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 unanticipated obligations of the commonwealth, to provide for an alteration of purpose for current appropriations and to meet certain requirements of law, the sum set forth in section 2 shall be appropriated from the General Fund unless specifically designated otherwise and shall be for the several purposes and subject to the conditions specified herein and subject to the provisions of law regulating the disbursement of public funds and the conditions pertaining to appropriations in the general appropriation act or other appropriation acts for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1998. The sum appropriated in said section 2 shall be in addition to any amounts previously appropriated and made available for the purposes of said item.

SECTION 2.

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For a reserve for rent and other expenses related to the relocation of state agencies required in order to renovate the Saltonstall state office building; provided, that upon approval of the secretary of administration and finance, funds appropriated herein may be transferred to other items of appropriation and allocations thereof for said expenses; provided further, that said secretary shall file a quarterly report with the house and senate committees on ways and means detailing said expenses and the status of said agency relocations; and provided further, that said secretary shall file a detailed analysis of the conditions in said building that warrant said renovation and an estimate of the projected renovation costs and the financing costs therefor not later than 30 days after the effective date of this act.

............................................$10,000,000

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