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 board of regents of higher education and the Massachusetts Teachers Association/Massachusetts Community College Council, and by the supplemental agreement between the commonwealth and the National Association of Government Employees, Local R1-207 (Unit 6) for a certain class reallocation pursuant to Article 17A of the collective bargaining agreement between the parties, 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 one hundred and ninety-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and eighty-seven.

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`tc3 EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE. `tc2 Collective Bargaining. `tch `tc1 `ts Item `t+1 `tch;end `tc1 1599-3641 `tc4 For a reserve to meet the cost of salary adjustments and other employee economic benefits authorized by the collective bargaining agreement between the board of regents of higher education and the Massachusetts Teachers Association/Massachusetts Community College Council, provided that the secretary of administration and finance 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 such amounts as are necessary to meet the cost of said adjustments and benefits for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and eighty-seven and nineteen hundred and eighty-eight where the amounts otherwise available are insufficient for the purpose; 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; and provided further, that no transfers shall be made as authorized herein without prior notification of the house and senate committees on ways and means; provided that the secretary of administration and finance should implement salary adjustment and benefits within sixty days of the effective date of this act `tc6 $12,938,460 `tc1 1599-3642 `tc4 For a reserve to meet the cost of salary adjustments and other employee economic benefits authorized by the supplemental agreement between the commonwealth and the National Association of Government Employees, Local R1-207 (Unit 6) for a certain class reallocation, provided that the secretary of administration and finance 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 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 where the amounts otherwise available are insufficient for the purpose; 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 supplemental 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; and provided further, that no transfers shall be made as authorized herein without prior notification of the house and senate committees on ways and means; provided that the secretary of administration and finance should implement salary adjustment and benefits within sixty days of the effective date of this act `tc6 $399,000 `tcol;end

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