AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2001 TO PROVIDE FOR SUPPLEMENTING CERTAIN EXISTING APPROPRIATIONS AND FOR CERTAIN OTHER ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS.


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:


SECTION 1. To provide for supplementing certain items in the general appropriation act and other appropriation acts for fiscal year 2001, the sums set forth in section 2 are hereby appropriated from the General Fund unless specifically designated otherwise in this act or in said appropriation acts, for the several purposes and subject to the conditions specified in this act or in said appropriation acts and subject to the provisions of law regulating the disbursement of public funds for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001; provided, however, that said sums shall be in addition to any amounts previously appropriated and made available for the purposes of said items.

SECTION 2. `tm;keep=no `tcol=6,B4;c1=1,9,tu,T;c2=1,78,tuc;c3=1,78,tuc;c4=12,52,tfh1;c5=16,49,tu;c6=65,13,tur `tc3 JUDICIARY. `tc2 Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee. `tc1 0321-2000 `tc4 ï `tc6 $20,800 `tc3 EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE. `tc2 Department of Revenue. `tc1 1233-2000 `tc4 ï `tc6 $300,000 `tc3 EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS. `tc2 Metropolitan District Commission. `tc1 2440-2000 `tc4 ï `tc6 $1,288,269 `tc3 EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES. `tc2 Soldiers' Home in Holyoke. `tc1 4190-0100 `tc4 ï `tc6 $280,000 `tc2 Department of Youth Services. `tc1 4200-0200 `tc4 ï `tc6 $192,014 `tc1 4200-0300 `tc4 ï `tc6 $835,211 `tc2 Department of Transitional Assistance. `tc1 4403-2000 `tc4 ï `tc6 $1,466,977 `tc1 4408-1000 `tc4 ï `tc6 $1,565,625 `tc2 Department of Public Health. `tc1 4513-1005 `tc4 ï `tc6 $614,438 `tc1 4513-1020 `tc4 ï `tc6 $1,426,464 `tc2 Department of Social Services. `tc1 4800-0031 `tc4 ï `tc6 $1,495,777 `tc2 Department of Mental Health. `tc1 5011-0100 `tc4 ï `tc6 $916,123 `tcol;end

SECTION 2A. To provide for certain unanticipated obligations of the commonwealth, to provide for an alteration of purpose for current appropriations and to meet certain requirements of law, the sums set forth in this section are hereby appropriated from the General Fund unless specifically designated otherwise in this section, for the several purposes and subject to the conditions specified in this section, and subject to the provisions of law regulating the disbursement of public funds for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001; provided, however, that said sums shall be in addition to any amounts previously appropriated and made available for the purposes of said items. `tm;keep=yes

+B@B `tm;keep=no `tcol=6,B4;c1=1,9,tu,T;c2=1,78,tuc;c3=1,78,tuc;c4=12,53,tfh1;c5=16,49,tu;c6=66,13,tur `tc3 EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE. `tc2 Office of the Secretary of Administration and Finance. `tc1 1599-2093 `tc4 For a reserve for electricity and heating and motor fuel costs for state agencies; provided, that the secretary of administration and finance may transfer from the sum appropriated in this item to other items of appropriation and allocations thereof for fiscal year 2001 such amounts as are necessary to meet the costs where the amounts otherwise available are insufficient for the purpose; and provided further, that said secretary shall file with the house and senate committees on ways and means 10 days in advance of any transfer authorized in this item a report detailing the amounts transferred to other items of appropriations, the measures that state agencies receiving funding from this reserve have taken to control electricity, heating and motor fuel costs for fiscal year 2001 and the measures said state agencies will implement for fiscal year 2002 to control electricity, heating and motor fuel costs `tc6 $8,000,000 `tcol;end `tm;keep=yes

SECTION 3. Section 2 of chapter 159 of the acts of 2000 is hereby amended by striking out the item number "4000-1000" and inserting in place thereof the following number:- 4000-1006.

SECTION 4. Item 4000-0300 in said section 2 of said chapter 159 is hereby amended by inserting after the words "shall be deemed current fiscal year expenditure refunds, so-called" the following words:- ; provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary and for the purpose of accommodating timing discrepancies between the receipt of recoveries and related expenditures, the division may incur expenses and the comptroller may certify for payment amounts up to the projected total recoveries to be received by June 30, 2001.

SECTION 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved June 8, 2001.