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 Service Employees International Union, Local 254, and by the memorandum of understanding between the commonwealth and the National Association of Government Employees, Local R1-219 (Unit 3) for certain class reallocations pursuant to Article 17A of the collective bargaining agreement between the parties, and to provide further for the cost of salary adjustments and other economic benefits authorized by the existing, approved collective bargaining agreement between the commonwealth and the State Police Association of Massachusetts (Unit 5A), 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=12,53,tfh1;c5=15,49,tu;c6=66,13,tur `tc3 JUDICIARY. `tc2 Supreme Judicial Court. `tc1 0320-0003 `tc4 `tc6 $6,674 `tc2 Appeals Court. `tc1 0322-0002 `tc4 `tc6 $3,972 `tc2 Trial Court. `tc2 Collective Bargaining. `tc1 0330-0704 `tc4 For a reserve to meet the cost of certain salary adjustments and other employee economic benefits authorized by the collective bargaining agreement between the chief administrative justice of the trial court and the Service Employees International Union, Local 254; provided, however, that said chief administrative justice 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 where the amounts otherwise available are insufficient for the purpose; provided further, that the secretary of administration and finance is authorized to allocate the cost of such adjustments and benefits to the several state or other funds to which such items of appropriation are charged; provided, further, that copies of said 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; the secretary of administration and finance shall implement said salary adjustment and benefits within sixty days of the effective date of this act `tc6 $2,977,205 `tc3 EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE. `tc2 Collective Bargaining. `tc1 1599-3643 `tc4 For a reserve to meet the cost of salary adjustments and other employee economic benefits authorized by the memorandum of understanding between the commonwealth and the National Association of Government Employees, Local R1-219 (Unit 3) for certain class reallocations; provided, however, 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 memorandum of understanding, 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 `tc6 $83,875 `tcol;end

SECTION 3. Section 2 of chapter 224 of the acts of 1987 is hereby amended by striking out item 1599-3618 and inserting in place thereof the following item:- `tm;keep=no `tcol=6,B4;c1=1,9,tu,T;c2=1,78,tuc;c3=1,78,tuc;c4=12,53,tfh1;c5=15,49,tu;c6=66,13,tur `tc1 1599-3619 `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 State Police Association of Massachusetts (Unit 5A), 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 years nineteen hundred and eighty-seven and nineteen hundred and eighty-eight where the amounts otherwise available are insufficient for the purposes 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 notification to the house and senate committees on ways and means; 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; and, provided further, that this appropriation shall expire June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighty-eight `tc6 $11,638,000 `tcol;end

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage.