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 collective bargaining agreement between the commonwealth and the Coalition of Public Safety (Unit 5), the sums set forth in section two are hereby appropriated, subject to the provisions of law regulating the disbursement of public funds and the conditions pertaining to appropriations in chapter one hundred and ninety-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and eighty-seven, the sums so appropriated to be in addition to any amounts available for the purpose.

SECTION 2.

`tm;keep=no `tcol=6,B4;c1=1,9,tu,T;c2=1,78,tuc;c3=1,78,tuc;c4=11,53,tfh1;c5=15,49,tu;c6=65,14,tur `tc3 EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE. `tc2 Collective Bargaining. `tch `tc1 `ts Item `t+1 `tch;end `tc1 1108-3200 `tc4 For the purposes of the commonwealth's contributions for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and eighty-seven and nineteen hundred and eighty-eight to health and welfare funds established pursuant to certain collective bargaining agreements; provided, however, that said contributions shall be calculated as provided in the applicable collective bargaining agreement, and shall be paid to such trust funds on a monthly basis, or on such other basis as the applicable collective bargaining agreement provides `tc6 $112,000 `tc1 1108-3638 `tc4 For the purpose of meeting the commonwealth's obligations pursuant to the provisions of Article twenty-one A of the collective bargaining agreement between the commonwealth and the Coalition of Public Safety (Unit 5) `tc6 $10,000 `tc1 1599-3638 `tc4 For a reserve to meet the cost of salary adjustments and other employee economic benefits authorized by the collective bargaining agreement between the commonwealth and the Coalition of Public Safety (Unit 5), and to meet the cost of salary adjustments and other economic benefits necessary to provide equal salary adjustments or benefits to employees employed in "confidential" positions which would otherwise be covered by said collective bargaining agreement; provided, however, that the personnel administrator, with the approval of the secretary of administration and finance, shall determine such salary adjustments and other economic benefits for "confidential" employees in accordance with the provisions of the collective bargaining agreement then in effect which would otherwise cover said positions; provided, further, that said secretary is hereby authorized to transfer from the sum appropriated herein to other items of appropriation and allocations thereof for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighty-eight where the amounts otherwise available are insufficient for the purpose such amounts as are necessary to meet the cost of said adjustments and benefits for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighty-eight and prior fiscal years; provided, further, that said secretary is authorized to allocate the cost of such salary adjustments and benefits to the several state or other funds to which such items of appropriation are charged; provided, further, that copies of said collective bargaining agreement, together with an analysis of all cost items contained in said agreement and all changes to be made in the schedules of permanent and temporary positions required by said agreement, shall be filed with the house and senate committees on ways and means prior to the transfer or allocation of any amounts necessary to meet the cost of said adjustments and benefits; provided, further, that no transfers shall be made as authorized herein without prior approval of the house and senate committees on ways and means; and provided, further, that the secretary of administration and finance should implement said salary adjustments and benefits within sixty days of the effective date of this act `tc6 $10,352,000 `tcol;end `tm;keep=yes

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