HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 4907        FILED ON: 7/8/2016

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 4493

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the One Hundred and Eighty-Ninth General Court
(2015-2016)

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An Act relative to other post-employment benefits liability.

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purpose, which is to provide for other post-employment benefits liability, therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public convenience.
 

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.  (a) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the unexpended balances in items 0699-0014, 0699-0015, 0699-2005 and 0699-9100 shall be deposited into the State Retiree Benefits Trust Fund established in section 24 of chapter 32A of the General Laws not later than June 30, 2017. The amount deposited shall be an amount equal to 10 per cent of all payments received by the commonwealth in fiscal year 2017 under the master settlement agreement in Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Philip Morris, Inc. et al., Middlesex Superior Court, No. 95-7378; provided, however, that if in fiscal year 2017 the unexpended balances of said items 0699-0014, 0699-0015, 0699-2005 and 0699-9100 is less than 10 per cent of all payments received by the commonwealth in fiscal year 2017 under the master settlement agreement payments, an amount equal to the difference shall be transferred to the State Retiree Benefits Trust Fund from payments received by the commonwealth under the master settlement agreement.

(b)  Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the percentage increase set forth in section 152 of chapter 68 of the acts of 2011 shall not apply in fiscal year 2017.

SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect as of July 1, 2016.