HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 96        FILED ON: 1/8/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 96

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act extending emergency powers to reduce allotments..

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. The first paragraph of section 9B of chapter 29 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out the first sentence and inserting in place thereof the following sentence:- Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, any monies appropriated by the general court and funds distributed in accordance with section 3 of the general appropriation act, shall be expended only in such amounts as may be allotted as provided in this section.

SECTION 2. Said section 9B of said chapter 29, as amended by section 1 of this act, is hereby further amended by striking out the first sentence and inserting in place thereof the following sentence:- Any monies made available by appropriation or otherwise, to state agencies under the control of the governor or a secretary, but not including the courts, the office of the governor and the office of the lieutenant governor, shall be expended only in such amounts as may be allotted as provided in this section.

SECTION 3.  Section 2 shall take effect on July 1, 2009.