Sections 1, 1A and 1B

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 as state appropriations in sections 2, 2B, and 3 for the several purposes and subject to the conditions specified in said sections 2, 2B 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, 1998. The sums set forth as federal appropriations in section 2 for the several purposes and subject to the conditions specified in said section 2 are hereby appropriated from the general federal grants fund, subject to the provisions of law regulating the disbursement of public funds and the approval thereof. Federal funds received in excess of the amount appropriated in this section shall be expended only in accordance with the provisions of section 6B of chapter 29 of the General Laws. The amounts of any unexpended balances of the federal grant funds received prior to June 30, 1997 and not included as part of an appropriation item in section 2 are hereby made available for expenditure during fiscal year 1998, in addition to any amount appropriated in section 2.

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, 1998 are necessary and sufficient to provide the means to defray the appropriations and expenditures from such funds for such fiscal year as set forth and authorized in sections 2 and 2B. The comptroller is hereby authorized and directed to 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 such fiscal year pursuant to section 13 of chapter 7A of the General Laws; provided, that such 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.

SECTION 1B. The comptroller is hereby authorized and directed to keep a distinct account of actual receipts of nontax 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; provided, that such 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.