to the elderly, disabled and children in becoming eligible for said supplemental security income program may be paid from this item......................................$198,866,409

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, that the department may allocate funds to other agencies for the purposes of this program; provided further, that the department shall notify the house and senate committees on ways and means of all such allocations; provided further, that $1,047,295 shall be expended for the health care for the homeless programs in Boston, Worcester and Springfield, including not less than $592,325

For the Boston health care for the homeless program; provided further, that not less than $50,820 shall be expended for the provision of health services to the homeless and uninsured by primary care and mental health, inc., located in the city of Lynn; provided further, that not less than $275,776 shall be expended for our fathers house in Fitchburg; provided further, that not less than $2,284,698 shall be expended for the Massachusetts housing and shelter alliance; provided further, that not less than $731,448 shall be expended for the Middlesex shelter in Lowell; provided further, that not less than $505,832 shall be expended for the Middlesex human service agency in the city of Waltham; provided further, that not less than $433,620 shall be expended for the Boston rescue mission; provided further, that not less than $310,458 shall be expended for the market ministries shelter in New Bedford; provided further, that not less than $13,129,079 shall be expended for a contract with the Pine street inn located in the city of Boston; provided further, that $200,000 shall be expended for a contract with the Pine street inn in the city of Boston for the purposes of a second nighttime van and the associated personnel costs; provided further, that not less than $1,307,864 shall be expended for a contract with Saint Francis house for a comprehensive multi-service day treatment program for the homeless in the city of Boston; provided further, that not less than a total of $5,967,379 shall be expended for the PIP shelter in Worcester, the daybreak shelter in Lawrence, the Long Island shelter in Boston, and the Long Island annex in Boston; provided further, that not less than $276,593 shall be expended for the friends of the homeless shelter in Springfield; provided further, that $555,630 shall be expended for the Cambridge salvation army; provided further, that not less than $389,019 from this item shall be expended for a contract with servicenet, Inc. to operate homeless shelters in Hampshire and Franklin counties; provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, $184,271 shall be obligated for a contract with the SHADOWS project in Ashland, for the provision of shelter services to homeless women; provided further, that not less than $690,873 shall be expended for the Quincy interfaith sheltering coalition; provided further, that not less than $240,900 shall be expended for the samaritan inn homeless shelter in Westfield; provided further, that not less than $233,117 shall be expended for a shelter operated by emmaus, inc. of Haverhill; provided further, that not less than $129,361 shall be expended for the Marlborough shelter program, so-called; provided further, that $150,513 shall be expended for the meadows program, so-called; provided further, that $301,946 shall be expended for the turning point program, so-called; provided further, that not less than $208,529 shall be expended for a contract with the Berkshire county chapter of the American red cross; provided further, that not less than $90,000 shall be expended for a contract with the Mary E. Sargent house to provide transitional housing services to women and children; provided further, that not less than $220,356 shall be expended for a contract with the Somerville homeless coalition; provided further, that not less than $514,524 shall be expended for a contract with the housing assistance corporation in Hyannis; provided further, that not less than $142,588 shall be expended for the project place day services program in the city of Boston; provided further, that not less than $42,000 shall be expended for a contract with the Hyannis salvation army; provided further, that not less than $60,000 shall be expended for a contract with the Saint Francis samaritan house in Taunton; provided further, that not less than $418,541 shall be expended for a contract with mainspring house in Brockton; provided further, that an additional $139,821 shall be expended for open pantry community services, Inc. in Springfield; provided further, that not less than $212,901 shall be expended for shelter, inc.; provided further, that $1,400,000 shall be expended to create programs with YMCA and YWCA organizations and other providers of housing through contracts with the Massachusetts housing and shelter alliance for not less than 200 transitional units; and provided further, that at least as many shelter spaces as were provided for homeless families and individuals during fiscal year 2000 shall be made available in fiscal year 2001..................................$34,940,129

4406-7000
For an individual homeless tracking system; provided, that the department is hereby authorized and directed to develop a system for tracking and reporting on individual persons using homeless shelters; provided further, that said system shall collect information on the age, race, ethnicity, gender, disability status, housing history, educational status, and employability of such homeless persons; provided further, that said system shall track shelter utilization patterns of such persons across state agencies, including the utilization of services provided by the departments of housing and community development, mental health, mental retardation, corrections, veterans services, youth services, social services, public health, and the division of medical assistance; provided further, that said system shall determine the following: the average turnover rate per bed; the number of homeless individuals that have been in shelter for less than six months; the number that have been in shelter for more than six months but less than one year; the number that have been in shelter for more than one year but less than three years; and the number that have been in shelter for more than three years; and provided further, that said department shall report quarterly to the house and senate committees on ways and means on the time-line for implementing said tracking and reporting system......................$200,000

The Governor disapproved the wording as indicated below.
4408-1000
For a program of cash assistance to certain residents of the commonwealth pursuant to chapter 117A of the General Laws, entitled emergency aid to the elderly, disabled and children found by the department to be eligible for such aid, pursuant to regulations promulgated by said 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, so-called, 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 a $35 rent allowance, to the extent possible within the amount of this appropriation, shall be paid to all households incurring a rent or mortgage expense and not residing in public housing or subsidized housing; 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 him or herself and which have 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, to otherwise eligible students under age 21 who are regularly attending a full time grade, high school, technical or vocational school not beyond the secondary level 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 said chapter 118 and under said 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 said person otherwise meets the eligibility criteria described herein and defined by regulations of the department; provided further, that any person incarcerated in a correctional institution shall not be eligible for benefits under said 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 promulgate emergency regulations pursuant to chapter 30A of the General Laws to implement the changes to this program required by this act 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 herein 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 herein; provided further, that the department may promulgate emergency regulations pursuant to chapter 30A of the General Laws to implement these eligibility or benefit changes or both; provided further, that nothing herein shall be construed as creating any right accruing to recipients of the former general relief program; provided further, that the secretary of health and human services shall report monthly to the house and senate committees on ways and means for the preceding month on the number of persons applying for benefits under this program, by category, age and disability, if any, and the number of persons receiving and denied benefits under this program by category, age and disability, if any; 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 said program that are returned to the department, not to exceed an amount of $14,437,383 shall be credited to this account and may be expended without further appropriation for the purposes of this program; provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the funds made available herein shall be the only funds available for said programs, and the department shall not spend funds for said program in excess of the amount made available herein; and provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law, or of this item to the contrary, 30 days before implementing any eligibility or benefit changes, or both, 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 said program will be insufficient to meet projected expenses and a report setting such proposed changes .....................................................$42,439,856

4510-0100
For the operation of the department; provided, that the position of assistant commissioner shall not be subject to chapter 31 of the General Laws; provided further, that $25,000 shall be expended to provide publications on health care issues in alternative formats for the print disabled, including, but not limited to, braille or large print; and provided further, that funds shall be expended for the weapons-related injury surveillance system...........$18,320,883

4510-0110
For community health center services; provided, that $225,000 shall be expended for the purpose of a provider loan repayment program at community health centers; provided further, that $40,000 shall be expended for the Boston family health van; provided further, that the Codman square health center shall receive in fiscal year 2001 no less than the amount obligated for said center in fiscal year 2000; provided further, that not less than $5,000,000 shall be expended for the expansion of community health center services for the purpose of funding operating and information systems, public health services in minority communities, access to oral health services and to conduct research regarding populations and health needs served by community health centers; provided further, that of said $5,000,000 not less than $100,000 shall be expended for the O'Neill health clinic; provided further, that $3,101,053 shall be expended for the start-up costs of new oral health clinics; provided further, that priority shall be given to the nine community health centers that the department has identified to be in greatest need of such services; and provided further, that the department shall submit a tentative allocation schedule of said community health center grants to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than December 1, 2000......................................$9,348,035

4510-0150
For the managed care program at community health centers known as CenterCare established pursuant to section 24F of chapter 111 of the General Laws; provided, 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; and provided further, 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 USC 254c(f)(1)............................................$3,806,262

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, so-called; 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 the department may expend not more than $150,000 to conduct a study on brain tumor/cancer, leukemia, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, lung and bronchus, liver and inflammatory bowel disease and Hodgkin disease in the towns of Rockland, Hingham, Weymouth and Abington; provided further, that not more than $50,000 shall be expended for educational outreach programs in Essex county targeting individuals at risk of infection by Lyme disease; 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 agent pilot project in Franklin county; provided further, that not less than $114,000 shall be expended on the implementation of a program to manage the disposal of low-level radioactive waste in accordance with sections 7, 8, 11, 13 and 16 of chapter 111H of the General Laws; provided further, that no funds appropriated herein shall be expended for the purpose of siting or locating a low-level radioactive waste facility in the commonwealth; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for the purposes of research and prevention activities associated with lyme disease, so-called, to be conducted by the Barnstable county department of health and environment; provided further, that up to $100,000 shall be expended for an environmental risk assessment at the Nyanza superfund site; provided further, that $300,000 shall be expended for a contract to provide environmental risk assessment of the prevalence lupus and scleroderma in the South Boston section of the city of Boston, including the costs of performing medical and laboratory tests and examinations; provided further, that $150,000 shall be expended for the purpose of the director of the bureau of environmental health assessment of the department of public health to conduct an environmental risk assessment of the health impacts of the General Lawrence Logan Airport in the East Boston section of the city of Boston on any community that is located within a five mile radius of said airport and is potentially impacted by said airport; provided further, that said assessment may include, but not be limited to, examining incidences of respiratory diseases and cancers and performing medical and laboratory tests and examinations of residents of said communities; provided further, that the bureau shall report its findings together with any recommended response actions by the commonwealth to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than December 1, 2000; provided further, that $140,000 shall be made available for an interdepartmental service agreement between the department of public health and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell to support research activities which investigate the association between ethnic diversity and childhood asthma incidence; and provided further, that the department shall report not later than 30 days after the effective date of this act detailing the purpose, scope and completion date of all environmental health surveys, studies, and risk assessments funded from this item and any other funds available to the department for similar purposes as of said date, or projected to be funded from said item or such other funds in fiscal year 2001.............................$4,123,667

4510-0615
The department may expend an amount not to exceed $150,000 from assessments collected in accordance with 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 revenues not to exceed $1,165,176 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 said revenues may be used for the costs of both programs, including the compensation of employees; 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; and provided further that the department shall report quarterly to the house and senate committees on ways and means the total amount of revenue collected, a ratio of revenue collected per employee, the total number of inspections and a ratio of inspections per employee ......................................................$1,315,176

4510-0616
For a drug registration and monitoring program; provided, that the department may expend an amount not to exceed $557,347 from revenues collected from a fee charged to registered practitioners, including physicians, dentists, veterinarians, podiatrists and optometrists for controlled substance registration; provided further, 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.................................$557,347

4510-0617
For environmental monitoring of the nuclear power plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire including a continuous real-time radiological monitoring system for Massachusetts cities and towns located within the emergency planning zone of said nuclear power plant; provided, that the cost of said item, including any applicable fringe benefits and indirect costs, shall be assessed on electric companies in Massachusetts which own, in whole or in part, or purchase power from the Seabrook nuclear power plant; provided further, that for the purposes of said item, electric companies shall be defined as all persons, firms, associations and private corporations which own or operate works or distribute electricity in the commonwealth; and provided further, that the term electric companies shall not include municipalities or municipal light plants...................................................$91,500

The Governor reduced the following item to the following amount and disapproved the wording as indicated.
4510-0710
For the operation of the division of health care quality; provided, that said division shall be responsible for assuring the quality of patient care provided by the commonwealth's health care facilities and services, and for protecting the health and safety of patients who receive care and services in nursing homes, rest homes, clinical laboratories, clinics, institutions for the mentally retarded and the mentally ill, hospitals and infirmaries, including the inspection of ambulance services; provided further, that not less than $369,065 shall be expended for the hiring of additional investigators and ancillary expenditures associated with said investigators; provided further, that said investigators shall conduct investigations of abuse, neglect, mistreatment and misappropriation pursuant to section 51 and section 72H of chapter 111 of the General Laws; provided further, that said amount shall not be used for any purpose other than for the salaries of such additional investigators; provided further, that said division shall assign such additional investigators to perform their duties on staggered shifts which shall be established by said division to provide adeq