Session Laws

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1. Chapter 645 of the acts of 1948 is hereby amended by striking out section 10, as most recently amended by chapter 526 of the acts of 1981, and inserting in place thereof the following section:-

Section 10. Sections one to nine B, inclusive, of this act shall take effect on July first of the current year, and shall cease to be operative on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighty-seven, except that the payments provided by section nine shall be continued thereafter by the state treasurer, subject to appropriation, in accordance with the provisions of said section nine, on certification by the commissioner of education.

SECTION 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of the last paragraph of section nine of chapter six hundred and forty-five of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-eight to the contrary, any district designated by the board of education as a district of extreme critical need for fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighty-six under the provisions of said section nine, that has not had a construction grant approved by the board during fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighty-six under said section nine shall be eligible to receive the additional five per cent as provided in said section nine for a construction grant approved by said board during fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighty-seven.