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. Item 4403-2110 of section 2 of chapter 60 of the acts of 1994 is hereby amended by adding the following words:- ; provided further, that the department is hereby authorized to transfer an amount not to exceed three hundred nineteen thousand four hundred and sixty dollars from this item to item 4403-2120 for the purpose of transitional housing; provided further, that the department is hereby authorized to transfer an amount not to exceed six hundred thousand dollars from this item to item 4403-2120 for the purpose of the homelessness intercept program, so-called; and, provided further, that the department is hereby authorized to transfer from this item to item 4403-2130 the amount necessary for payments to hotels and motels to carry out the purposes of said item.

SECTION 2. Item 4403-2120 of said section 2 of said chapter 60 is hereby amended by inserting after the word "than" in line 27, the following words:- the sum of any amounts transferred for said program to this item from items 4403-2110, 4400-1000, 4000-0100, 3000-0100, 1100-1100 and.

SECTION 3. Said item 4403-2120 of said section 2 of said chapter 60 is hereby further amended by striking out in lines 31 to 33, inclusive, the words "one hundred five thousand dollars shall be expended on the transitional housing program ending on August fourteenth, nineteen hundred ninety-four" and inserting in place thereof the following words:- the sum of any amount transferred for this purpose from item 4403-2110 and two hundred forty-nine thousand thirty-five dollars shall be expended on the transitional housing program ending on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ninety-five.

SECTION 4. The comptroller is hereby authorized, if directed by the commissioner of administration and finance with the approval of the governor, to transfer not more than a total of two hundred thousand dollars from items 4400-1000, 4000-0100, 3000-0100, 1100-1100 of section two of chapter sixty of the acts of nineteen hundred and ninety-four, to item 4403-2120 of said section two. The funds so transferred shall be for the purposes of the homelessness intercept program, so-called, and shall be subject to the conditions established in item 4403-2120 of said section two, as amended by this act.

SECTION 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage. `tuc ENDORSEMENTS FOLLOW ON PAGE 3 `t+99