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 said fiscal year as set forth and authorized in sections 2 and 2B. The comptroller shall keep a distinct account of actual receipts from each such source by each such fund to 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 herein and to include a full statement comparing such actual and projected receipts in the annual report for said fiscal year pursuant to section 13 of chapter 7A of the General Laws. The 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)

Source

All Budgeted Funds*

General Fund

Commonwealth Transportation Fund

Other**

Alcohol. Bev.

69.5

0.0

Cigarettes

483.9

0.0

Corporations

1,455.8

0.0

Deeds

95.9

0.0

Estate Inheritance

211.4

0.0

Financial Institutions

270.8

0.0

Income

10,372.2

0.0

Insurance

351.4

0.0

Motor Fuels

638.2

0.0

637.3

0.9

Public Utilities

88.9

0.0

Room Occupancy

104.1

67.7

0.0

36.5

Sales-Regular

2,755.3

0.0

Sales-Meals

627.6

0.0

Sales-Motor Vehicles

440.2

0.0

Miscellaneous

2.7

0.0

UI Surcharges

21.1

0.0

21.1

Total Consensus Tax Revenues:

17,989.0

17,293.3

637.3

58.5

Transfer to School Modernization and Reconstruction Trust (SMART) Fund for School Building Authority

(607.1)

0.0

Transfer to MBTA State and Local Contribution Fund

(767.1)

0.0

Transfer to Pension Reserves Investment Trust Fund for Pension Contribution

(1,376.6)

0.0

Total Consensus Tax Revenue for Budget:

15,238.2

14,542.5

637.3

58.5

Revenue Changes

Sales Tax increase to 6.25%

759.0

0.0

Sales Tax Dedicated to Transportation

(275.0)

0.0

Elimination of Alcohol Sales Tax Exemption

78.8

0.0

Annualized Value of Additional Auditors

26.0

0.0

Satellite Television Tax

25.9

0.0

Film Tax Credit Modification

20.0

0.0

Total Taxes Available for Budget:

15,872.9

15,177.2

637.3

58.5

Non-Tax Revenue

Federal Reimbursements

8,278.0

8,272.7

0.0

5.3

Departmental Revenue

2,644.8

2,099.7

523.2

21.9

Consolidated Transfers

413.1

706.3

(77.1)

(216.1)

GRAND TOTAL

27,208.9

26,255.9

1,083.5

(130.4)

* Includes revenue deposited into and transfers out of the Workforce Training Fund, Mass Tourism Fund, Inland Fish and Game Fund, and Stabilization Fund.

** Includes tax revenue of $21.1 M into the Workforce Training Fund, $36.5 M into the Mass Tourism Fund and $0.9 M into the Inland Fish and Game Fund

SECTION 1B. The comptroller shall keep a distinct account of actual receipts of non-tax revenues by each department, board, commission or institution to 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 projected receipts set forth herein and to include a full statement comparing such receipts with projected receipts in the annual report for such fiscal year pursuant to section 13 of chapter 7A of the General Laws. The 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.

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