Section 1. Chapter 7 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2016 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following new section:-

Section 63. The treasurer, in coordination with the secretary of the commonwealth, shall provide a short summary each year to be mailed to Massachusetts resident taxpayers by March 15, which reports the total amount of income tax paid by Massachusetts residents to the federal government in the prior year, together with the per cent of those dollars appropriated in the prior year’s Congressional discretionary budget to housing, education, healthcare, public transit, biomedical research, veterans services, food stamps and assistance, environmental protection, and defense spending, including nuclear weapons. The summary shall include this information in the form of a pie chart or bar graph, and using the budget numbers reported by the federal Congressional Budget Office. The summary shall also include information noting that Medicare and Social Security programs are financed as trust funds and are not financed through income taxes.

The summary shall also include a report on the commonwealth’s annual budget for the prior fiscal year. The report shall communicate the per cent of the budget allocated to housing, education, healthcare, public transit, criminal justice, veterans services, food stamps and assistance, environmental protection, and conservation and recreation. The report shall also include the contribution of federal funds being returned to Massachusetts in those categories.  The report shall include this information in the form of a pie chart or bar graph. 

The information required under this section may be acquired from any nonpartisan, third-party organization that regularly compiles such data; provided further, there may be an agreement with such an organization to produce the report