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. The chief administrative justice of the trial court is hereby authorized to transfer amounts, as needed, among the following line items: items 0330-0100 through 0339-2200, excluding items 0330-2030, 0330-2040, 0330-2200, and 0330-2410 in section two of chapter one hundred and fifty of the acts of nineteen hundred and ninety, as reduced by section one A of said chapter; provided, that said chief administrative justice shall submit a transfer of funds proposal to the house committee on ways and means for approval. Said house committee on ways and means shall approve or reject said proposal within three days of submission. The transfer of funds proposal when approved by the house committee on ways and means shall be placed on file with the office of the clerk of the house of representatives.

SECTION 2. The chief justice of the appeals court, or his designee, is hereby authorized to transfer amounts, as needed, between item 0322-0001 and item 0322-0002 in section two of chapter one hundred and fifty of the acts of nineteen hundred and ninety, as reduced by section one A of said chapter; provided, that within fourteen days after the transfer of any amount as authorized herein, said chief justice shall notify the house and senate committees on ways and means of any such transfer.

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