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 the cost of salary adjustments and other employee economic benefits authorized by the memorandum of agreement dated February twelfth, nineteen hundred and eighty-seven, between the commonwealth and the Massachusetts Nurses Association (Unit 7), the sum set forth in section two is 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.