Trial Court

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

......................................................$7,378,844

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 of the trial court 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

......................................................$16,290,956

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

......................................................$4,184,133

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

......................................................$389,638

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

......................................................$1,085,148

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

......................................................$580,463

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

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 costs of any kind

......................................................$5,769,130

0330-0301

For the salary and expenses of the executive director and staff of the trial court office of community corrections; provided, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for the implementation of a changing lives through literature program; 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; provided further, that $90,000 shall be expended for a "drug treatment on demand" drug offender program in the district court of Lawrence; provided further, that $150,000 shall be expended on an alternative probation program "honor court," so-called, in the district court of Hampshire at Northampton; provided further, that not more than $50,000 shall be expended for a study to establish for offenders convicted of repeat drunk driving offenses an intermediate sanction secure residential facility that shall provide rehabilitative treatment and an aftercare monitoring program; provided further, that said executive director shall, subject to the approval of the chief justice for administration and management, hire 200 associate probation officers during fiscal year 1998; provided further, that such associate probation officers shall perform in-court functions only and shall assume the in-court duties of 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 0330-0302; provided further, that said executive director shall expend no more than $2,750,000 for the salaries of such associate probation officers in fiscal year 1998; and provided further, that the annualized cost of the salaries of such associate probation officers shall not exceed $4,400,000

......................................................$4,495,219

0330-0302

For the cost of intensive supervision and community corrections programs; provided, that such programs shall include 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 such programs shall not exceed a daily average goal of 5,000 intensively-supervised probationers; provided further, that funds from this item shall be expended to cover the costs of such programs that are undertaken and administered by court probation offices and county sheriffs' offices; provided further, that the executive director of the trial court office of community corrections shall enter into interagency service agreements and memoranda of understanding with such 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 such agreements and memoranda shall be entered into at the direction of said executive director; provided further, that expenditures from this item shall not be made until a spending and management plan for such programs has been submitted by said executive director to both the house and senate committees on ways and means for approval; provided further, that such plan shall be so submitted no later than September 15, 1997; and provided further, that such plan shall include the projected number of probationers to be served by each such program and a description of the oversight and services provided to such probationers

......................................................$3,000,000

0330-0317

For the operation and expenses of the Massachusetts sentencing commission, pursuant to subsection (a) of section one of chapter 432 of the acts of 1993

......................................................$323,130

0330-0400

For the nonemployee 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 nonemployee 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 wherein 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 not less than $100,000 shall be provided for a contract with Massachusetts General Hospital for a research program on abused children; provided further, that $146,688 shall be expended for the purpose of providing a community services for women program in the district court of Southern Essex; and provided further, that not less than $85,000 shall be expended for a partnership between the administrative office of the trial court and the University of Massachusetts for the development and implementation of a plan to increase the number of qualified, certified foreign language interpreters available for court interpretation services

......................................................$16,934,792

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 $35,000 shall be expended for Framingham mediation services; provided further, that the chief justice for administration and management is hereby directed to submit a report on alternative dispute resolution services to the senate and house committees on ways and means not later than February 2, 1998; and provided further, that such report shall include, but not be limited to, cost-benefit analysis of providing such services and the impact of such services on the courts' caseload

......................................................$85,000

0330-0600

For dental and optical health plan trust agreements

......................................................$2,553,308

0330-1000

For trial court jury expenses

......................................................$3,220,757

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

......................................................$1,866,947

0330-2002

For the maintenance, purchase and binding of trial court law library materials

......................................................$2,008,031

0330-2003

Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the chief justice for administration and management is hereby authorized to establish and collect fees for attorneys who use the trial court law libraries; provided, that such fees shall be deposited in this item and shall be structured so as not to exceed, in the aggregate, $500,000; and provided further, that funds from this item may be expended for any costs associated with the law libraries

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

0330-2010

For the costs associated with computerized legal research

......................................................$253,084

0330-2020

For centralized law book purchases

......................................................$476,738

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

......................................................$14,382,074

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

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

......................................................$3,066,893

0330-2202

For the payment of private and municipal court leases; provided, that the administrative office of the trial court shall, in conjunction with the division of capital planning and operations, lease no more than 2,500 square feet of additional office space in the town of Edgartown; and provided further, that such space shall be made available to the probate court of the county of Dukes county

......................................................$9,840,719

0330-2205

For the costs associated with maintaining and operating courthouse facilities owned by the commonwealth; provided, that two additional maintenance personnel positions shall be funded from this item in fiscal year 1998 and that such additional employees shall be assigned to the trial court building in Fall River at the former Durfee High School; and provided further, that four custodians employed by Franklin county in fiscal year 1997 shall be reclassified as state employees for fiscal year 1998 and shall be compensated from this item

......................................................$13,677,060

0330-2300

For the costs of witness fees

......................................................$575,073

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

......................................................$751,875

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

......................................................$1,139,937

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

......................................................$1,672,955

0330-2800

For the cost of equipment maintenance and repairs

......................................................$2,805,628

0330-3000

For equipment purchases and rentals; 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

......................................................$560,000

0330-3200

For the court security program, including personnel and expenses; provided, that $790,000 shall be expended for additional security guards; provided further, that $720,625 shall be expended for 25 additional court officers; provided further, that such security guards and court officers may be available for assignment in accordance with juvenile court expansion funded pursuant to item 0337-0003; and provided further, that all other per diem court officers shall be paid the daily rate in accordance with collective bargaining agreements

......................................................$27,718,857

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

......................................................$720,032

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; provided further, that not less than $90,000 shall be expended for a court interpreter pilot program in the superior court located in the city of Fall River and said court shall provide one court interpreter, one clerical support position and office space, if available, for said program; and provided further, that two additional Portuguese interpreters, who shall serve in the New Bedford district court, shall be funded from this item in fiscal year 1998

......................................................$374,358

0330-4100

For a trial court vacancy pool and reserve; provided, that by March 1, 1998, 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; and provided further, that the annualized cost of positions so filled shall not exceed the amount appropriated herein

......................................................$1,500,000

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

......................................................$5,470,115