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 supplementing certain items in the general appropriation act and for certain other activities and projects, the sums set forth in sections two and two C for the several purposes and subject to the conditions specified therein are hereby appropriated from the General Fund unless specifically designated otherwise in the items of appropriation, subject to the provisions of law regulating the disbursement of public funds and the conditions pertaining to appropriations in chapter two hundred and forty of the acts of nineteen hundred and eighty-nine, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ninety or for such period as may be specified, the sums so appropriated to be in addition, unless otherwise specified, to any amounts available for the purpose.

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`tc2 Senate. `tch `tc1 `ts Item `t+1 `tch;end `tc1 0112-0100 `tc4 For in-house printing, duplicating and other expenses, prior appropriation continued. `tc6 `tc3 Judiciary. `tc2 Supreme Judicial Court. `tc1 0321-1500 `tc4 For the committee for public counsel services as authorized by chapter two hundred and eleven D of the General Laws, including prior years' expenses, including not more than two hundred and twenty-seven positions `tc6 $11,000,000 `tc2 Trial Court. `tc1 0330-0300 `tc4 For the salaries and expenses of the administrative staff, including not more than one hundred positions `tc6 $2,900,000 `tc3 Executive. `tc2 Governors Council. `tc1 0413-1000 `tc4 For the salaries and personal services of the council, for expenses of the governor and council, and for the expenses and travel of the council from and to their homes `tc6 $28,645 `tc3 Treasurer and Receiver-General. `tc2 Office of the Treasurer. `tc1 0610-6603 `tc4 For the purchase of additional shares of the Massachusetts Community Development Finance Corporation, as authorized by section four A of chapter forty F of the General Laws as amended `tc6 $2,500,000 `tc1 0612-1010 `tc4 For the commonwealth's pension liability fund established under section twenty-two of chapter thirty-two of the General Laws, to meet the commonwealth's obligations under section twenty-two C of said chapter thirty-two, including all retirement benefits payable by the state employees' and state teachers' retirement systems, reimbursement of local retirement systems for cost-of-living adjustments pursuant to section one hundred and two of said chapter thirty-two, and for the costs of increased survivor benefits pursuant to chapter three hundred and eighty-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and eighty-four; provided, however, that subject to rules and regulations promulgated by the treasurer, the state retirement board and each city, town, county or district shall verify the cost thereof and the treasurer shall be authorized to make such payments upon a transfer of funds as hereinafter provided; to reimburse certain cities and towns for pensions to retired teachers; and including any other obligations which the commonwealth has assumed on behalf of any retirement system other than the state employees' or state teachers' retirement systems; and including the commonwealth's share of the amounts to be appropriated pursuant to section twenty-two B of said chapter thirty-two and the amounts to be appropriated pursuant to clause (a) of the last paragraph of section twenty-one of chapter one hundred and thirty-eight of the General Laws; provided further, that all payments for the purposes hereinbefore described shall be made only pursuant to a distribution of monies from the said fund; provided further, that any such distributions and the payments for which such distributions are required shall be detailed in a written report filed not less frequently than on a quarterly basis by the commissioner of administration with the house and senate committees on ways and means and the joint committee on public service in advance of such distribution; provided further that such distributions shall not be made in advance of the date on which any payment is actually to be made; provided further, that the governor shall request a supplemental appropriation in the amount necessary to provide any amount required to be paid hereunder which is in excess of the sum of the amount herein appropriated and the amounts so recovered, and the amount of any such excess shall not be distributed from the commonwealth's pension liability fund nor paid from any other source until such supplemental appropriation shall have been made, and the amounts so appropriated shall be deposited in said fund and distributed therefrom in accordance with the provisions of this item; provided further that the treasurer shall submit a report no later than November fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eighty-nine to the house and senate committees on ways and means detailing all retirement benefits paid to the members of the state employees' and teacher's retirement systems, the reimbursement of local retirement systems for cost-of-living adjustments and for the costs of increased survivor benefits during fiscal nineteen hundred and eighty-nine, provided further, that said report shall also detail the source and amount of revenue appropriated or otherwise made available to the commonwealth's pension liability fund during fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighty-nine; provided further that any request for distribution from said fund shall not be in excess of the amount necessary to provide sufficient monies to make all payments for the purposes hereinbefore described; and, provided further, that no funds may be expended from this item other than by deposit in the commonwealth's pension liability fund `tc6 $4,500,000 `tc5 Local Aid Fund 59.0% General Fund 33.9% Highway Fund 7.0% Inland Fisheries and Game Fund 0.1% `tc1 0612-1920 `tc4 For the payment of funeral expenses of a police cadet pursuant to chapter six hundred and twenty-one of the acts of nineteen hundred and eighty-nine `tc6 $6,831 `tc1 0612-3000 `tc4 For pensions of retired judges or their widows `tc6 $90,000 `tc2 Debt Service. `tc1 0699-9100 `tc4 For the payment of interest on issuance costs of bond and revenue anticipation notes and other notes pursuant to sections forty-seven and forty-nine B of chapter twenty-nine of the General Laws; provided, however, that the treasurer shall certify to the comptroller a schedule of the distribution of such costs among the various funds of the commonwealth; provided further, that the comptroller shall charge such costs to such funds in accordance with said schedule; and, provided further, that any deficit in this item at the close of this fiscal year shall be charged to the various funds or to the General or Highway Fund debt service reserves `tc6 $30,701,421 `tc1 0699-9300 `tc4 For the purpose of rebating to the federal government excess investment earnings on certain notes issued by the commonwealth in December, nineteen hundred and eighty-nine; provided, however, that any expenditure from this appropriation shall be reimbursed from the unexpended balances of the Commonwealth Liability Reduction Fund and the Medicaid Assistance Liability Fund; and, provided further, that any such reimbursement shall not be in violation of any existing bond covenants `tc6 $2,297,519 `tc3 Executive Office for Administration and Finance. `tc2 Office of Quality Assurance. `tc1 1100-1101 `tc4 For the office of quality assurance for mentally retarded class members, which shall be a state office to monitor quality of care provided to retarded citizens who are covered by the consent decrees under Ricci et al v. Callahan et al `tc6 $14,175 `tc2 Bureau of State Buildings. `tc1 1102-3301 `tc4 For the administration of the bureau of state buildings and for the maintenance and operation of buildings under the jurisdiction of the state superintendent of buildings; provided, however, that not less than thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars be available for the restoration and preservation of the historic flags displayed in the State House hall of flags; provided further, that not less than twelve thousand five hundred dollars be available for the State House art commission; provided further, that the state superintendent of buildings shall conduct a study relative to the overnight leasing or renting of state owned and controlled parking spaces in Boston; and, provided further, that the superintendent shall make a report, including his findings and recommendations, to the senate and house committees on ways and means on or before October thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eighty-nine, including not more than one hundred and fifty-two positions `tc6 $115,000 `tc2 Office of Employee Relations. `tc1 1108-3200 `tc4 For the purposes of the commonwealth's contributions for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ninety 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 $4,450,000 `tc2 Group Insurance Commission. `tc1 1108-5200 `tc4 For the commonwealth's share of the group insurance premium and plan costs; provided, however, that not more than four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars shall be obligated for the evaluation and audit of said premium and plan costs; provided further, that not more than one hundred thousand dollars shall be obligated for the evaluation and coordination of the managed care component of said premium; provided further, that not more than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars shall be obligated for the evaluation and negotiation of premium rates; provided further, that not more than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars shall be obligated for claims utilization analysis; provided further, that the budget bureau shall charge the department of employment and training and other departments, authorities, agencies and divisions which have federal or other funds allocated to them for this purpose for that portion of the cost of the program as it determines should be borne by such funds, and shall notify the comptroller of the amounts to be transferred, after similar determination, from the several state or other funds, and amounts received in payment of all such charges of such transfers shall be credited to the General Fund; and the group insurance commission shall obtain reimbursement for premium and administrative expenses from other non-state funded agencies and authorities; provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions of section twenty-six of chapter twenty-nine of the General Laws, the commission is hereby authorized to negotiate, purchase and execute contracts by April first of each year for a policy or policies of group insurance as authorized by chapter thirty-two A of the General Laws; provided further, that the present level of health insurance coverage shall be maintained but shall not constitute payments in full of charges for health care services; provided further, that effective July first, nineteen hundred and eighty-nine, said commonwealth's share of the group insurance as provided in section eight of said chapter thirty-two A shall be ninety percent of the total monthly premiums of rates as established by the commission effective July first, nineteen hundred and eighty-nine; provided further, that no funds appropriated under this item shall be expended for the payment of abortions not necessary to prevent the death of the mother; provided further, that the commission shall notify the house and senate committees on ways and means, by April fifteenth of each year, of the commonwealth's actual cost of its share of group insurance premiums for the next fiscal year; and provided further that, notwithstanding any provisions of chapter six A of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, commencing October first, nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, no health benefit plan offered by the commission shall be liable for any payments on behalf of persons enrolled in said plans to acute hospitals for uncompensated care, as provided in said chapter six A; provided further, that for the purposes of section eighty-seven of said chapter six A and section fifteen of chapter one hundred and eighteen F of the General Laws, "private sector share" shall be defined so as not to include the share of costs incurred by the commission on behalf of persons enrolled in health benefits plans offered by the commission; provided further, that for the purpose of accommodating the delayed receipt of revenues to be retained in item 1108-5300, an amount not to exceed two million dollars may be transferred from item 1108-5200 to item 1108-5300; and, provided further, that said amount shall be returned to item 1108-5200, from retained revenues otherwise authorized to be credited to 1108-5300, no later than June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ninety `tc6 $29,500,000 `tc2 Public Employee Retirement Administration. `tc1 1108-6200 `tc4 For the purposes of workers' compensation paid to public employees `tc6 $15,000,000 `tc5 Highway Fund 35.0% General Fund 65.0% `tc2 Reserves. `tc1 1599-0008 `tc4 For a reserve for tort claims `tc6 $136,800 `tc1 1599-0013 `tc4 For a reserve for the cities and towns' unemployment health insurance contributions and the state's unemployment health contribution due under section fourteen G of chapter one hundred and fifty-one A of the General Laws; provided, however, that the commissioner of the department of employment and training shall provide to the secretary of administration and finance quarterly estimates of said contributions due; provided further, that upon approval of the secretary of administration and finance the treasurer shall transfer funds from this account to the medical security trust fund established in chapter one hundred and eighteen F of the General Laws `tc6 $2,510,000 `tc1 1599-2038 `tc4 For the payment of deficiencies in certain appropriations for previous fiscal years based upon schedules provided to the house and senate committees on ways and means; provided, that the comptroller is hereby authorized to charge such payments to other items of appropriation and allocations thereof and to transfer from the amount appropriated herein to said items and allocations such amounts as are necessary to meet the cost of said charges; provided further, that said comptroller is authorized to allocate the amounts of such payments to the several state or other funds to which said payments would have been chargeable if appropriations had been available thereof; provided, however, that no less than ninety-four thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars of the amount appropriated herein, be used for the purposes of prior year commitments to the New England Board of Higher Education `tc6 $4,869,977 `tc1 1599-3315 `tc4 For the transportation of prisoners to and from the several departments of the trial court by the sheriffs of the various counties, including the cost of personal services and the purchase of vehicles and other equipment for said purposes; provided, however, that the commissioner of administration is hereby authorized to advance to the county treasurer of each county the sums set forth below for each respective county: Barnstable, two hundred seventy-three thousand six hundred and seventy-six dollars; Berkshire, one hundred ninety-four thousand seven hundred and seventy-four dollars; Bristol, two hundred ninety-three thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars; Dukes, sixty-four thousand six hundred and forty-two dollars; Essex, four hundred nineteen thousand seven hundred and forty-three dollars; Franklin, one hundred sixty-seven thousand eight hundred and one dollars; Hampden, three hundred ninety-six thousand five hundred and fifty-one dollars; Hampshire, one hundred seventy-five thousand two hundred and seventy dollars; Middlesex, six hundred twenty-three thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars; Nantucket, twenty thousand dollars; Norfolk, four hundred twelve thousand five hundred and thirty-one dollars; Plymouth, four hundred thirty-two thousand nine hundred and sixty-two dollars; Suffolk, three hundred ninety-nine thousand three hundred and twenty-eight dollars; Worcester, three hundred seventy-four thousand and fifty-four dollars; provided further, that the commissioner of administration, upon agreement of the respective sheriffs, may adjust such amounts in such a fashion as is necessary to meet the actual cost of said transportation; provided further, that each such treasurer shall deposit said amounts into a fund to be expended solely for the purpose of this item; and provided further, that any interest earned by said fund shall be deposited to said fund and made available for expenditure for the purpose of this item in addition to the amounts appropriated herein and that any unexpended balance of such fund as of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ninety, shall be returned to the commonwealth `tc6 $100,000 `tc5 Local Aid Fund 100.0% `tc1 1599-3384 `tc4 For a reserve for the payment of certain court judgments, settlements and legal fees, in accordance with regulations promulgated by the comptroller, filed with the house and senate committees on ways and means, which were ordered to be paid in fiscal year nineteen hundred and ninety or a prior fiscal year and which derive from causes of action initiated in said fiscal year or a prior fiscal year; provided, however, that the comptroller is hereby authorized to charge such payments to this item `tc6 $5,000,000 `tc1 1599-3407 `tc4 For the purpose of municipal reimbursements to be paid according to the provisions of chapter four hundred and seventy of the acts of nineteen hundred and eighty-three; provided, however, that the commissioner of administration shall convene a working committee made up of his own designee, a designee of the secretary of labor, a designee of the commissioner of the department of environmental protection and an appropriate designee of cities and towns, to define fully the role of the municipal coordinator in implementing the provisions of chapter four hundred and seventy of the acts of nineteen hundred and eighty-three, and to establish guidelines for purposes of reimbursing cities and towns for reasonable costs associated with the necessary activities of municipal coordinators; and provided further, that a report of said committee shall be submitted to the house and senate committees on ways and means prior to the expenditure of any funds contained herein for reimbursement of local costs; and, provided further, that of the sum appropriated herein, not less than one hundred thousand dollars shall be available to reimburse cities and towns for the school breakfast act `tc6 $210,000 `tc5 Local Aid Fund 100.0% `tc1 1599-3507 `tc4 For the reimbursement of insurance costs `tc6 $30,221 `tc1 1599-3694 `tc4 For the reimbursement to a certain city in accordance with the provisions of chapter two hundred and twenty-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and eighty-nine `tc6 $500,000 `tc2 Massachusetts Commission for the Blind. `tc1 4110-1010 `tc4 For aiding the adult blind `tc6 $379,895 `tc1 4110-1024 `tc4 For the payment of prior year medical assistance claims `tc6 $6,000,000 `tc2 Department of Youth Services. `tc1 4202-0021 `tc4 For the purchase of service for certain residential care programs, including certain secure programs, and for certain non-residential programs, in accordance with the provisions of chapter twenty-eight A of the General Laws `tc6 $68,000 `tc2 Department of Correction. `tc1 4349-0001 `tc4 For the administration and operation of the commonwealth's correctional facilities, including not more than four thousand seven hundred positions `tc6 $500,000 `tc2 Department of Public Welfare. `tc1 4400-4000 `tc4 For a program to provide certain primary and supplemental medical care and assistance for disabled adults and children as provided in sections six A and six B of chapter one hundred and eighteen E of the General Laws in addition to certain administrative costs; provided, however, that the department may allocate funds to other agencies for the purposes of this program `tc6 $557,200 `tc1 4402-5500 `tc4 For a medical assistance program for the disabled; provided, however, that no expenditures or commitment made pursuant to these items or to any agreements authorized by chapter eight hundred of the acts of nineteen hundred and sixty-nine, as amended, for the purpose of complying with the provisions of Public Law 89-97, Title XIX, shall be incurred in excess of available funds which have been appropriated therefor; provided further, that all judgments, appeals, rate changes and settlements authorized by chapter three hundred and seventy-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and eighty-two, as amended, for services provided in prior fiscal years, but finally determined during the current fiscal year may be paid from this item; provided further, that an amount not to exceed three hundred million dollars may be expended from these items for expenses incurred in a prior fiscal year; provided further, that the department of public welfare is authorized to provide certain primary and supplementary medical care and assistance for those families and individuals who, due to increased income from employment, lose eligibility for the program of medical care and assistance administered by the department in accordance with Title XIX of the Social Security Act, as provided in section one B of chapter one hundred and eighteen E of the General Laws as amended by chapter twenty-three of the acts of nineteen hundred and eighty-eight; and provided further, that no funds appropriated herein shall be expended for the payment of abortions not necessary to prevent the death of the mother; provided further, that funds may be expended from this account for administrative costs associated with cost containment efforts, including not less than one hundred thirty-three thousand three hundred and thirty-four dollars shall be available to the Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation to provide representation through a disability representation project and a medicare advocacy project, provided further that any such expenditures are approved by the commissioner of administration; provided further that at least one million five hundred thousand dollars shall be expended for a program of managed care and alternatives to inpatient care for recipients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome; provided further that the Rate Setting Commission shall establish appropriate rates for community health center and home health care services provided to recipients with AIDS; and, provided further, that the department is authorized to transfer funds between items 4402-5400, 4402-5500, and 4402-5600 for the purposes of the Medicaid program `tc6 $251,600,000 `tc1 4403-2000 `tc4 For a program of aid to families with dependent children; provided, however, that to recognize the special needs of recipients who must obtain private housing in the tight Massachusetts housing market, a forty dollar per month rent allowance shall be paid to all households not residing in public housing or subsidized housing, subject to federal reimbursement; provided further, that a nonrecurring clothing allowance in the amount of one hundred and fifty dollars be provided to each child eligible under this program on September first, nineteen hundred and eighty-nine; provided further, that such allowance is federally reimbursable; provided further, that such clothing allowance shall not be counted as income for determination of eligibility or amount of benefits under the food stamp program; provided further, that such clothing allowance shall be included in the standard of need for the month of September, nineteen hundred and eighty-nine; provided further, that a program of assistance including medical assistance be provided to families otherwise eligible for aid to families with dependent children but for the temporary removal of the dependent child or children from the home by the department of social services in accordance with department procedures; provided further, that benefits under this program shall not be available to those families where a child has been removed from the household pursuant to a court order after a care and protection hearing on child abuse; provided further, that child support payments collected pursuant to Title IV-D of the Social Security Act, not to exceed an amount of ninety million dollars, shall be credited to this account and may be expended without further appropriation for the purposes of this program; provided further, that certain families which will suffer a reduction in benefits due to their loss of earned income and participation in retrospective budgeting may receive a supplemental benefit to compensate them for this loss; and provided further, that no funds from this item shall be expended by the department for the transportation services for the employment and training program or voucher day care program `tc6 $32,578,000 `tc1 4403-2100 `tc4 For a program of emergency assistance for recipients of aid to families with dependent children; provided, however, that the department shall prepare and promulgate rules and regulations to prevent abuse in the emergency assistance program; provided further, said rules and regulations shall include but not be limited to a year-to-year cross check of recipients to determine if a person has received similar benefits in the previous year or years; and provided further, that funds from this item expended for emergency shelter costs shall be subject to federal reimbursement `tc6 $18,189,000 `tc1 4405-2000 `tc4 For the state supplement to the supplemental security income program for the aged and disabled, including a program for emergency needs for supplemental security income recipients; provided, however, that the expenses of special grants recipients residing in rest homes, as provided in section seven A of chapter one hundred and eighteen A of the General Laws, may be paid from this item; and provided further, that the expenses of a program to aid applicants in becoming eligible for said supplemental security income program may be paid from this item `tc6 $5,200,000 `tc1 4406-2000 `tc4 For a program of general relief, including a program of emergency assistance; provided, however, that a nonrecurring clothing allowance in the amount of one hundred and fifteen dollars be provided to each recipient of the program eligible on September first, nineteen hundred and eighty-nine; provided further, that no changes in the eligibility criteria for benefits under this program shall be implemented without the prior written approval of the house and senate committees on ways and means; provided further, that to recognize the special needs of recipients who must obtain private housing in the tight Massachusetts housing market, a forty dollar per month rent allowance shall be paid to all households not residing in public housing or subsidized housing; and, provided further, that no funds from this account shall be expended for homeless shelters without the prior approval of the house and senate committees on ways and means `tc6 $6,731,000 `tc1 4406-3000 `tc4 For a program of assistance to homeless families and individuals, and families and individuals in danger of becoming homeless, including assistance to organizations which provide food, shelter, housing search, and limited related services to the homeless and indigent; provided, however, that not less than eight million dollars shall be obligated for a contract with the Pine Street Inn located in the city of Boston; provided further, that not less than seven hundred sixty thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars be obligated for a comprehensive multi-service day program for the homeless; and, provided further, that the department, may allocate funds to other agencies for the purposes of this program; and that two hundred thousand dollars be used to establish a permanent homeless shelter for Franklin County; and that two hundred thousand dollars be obligated to establish a homeless shelter for the Fitchburg/Leominster/Gardner area `tc6 $1,100,000 `tc2 Department of Public Health. `tc1 4513-1005 `tc4 For the program of medical care and assistance administered by the department pursuant to section twenty-four D of chapter one hundred and eleven, for pregnant women and infants residing in the commonwealth; provided further, that pursuant to an inter-agency agreement established with the department of public welfare, the department of public health shall determine the eligibility for low income pregnant women for Title XIX and women eligible for services under section one A of chapter one hundred and eighteen E of the General Laws; provided further, that funds appropriated in this item shall constitute the sole obligation of the commonwealth to meet the costs of said services and that the entitlement provisions of the medical assistance program shall not apply to the program authorized by this section; and provided further, that the department shall submit a report, on a quarterly basis, to the house and senate committees on ways and means which shall include, but not be limited to, the number of women served during that quarter, categories of age, types of services provided, and expenditures made, including not more than twenty-four positions `tc6 $536,000 `tc1 4540-0001 `tc4 For the maintenance of and for certain improvements at the department of public health hospitals; provided, however, that not less than twenty-five million dollars shall be available for Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, including not more than three thousand four hundred and sixty-five positions `tc6 $5,189,000 `tc2 Department of Social Services. `tc1 4800-0020 `tc4 For the delivery of permanency services to children in the care of the department, including the provision of adoption and guardianship subsidies; provided that the department shall make assessment of all the children in its care longer than twelve months for the appropriateness of adoption; provided further, that the department shall maintain a central registry and tracking system to monitor the progress of such children in the adoption process; and provided further, that no funds shall be expended to provide subsidies to adoptive parents for children no longer in their care; including not more than twenty-nine positions `tc6 $1,162,000 `tc1 4800-0030 `tc4 For the delivery of foster care services to children in the care of the department, including not more than two thousand four hundred and fifty children in care more than twenty-four months, including the provision of foster care subsidies, service of foster families, and reimbursements to foster parents for extraordinary expenses incurred; provided, however, that unless otherwise authorized to be expended, any federal reimbursements received for this purpose shall be credited to the General Fund `tc6 $8,639,000 `tc1 4800-0040 `tc4 For the delivery of group care services to children in the care of the department; provided, however, that unless otherwise authorized to be expended, any federal reimbursements received for this purpose shall be credited to the General Fund `tc6 $744,000 `tc1 4800-0250 `tc4 For regional direct services; provided, however, that unless otherwise authorized to be expended, any federal reimbursements received for this purpose shall be credited to the General Fund; provided further, that within thirty days of the effective date of this act the department shall report to the house and senate committees on ways and means the level of contracted social services and full time equivalents which can be supported with funds from this line item without incurring a deficiency; provided further, that two hundred and fifty thousand dollars shall be obligated for expansion of transitional living services to battered women; provided further, that no less than one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars shall be obligated for a shelter for battered women and children in the Framingham area; provided further, that not less than two million six hundred eighty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty-nine dollars shall be expended for the provision of comprehensive family planning services; and, provided further, that not less than three million nine hundred and seventy thousand six hundred and thirty-seven dollars shall be expended for school and community based services for young parents, including not more than one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three positions `tc6 $4,608,000 `tc2 Department of Mental Retardation. `tc1 5983-0100 `tc4 For the operation of facilities for the mentally retarded, including not more than ten thousand four hundred and fifty positions `tc6 $6,900,000 `tc3 Executive Office of Transportation and Construction. `tc2 Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. `tc1 6005-0011 `tc4 For additional assistance to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in accordance with the provisions of sections six and nine of chapter eight hundred and twenty-five of the acts of nineteen hundred and seventy-four, as amended by section four of chapter two hundred and ninety-one of the acts of nineteen hundred and seventy-five `tc6 $16,117,296 `tc5 General Fund 80.0% Highway Fund 20.0% `tc1 6005-0018 `tc4 For additional contract assistance to be allocated by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority for the net additional expense of commuter rail service provided to and on behalf of the regional transit authorities and cities and towns outside the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority for fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighty-nine, including funds for the net additional expense of bus service provided to and on behalf of the regional transit authorities and cities and towns outside the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority for fiscal year nineteen hundred and ninety, in the amounts determined to be appropriate by the executive office for administration and finance, acting on behalf of the commonwealth, on the recommendation of the secretary of the executive office of transportation and construction, provided, however, that said additional expense of bus service shall be not less than two million dollars, in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-eight A of chapter one hundred and sixty-one A of the General Laws and section forty-five of chapter eight hundred and eleven of the acts of nineteen hundred and eighty-five `tc6 $1,166,546 `tc5 General Fund 80.0% Highway Fund 20.0% `tc3 Board of Education. `tc1 7061-0003 `tc4 For the reimbursement of regional school districts of the amount of school aid due under the provisions of section sixteen D of chapter seventy-one of the General Laws; provided, however, that notwithstanding any provisions of chapter seventy-one or any other general or special law to the contrary, the commonwealth's obligation shall not exceed the amount appropriated herein; and provided further, that the amount paid to regional school districts from this item in fiscal year nineteen hundred and ninety shall be equivalent to the amounts listed in section three of chapter two hundred and forty of the acts of nineteen hundred and eighty-nine `tc6 $32,624 `tc5 Local Aid Fund 100.0% `tc1 7061-0012 `tc4 For non-educational costs of residential school programs for students placed by a local school district or ordered by the bureau of special education on appeals, as provided under chapter seventy-one B of the General Laws; provided, however, that subject to rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner of education, each city and town shall verify to the commonwealth the cost thereof and upon approval of the commissioner the treasurer shall be authorized to make such payments directly to the service provider for services provided on or after July first, nineteen hundred and eighty-nine; provided, further, that funding appropriated herein may reimburse private schools for prior fiscal years' tuitions; and, provided further, that the commonwealth shall not pay more than sixty percent of the cost of any such residential placement `tc6 $4,000,000 `tc5 Local Aid Fund 100.0% `tc3 Board of Regents. `tc1 7077-0020 `tc4 For the expenses of the New England Board of Higher Education and for the expenses of the members of said board `tc6 $109,000 `tc3 Executive Office of Public Safety. `tc2 Department of Public Safety. `tc1 8312-0415 `tc4 For the payment of a certain court judgment entered in Suffolk superior court, civil action number 50090 `tc6 $1,069,498 `tc2 Division of Inspection and Regulation. `tc1 8315-1000 `tc4 For the administration of the division; provided, however, that the expenses of the state boxing commission be paid from this item; provided further, that not less than thirty thousand dollars be available for an eye examination program for all boxers participating in events regulated by the state boxing commission; provided, further, that the commission shall charge professional boxers for the cost of said eye exams; provided further, that a doctor's certificate from another state will be accepted as evidence of such an examination; and, provided further, that eighty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty-five dollars shall be available for the expenses of the board of pipefitters and refrigeration technicians, including not more than ninety positions `tc6 $118,000 `tc1 8700-0001 `tc4 For the administration of the military division, including the offices of the adjutant general and state quartermaster, the operation of the armories, the Camp Curtis Guild rifle range and certain national guard aviation facilities, including not more than one hundred and thirty positions `tc6 $200,000 `tc3 Executive Office of Labor. `tc2 Board of Conciliation and Arbitration. `tc1 9420-0100 `tc4 For the expenses of the board of conciliation and arbitration, including not more than nineteen positions `tc6 $360,000 `tc2 Labor Relations Commission. `tc1 9430-0100 `tc4 For the administration of the commission, including not more than twenty-eight positions `tc6 $115,000 `tcol;end

SECTION 2C. `tm;keep=no `tcol=6,B4;c1=1,9,tu,T;c2=1,78,tuc;c3=1,78,tuc;c4=12,53,tfh1;c5=16,49,tu;c6=66,13,tur `t+1

`tc3 Executive Office for Administration and Finance. `tc2 Office of the Comptroller. `tch `tc1 `ts Item `t+1 `tch;end `tc1 1103-1101 `tc4 The state comptroller may expend revenues in an amount not to exceed one million two hundred fifty thousand dollars from federal reimbursements received on account of a project to maximize revenues collected by the department of social services pursuant to Title IV-E of the Social Security Act, by the department of revenue pursuant to Title IV-D of said Act, by the department of public welfare, pursuant to Titles IV-A, XIX and IV-F of said Act, and to the food stamp program operated by the department, by the executive office of elder affairs pursuant to section XIX of said Act, or by these departments or other state departments pursuant to reimbursement provisions of the federal government, for the costs of a contract to perform said revenue maximization project; provided, however, that expenditures of revenues authorized by this item to be retained by the comptroller shall be made from, and only upon receipt of, federal reimbursement for such costs; and, provided further that the comptroller shall report quarterly, to the house and senate committees on ways and means on the findings of said project, provided further that this item shall expire on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ninety-one `tc6 $1,250,000 `tc2 Group Insurance Commission. `tc1 1108-5202 `tc4 The group insurance commission shall retain revenues from the percentage of applicable premium allowed by the federal consolidated omnibus budget reconciliation act, as amended, in a total amount not to exceed twenty-four thousand dollars; provided, however, that said amount be expended pursuant to the provisions of item 1108-5100 of section two of chapter two hundred and forty of the acts of nineteen hundred and eighty-nine `tc6 $24,000 `tc2 Reserves. `tc1 1599-3100 `tc4 Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the commissioner of administration is hereby authorized to charge against individual appropriation accounts amounts for deposit into this item of appropriation, which amounts shall be expended by the commissioner of administration for the payment of contributions to the unemployment compensation fund and the medical security trust fund to support the cost of certain employment security benefits; provided, however, that the amount which is so charged, in the aggregate, shall equal the contributions required by the provisions of chapter one hundred and fifty-one A of the General Laws, during the period beginning July first, nineteen hundred and eighty-nine and ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ninety; and, provided further, that said amount which is so charged to each appropriation account shall be based upon the actual unemployment benefits which were paid to former employees funded through said appropriation accounts during the eighteen month period prior to July first, nineteen hundred and eighty-nine `tc6 $7,000,000 `tc2 Department of Social Services. `tc2 Title IV-E Reimbursement. `tc1 4800-0210 `tc4 The commissioner of the department of social services may expend revenues collected pursuant to Title IV-E of the Social Security Act, in an amount not to exceed twenty-two million four hundred fifty thousand dollars, for the provision of substitute care `tc6 $22,450,000 `tc3 Board of Regents. `tc2 Data Processing System and Enrollment System. `tc1 7066-0003 `tc4 The data processing system and enrollment auditing system operated by the board of regents is hereby authorized to expend up to three hundred and fifty thousand dollars in fees and charges collected for data processing services rendered to agencies, institutions, and other educational organizations of the commonwealth, for the purpose of defraying the cost of operations of the data processing network, pursuant to item 7066-0003 of section two of chapter two hundred and forty of the acts of nineteen hundred and eighty-nine `tc6 $350,000 `tcol;end

SECTION 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the comptroller is hereby authorized to transfer from the following items such amounts as would otherwise be unexpended on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ninety to those of the following items which would otherwise have insufficient amounts to meet debt service payments for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ninety; provided, however, that each amount so transferred shall be charged to such funds as specified in the item to which said amount is transferred: 0699-1800, 0699-1801, 0699-1900, 0699-2800, 0699-2900, 0699-3800, 0699-3801, 0699-3900, 0699-4800, 0699-4801, 0699-4900, 0699-5800, 0699-5801, 0699-5900, 0699-6800, 0699-6801, 0699-6900, 0699-7800, 0699-7801, 0699-7900, 0699-8300, 0699-8301, 0699-8302, 0699-8400, 0699-8401, 0699-8402, 0699-9100, 0699-9200.

SECTION 4. Section 8 of chapter 23D of the General Laws, as appearing in the 1988 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out the first sentence and inserting in place thereof the following sentence:- There shall be in the executive office of labor, but not subject to its jurisdiction, an economic stabilization trust administered by the secretary of labor and the secretary of economic affairs.

SECTION 5. Section 46 of chapter 151A of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by inserting after the word "welfare,", in line 17, the following words:- medical security,.

SECTION 6. Section 71D of said chapter 151A, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out the third sentence and inserting in place thereof the following sentence:- Said reemployment assistance program shall be administered by the secretary of labor and the secretary of economic affairs through the industrial services program.

SECTION 7. The auditor of the commonwealth shall have prepared an independent analysis and evaluation of the existing employment and training, hereinafter called "ET - Choices", program. Said evaluation shall include, but not be limited to, an analysis of any existing disincentives to economic independence and gaps in said ET - Choices program. More specifically, the evaluation shall include a description of the program participants; the nature and types of employment positions offered or filled; and an analysis of the success and failure rates of the existing program. The evaluation shall entail an examination of the supportive services offered to participants of the program such as day care and medical expenses, and the effect of the availability of such services on the success or failure of the participants in the program. Such study shall also include an analysis of the costs to the commonwealth of the program. Such study shall be completed by September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ninety and shall be submitted to the secretary of the executive office of human services and to the joint committee on human services and elderly affairs.

SECTION 8. The secretary of the executive office of human services, in consultation with the secretary of the executive office of labor, shall create a plan and feasibility analysis for a mandatory work program for recipients of public assistance funds. Said plan shall incorporate the findings of the evaluation conducted by the department of public welfare on the existing employment and training program set forth in section seven. Said plan shall include the eligibility requirements and exemptions therefrom of all proposed program participants. Said plan shall also include, but not be limited to, job training and readiness programs; educational programs such as remedial education, English as a second language and vocational education; supportive services programs for participants, such as medical care, day care, and transportation assistance; job search programs; and transitional programs. For each such program and combination thereof, the plan shall set forth the estimated annual cost to the commonwealth for fiscal years beginning July first, nineteen hundred and ninety and July first, nineteen hundred and ninety-one. The plan shall set forth the nature and types of employment proposed to be filled by program participants. The plan shall identify whether and to what extent private sector positions will be utilized, how such positions shall be identified and secured, and the incentives to private sector employers that shall be utilized. The secretary shall also identify the nature and extent to which public sector positions will be filled by program participants and shall set forth the method by which such positions shall be filled. The secretary shall identify federal waivers, if any, required to fulfill the plan, including the waiver for payment incentives that are coupled with part-time employment opportunities, and shall set forth the timetable necessary to obtain such waivers. The plan shall be submitted to the joint committee on human services and elderly affairs no later than December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and ninety.

SECTION 9. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

SECTION 10. Pursuant to the provisions of section forty-two of chapter two hundred and forty of the acts of nineteen hundred and eighty-nine and notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the secretary of administration and finance is hereby authorized and directed to establish the following fees for service; provided, however, that said fees for service shall take effect upon the effective date of this section. `tuc Board of Allied Mental Health Professionals

`tcol(*)=2;c1=20,20,tf;c2=53,7,tur Application*$ 90.00 Temporary Permit*$ 60.00 Initial License*$120.00 Renewal*$120.00 `tcol;end