General Laws

[ Text of section effective until January 1, 2013. For text effective January 1, 2013, see below.]

  Section 27. Notwithstanding any provision of general law, no department, office, commission and institution shall incur an expense, increase a salary, or employ a new clerk, assistant or other subordinate, unless an appropriation by the general court and an allotment by the governor, sufficient to cover the expense thereof, shall have been made. Appropriations by the general court, and any allotments by the governor, shall be expended only in the amounts prescribed in subsidiary accounts, if any, established for the several appropriation accounts in schedules established by, and on file with, the house and senate committees on ways and means; provided, however, that amounts prescribed in subsidiary accounts for personal services shall be available for the payment of such other forms of compensation as may be due under existing statutes or under the provisions of rules and regulations made in accordance with said statutes. Said house and senate committees on ways and means, as soon as may be after the general appropriation bill or any other appropriation bill has the force of law conformably to the constitution, shall file with the comptroller and with the budget director, a certified copy of the schedules aforesaid which relate thereto.

Chapter 29: Section 27. Expenses and increases regulated

[ Text of section as recodified by 2012, 165, Sec. 112 effective January 1, 2013. See 2012, 165, Sec. 137. For text effective until January 1, 2013, see above.]

  Section 27. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, no department, office, commission and institution shall incur an expense, increase a salary or employ a new clerk, assistant or other subordinate, unless an appropriation by the general court and an allotment by the secretary of administration and finance, sufficient to cover the expense thereof, shall have been made. As soon as possible after the general appropriation bill or any other appropriation bill has the force of law conformably to the constitution, the budget director shall file with the house and senate committees on ways and means and the comptroller a schedule identifying the amount of each subsidiary account, if any, within every appropriation that shall be made available to departments, offices, commission or institutions within the state's central accounting system.