HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 94100        FILED ON: 7/22/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 4100

 

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2010 for the maintenance of the departments, boards, commissions, institutions and certain activities of the Commonwealth, for interest, sinking fund and serial bond requirements and for certain permanent improvements ..

 

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 the maintenance of the several departments, boards, commissions and institutions and other services, and for certain permanent improvements and to meet certain requirements of law, the sums set forth in sections 2, 2B, 2D and 3, for the several purposes and subject to the conditions specified in sections 2, 2B, 2D and 3, are hereby appropriated from the General Fund unless specifically designated otherwise, subject to the provisions of law regulating the disbursement of public funds and the approval thereof for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2010.  All sums appropriated under this act, including supplemental and deficiency budgets, shall be expended in a manner reflecting and encouraging a policy of nondiscrimination and equal opportunity for members of minority groups, women and handicapped persons.  All officials and employees of an agency, board, department, commission or division receiving monies under this act shall take affirmative steps to ensure equality of opportunity in the internal affairs of state government, as well as in their relations with the public, including those persons and organizations doing business with the commonwealth.  Each agency, board, department, commission or division, in spending appropriated sums and discharging its statutory responsibilities, shall adopt measures to ensure equal opportunity in the areas of hiring, promotion, demotion or transfer, recruitment, layoff or termination, rates of compensation, in-service or apprenticeship training programs and all terms and conditions of employment.

SECTION 1A. In accordance with Articles LXIII and CVII of the Articles of Amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth and section 6D of chapter 29 of the General Laws, it is hereby declared that the amounts of revenue set forth in this section by source for the respective funds of the commonwealth for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2010, are necessary and sufficient to provide the means to defray the appropriations and expenditures from such funds for that fiscal year as set forth and authorized in section 2. The comptroller shall keep a distinct account of actual receipts from each such source by each such fund, furnish the executive office for administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means with quarterly statements comparing such receipts with the projected receipts set forth in this section, and include a full statement comparing such actual and projected receipts in the annual report for that fiscal year pursuant to section 12 of chapter 7A of the General Laws. These quarterly and annual reports shall also include detailed statements of any other sources of revenue for the budgeted funds in addition to those specified in this section.

Fiscal Year 2010 Revenue by Source and Budgeted Fund (in Millions)

Tax Source

All Budgeted Funds

General Fund

Highway Fund

SMART

MBTA

Other Budgeted Funds

Alcoholic Beverages

                     70.4

                     70.4

Cigarettes

                   485.6

                   485.6

Corporations

                1,514.0

                1,514.0

Deeds

                   117.0

                   117.0

Estate Inheritance

                   276.5

                   276.5

Financial Institutions

                   351.2

                   351.2

Income

              11,432.0

              11,432.0

Insurance

                   399.3

                   399.2

Motor Fuels

                   651.4

         650.5

                  0.9

Public Utilities

                     72.3

                     72.3

Room Occupancy

                   115.1

                     74.8

                40.3

Sales - Regular

                2,883.0

                1,679.2

         547.8

         656.0

Sales - Meals

                   649.0

                   648.9

Sales - Motor Vehicles

                   489.0

                   285.0

           92.9

         111.1

Miscellaneous

                       3.2

                       3.2

UI Surcharges

                     21.0

 

 

 

 

                21.0

Total Tax Revenues

              19,530.0

              17,409.3

         650.5

         640.7

         767.1

                62.2