Reserves

Reserves.

1599-0001

N.B. - The Acting Governor has vetoed this item

For a reserve for the road tax evasion program, so- called

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

1599-0002

For contributions toward the maintenance of the old provincial state house

...............................................................$75,000

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 section 14G of chapter 151A of the General Laws

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

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

1599-0033

For a reserve to promote departmental revenue optimization projects authorized by and subject to the provisions of section 276

...............................................................$3,500,000

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

1599-0035

For certain debt service contract assistance to the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority in accordance with the provisions of section 39I of chapter 190 of the acts of 1982

...............................................................$24,653,087

1599-0036

For the expenses of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority

...............................................................$12,632,616

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

1599-0060

For a reserve for the operation of the division of health care finance and policy and the administration of the uncompensated care pool; provided, that no funds shall be expended from this item for AA subsidiary costs, so-called; provided further, that the office of the comptroller shall establish quarterly benchmarks for the collection of not less than $3,000,000 in fiscal year 1999 from federal financial participation generated by administrative expenditures of the division for the medicaid program pursuant to Title XIX of the Social Security Act; and provided further, that said division may make expenditures from this item, subject to the provisions of item 4100-0060 of section 2, upon certification by said comptroller that said benchmarks have been achieved for two quarters in said fiscal year

...............................................................$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

...............................................................$31,560,000

Local Aid Fund........................................................... 81.85%

Commonwealth Cost Relief Fund............................................... 18.15%

1599-2122

N.B. - The Acting Governor has struck the italicized language in this item

For the office of the jury commissioner; provided, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, no funds shall be expended or transferred from this item until the secretary of administration and finance has certified that the office of the jury commissioner has submitted the report required by section 342 on or before February 28, 1999

...............................................................$725,552

1599-2123

N.B. - The Acting Governor has vetoed this item

For the division of information technology; provided, that said division is hereby authorized and directed to compile an amalgamated master juror list, so-called, using as its source lists from the statewide voter registration, the registry of motor vehicles list of drivers and identification card holders, the list of recipients receiving benefits of the department of transitional assistance, the list of tax filers from the department of revenue, and lists from other agencies and sources as deemed necessary for insuring a diverse jury pool; provided further, that funds expended from this item shall be for the purchase of technology needed to compile said list; provided further, that said list shall be turned over the commissioner of the office of jury commissioner on or before December 1, 1998; and provided, further, that said division shall work in collaboration with the jury commissioner to develop and implement a chargeback system to begin on February 1, 1999 whereby said division shall expand services to include the compilation of the entire juror list from which the jury commissioner shall be able to, upon its receipt, immediately summons jurors for jury duty

...............................................................$200,000

1599-2501

For a reserve for the sex offender registry to fund expanded obligations of said registry which are directly related to legislative or judicial mandates; provided, that the secretary of administration and finance may transfer funds appropriated herein to item 8000-0125; provided further, that not less than 60 days prior to any such transfer, said secretary shall file a spending plan with the house and senate committees on ways and means detailing the nature and reasons for the expenditures of the funds so transferred; provided further, that such expenditures shall be scheduled by subsidiary; and provided further, that such spending plan shall project the total cost of said registry for fiscal year 1999 and fiscal year 2000

...............................................................$4,000,000

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

1599-2503

N.B. - The Acting Governor has reduced the appropriation for this item by $4,000,000 to $14,000,000

For a reserve to meet the costs of scheduled, emergency and deferred maintenance and repairs to capital assets owned by the commonwealth; provided, that the secretary of administration and finance may transfer funds from this item to other items of appropriation and allocations thereof in accordance with a transfer plan which shall be filed in advance with the house and senate committees on ways and means; provided further, that operating funds previously budgeted for the purposes of capital asset maintenance and repairs in other items of appropriation shall continue to be used for such purposes and that the amounts appropriated herein shall not replace or supplant such budgeted amounts; provided further, that not later than September 1, 1998 the division of capital asset management and maintenance shall be responsible for promulgating rules and regulations regarding the distribution of funds to eligible agencies as defined in section 290 of this act; provided further, that not more than $4,000,000 shall be expended from this item for emergency maintenance and repairs, so-called, as defined in said section 290; provided further, that no funds from this item shall be disbursed prior to the submission of the capital assets survey and management plan required pursuant to said section 290; provided further, that not more than $150,000 shall be expended from this item on such survey and management plan; provided further, that said $150,000 shall be in addition to any amounts expended from item 1102-3210 for the purposes of directing, controlling, supervising, planning and overseeing the scheduled maintenance and repair needs of capital assets owned by the commonwealth; provided further, that no funds appropriated herein shall be expended for routine maintenance as defined in said section 290; provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions of section 40B of chapter 7 of the General Laws, the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance may, upon the request of a state agency, delegate project control and supervision to such state agency over projects funded from this item whose estimated cost is less than $500,000 if said commissioner determines that such agency has the ability to control and supervise such project; and provided further, that funds for such scheduled, emergency and deferred maintenance and repairs may be expended, notwithstanding the provisions of sections 39B to 40N, inclusive, of chapter 7 of the General Laws, whenever the total cost of such project is $500,000 or less

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

1599-2504

For a reserve for the expanded operation of the detoxification unit for females held on bail awaiting trial at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham; provided, that the funds appropriated herein shall be in addition to funds appropriated for substance abuse treatment in item 8900-0001; provided further, that said funds shall be expended solely for the purposes of providing substance abuse treatment to females housed in a modular housing unit designated for substance abuse treatment for such females; provided further, that 60 days prior to the expenditure of any funds from this item, the secretaries of administration and finance and public safety shall certify in writing to the house and senate committees on ways and means the date on which such modular unit is scheduled to be fully operational and available for said purpose; and provided further, that said secretaries shall also certify in writing the anticipated fiscal year 1999 operational cost for said additional substance abuse treatment unit at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham, in addition to funds provided for substance abuse treatment in said item 8900-0001

...............................................................$400,000

1599-3234

For the commonwealth's South Essex Sewerage District debt service assessment

...............................................................$213,326

1599-3837

For a reserve for payment to the water pollution abatement trust to fund financial assistance to municipalities and other eligible borrowers to meet debt service obligations incurred by such 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

...............................................................$1,700,000

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

1599-3856

For rent and associated costs at the Massachusetts information technology center in the city of Chelsea

...............................................................$7,115,000

State Building Management Fund............................................... 18.15%

1599-3917

For a reserve for the payment of principal and interest on bonds issued by Essex county, dated February 1, 1996, for repairs and renovations of courthouses subsequently acquired by the commonwealth

...............................................................$130,962

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

1599-6897

N.B. - The Acting Governor has struck the italicized language and reduced the appropriation for this item by $6,500,000 to $21,500,000

For a reserve to adjust the wages, compensation or salary and associated employee-related costs to personnel earning less than $30,000 in annual compensation who are employed by 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; 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 1999 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, that such adjustments shall be not less than 3 per cent for those 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, so-called, as established by the division of health care finance and policy; provided further, that notwithstanding any provision of this item to the contrary, providers of family planning services reimbursed according to such class rate system, shall receive allocations from this item; provided further, that no funds shall be allocated from this item to contracts funded exclusively by federal grants as delineated in section 2D of this act; provided further, that the total fiscal year 1999 cost of the salary adjustments and any other associated employee costs authorized thereunder shall not exceed $28,000,000; and provided further, that the annualized cost of such adjustments in fiscal year 2000 shall not exceed the amount appropriated herein

...............................................................$28,000,000

1599-7001

For a reserve for costs associated with the early intervention program operated by the department of public health pursuant to the provisions of item 4513-1020 of section 2; provided, that said department shall submit the following information to the secretary of administration and finance and to the chairmen of the house and senate committees on ways and means: (a) a delineation of the actual caseload for said early intervention program for each of the months during the period from July 1, 1998 to November 1, 1998, inclusive; (b) an estimate of the projected caseload for said early intervention program during the period from November 1, 1998 to June 30, 1999, inclusive; (c) an estimate of the projected costs to be incurred by said early intervention program during the fiscal year 1999 accounts payable period, so-called; (d) the actual cost per case for said early intervention program for each month during the period from July 1, 1998 to November 1, 1998, inclusive; (e) an estimate of the projected cost per case for said early intervention program for each month during the period from November 1, 1998 to June 30, 1999, inclusive; (f) monthly date-of-service and date-of-payment expenditure data by provider type for items 4513-1010 and 4513-1020 of this act; (g) a revised caseload projection methodology that distinguishes the beneficiaries of said program by diagnostic category and which reflects the retroactive nature of departmental expenditures for benefits provided under said program; (h) the rate of caseload growth for each such category; (i) the health insurance status of such beneficiaries, including MassHealth eligibility status or eligibility for third party health insurance; (j) a description of early intervention programs provided by other states and expenditures of such states on benefits not eligible for Title XIX of the Social Security Act; and (k) an analysis accompanied by recommendations, if any, correcting for the purported shift by third party payers from the provision of early intervention benefits under uncapped benefit plans to the capped benefit plan established pursuant to chapter 175 of the General Laws; provided further, that said department shall submit the information required by clauses (a) to (k), inclusive, not later than March 1, 1998; provided further, that the secretary of administration and finance may transfer funds from this item to said item 4513-1020 subject to a transfer plan which shall be filed in advance with the chairmen of the house and senate committees on ways and means; and provided further, that no funds shall be transferred or allocated from this item to any other item of appropriation until said department submits the information required by said clauses (a) to (k), inclusive, to said secretary of administration and finance and to the chairmen of the house and senate committees on ways and means

...............................................................$6,215,775

General Fund............................................................. 75.18%

Health Protection Fund............................................... 24.82%

1599-7002

For regional economic development projects related to the Mystic Valley Development Commission established by section 11 of chapter 294 of the acts of 1996

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

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

1599-7006

For a reserve to meet the fiscal year 1999 costs of salary and benefit adjustments and other economic benefits authorized for those employees of the trial court who are covered by the collective bargaining agreement between the trial court of the commonwealth and the Office and Professional Employees International Union, Local 6 (AFL-CIO) Clerical Unit; provided, 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 1999 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; provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the comptroller is hereby authorized and directed to charge to the Collective Bargaining Reserve Fund expenditures from the accounts which receive transfers from this item in amounts equal to the amounts of said transfers

...............................................................$8,683,648

Collective Bargaining Reserve Fund........................................................... 100.0%

1599-7007

For a reserve to meet the costs of salary adjustments and other economic benefits necessary to provide equal salary adjustments and other economic benefits to employees of the trial court employed in "confidential" positions who would otherwise be covered by collective bargaining agreements in effect for fiscal year 1999 and for the costs of salary adjustments and other economic benefits necessary to provide equal salary adjustments and economic benefits to employees who are not otherwise classified in any such collective bargaining unit; provided, 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 1999 such amounts as may be necessary to meet the costs of said 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; provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the comptroller is hereby authorized and directed to charge to the Collective Bargaining Reserve Fund expenditures from the accounts which receive transfers from this item in amounts equal to the amounts of said transfers

...............................................................$1,833,135

Collective Bargaining Reserve Fund........................................................... 100.0%

1599-7010

For a reserve for the costs associated with the department of public health hospitals; provided, that the western Massachusetts hospital shall not be subject to the requirements set forth herein; provided further, that said hospitals shall submit the following to the secretary of administration and finance and to the chairmen of the house and senate committees on ways and means: (a) the fiscal year 1999 spending plans of each hospital, (b) notice within five business days when any deficiency is projected and the options being considered to minimize said deficiency, (c) a plan for the implementation of appropriate staffing patterns at each of the hospitals pursuant to section 278 of chapter 43 of the acts of 1997; provided further, that said department shall submit the information required by clauses (a) to (c), inclusive, not later than February 10, 1999; provided further, that the secretary of administration and finance is hereby authorized to transfer funds from this item to items 4590-0908, 4590-0909, 4590-0910, 4590-0911 subject to a transfer plan which shall be filed in advance with the chairmen of the house and senate committees on ways and means; and provided further, that no funds shall be transferred or allocated from this item to any other item of appropriation until said department submits the information required by said clauses (a) to (c), inclusive, to said secretary of administration and finance and to the chairmen of the house and senate committees on ways and means

...............................................................$10,420,054

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.

1599-9150

N.B. - The Acting Governor has reduced the appropriation for this item by $4,000,000 to $12,000,000

For a reserve to implement the MBTA forward funding initiative, so-called; provided, that said reserve shall be available for the initial debt service payment on bonds issued for the purposes of defeasing all outstanding notes of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and of the commonwealth incurred on behalf of said authority, for the amortization of other debt or deficiencies incurred by or on behalf of said authority, and for planning and preliminary implementation costs necessary to establish said authority as a self-financing entity not later than July 1, 1999; provided further, that the treasurer and receiver general of the commonwealth is hereby authorized and directed to defease such notes in fiscal year 1999 pursuant to the terms and conditions established in section 2K of chapter 205 of the acts of 1996 or any subsequent statutory authority established for such purposes; provided further, that the secretary of administration and finance shall prepare an analysis of said authority's finances not later than December 1, 1998 that identifies all assets and liabilities of said authority; provided further, that said analysis shall include an evaluation of all outstanding debt backed by the full faith and credit of the commonwealth that require ongoing appropriations, if any; provided further, that said analysis shall identify any funding needs of said authority that require resolution prior to said July 1 to assure the ability of said authority to operate as a self-financing authority

...............................................................$16,000,000

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/third harbor 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 further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended from this item for a technical advisor to the North End/Waterfront area of the city of Boston; provided further, that not less than $40,000 shall be expended for a technical advisor for the East Boston section of the city of Boston; provided further, that after such a contract for a technical advisor has been awarded, such advisor shall have access to data relative to design and mitigation; and provided further, that such independent technical advisor 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/third harbor tunnel, prior appropriation continued

...............................................................$140,000

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