HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1488        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3617

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to a public website displaying a searchable database of state expenditures..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

Section 6D of chapter 29 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting in line 31 after “Fund” the following:-

; provided, specific details of the commonwealth’s operating expenditures shall be made available to the general public in a conspicuous manner on the commonwealth’s official website.  Specific details shall include, but not be limited to, program spending, employee compensation and expenses, pension and insurance-related expenditures, administrative expenses, and equipment purchases