Office of the Jury Commissioner

0339-2100

N.B. - The Acting Governor has the italicized struck language and reduced the appropriation for this item by $100,000 to $1,451,102

For the office of jury commissioner in accordance with chapter 234A of the General Laws; provided, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended on a contract with the Massachusetts Institute of Social and Economic Research for that entity to conduct a study in multiple phases to assess a pilot project to test the efficacy of the implementation of a new juror summonsing system to be established by the office of the jury commissioner, which shall use as its source an amalgamated list as prescribed in section 342; provided further, that results of said study and the evaluation criteria used shall be submitted to the house and senate committees on ways and means no later than October 1, 1999; and provided further that said report shall include a transition plan for the expansion of said pilot project statewide beginning January 1, 2000

...............................................................$1,551,102