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. To provide for certain collective bargaining costs, including the cost of salary adjustments and other employee economic benefits authorized by the collective bargaining agreement between the chief administrative justice of the trial court and the Office and Professional Employees International Union, AFL-CIO, Local 6 (Clerical Unit), the sums set forth in section two of this act are hereby appropriated, subject to the provisions of law regulating the disbursement of public funds and the conditions pertaining to appropriations in chapter two hundred and six of the acts of nineteen hundred and eighty-six.

SECTION 2.

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SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.