HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 5042 FILED ON: 4/21/2020
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PRESENTED BY:
Paul McMurtry and Nika C. Elugardo
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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:
The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:
An Act assisting non-profits to provide for COVID-19 unemployment benefits.
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PETITION OF:
Name: | District/Address: | Date Added: |
Paul McMurtry | 11th Norfolk | 4/14/2020 |
Nika C. Elugardo | 15th Suffolk | 4/21/2020 |
Marcos A. Devers | 16th Essex | 4/21/2020 |
Carlos González | 10th Hampden | 4/22/2020 |
Ruth B. Balser | 12th Middlesex | 4/22/2020 |
Paul R. Feeney | Bristol and Norfolk | 4/22/2020 |
Lindsay N. Sabadosa | 1st Hampshire | 4/22/2020 |
Patrick Joseph Kearney | 4th Plymouth | 4/22/2020 |
Edward J. Kennedy | First Middlesex | 4/22/2020 |
Mary S. Keefe | 15th Worcester | 4/22/2020 |
James K. Hawkins | 2nd Bristol | 4/22/2020 |
Kay Khan | 11th Middlesex | 4/22/2020 |
Kathleen R. LaNatra | 12th Plymouth | 4/22/2020 |
Tami L. Gouveia | 14th Middlesex | 4/23/2020 |
Patrick M. O'Connor | Plymouth and Norfolk | 4/23/2020 |
Denise Provost | 27th Middlesex | 4/23/2020 |
Christina A. Minicucci | 14th Essex | 4/23/2020 |
Linda Dean Campbell | 15th Essex | 4/23/2020 |
Alice Hanlon Peisch | 14th Norfolk | 4/23/2020 |
James B. Eldridge | Middlesex and Worcester | 4/23/2020 |
David Allen Robertson | 19th Middlesex | 4/23/2020 |
Adrian C. Madaro | 1st Suffolk | 4/23/2020 |
Bud L. Williams | 11th Hampden | 4/24/2020 |
Brendan P. Crighton | Third Essex | 4/24/2020 |
Natalie M. Blais | 1st Franklin | 4/24/2020 |
James M. Murphy | 4th Norfolk | 4/24/2020 |
Tackey Chan | 2nd Norfolk | 4/24/2020 |
Mike Connolly | 26th Middlesex | 4/24/2020 |
Stephan Hay | 3rd Worcester | 4/24/2020 |
Aaron Vega | 5th Hampden | 4/24/2020 |
Elizabeth A. Malia | 11th Suffolk | 4/24/2020 |
Daniel Cahill | 10th Essex | 4/24/2020 |
Kevin G. Honan | 17th Suffolk | 4/24/2020 |
John H. Rogers | 12th Norfolk | 4/24/2020 |
John Barrett, III | 1st Berkshire | 4/24/2020 |
Mindy Domb | 3rd Hampshire | 4/24/2020 |
Brian W. Murray | 10th Worcester | 4/24/2020 |
Peter Capano | 11th Essex | 4/26/2020 |
Tram T. Nguyen | 18th Essex | 4/27/2020 |
Thomas M. Stanley | 9th Middlesex | 4/27/2020 |
Jeffrey N. Roy | 10th Norfolk | 4/28/2020 |
Michelle L. Ciccolo | 15th Middlesex | 4/29/2020 |
HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 5042 FILED ON: 4/21/2020
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 4743
By Representatives McMurtry of Dedham and Elugardo of Boston, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Paul McMurtry, Nika C. Elugardo and others relative to assisting non-profit organizations to provide for COVID-19 unemployment benefits. Labor and Workforce Development. |
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the One Hundred and Ninety-First General Court
(2019-2020)
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An Act assisting non-profits to provide for COVID-19 unemployment benefits.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, there shall be a Non-Profit Unemployment Benefit Fund to be administered by the secretary of administration and finance. The purpose of the Fund shall be for financial assistance in the form of matching grants to non-profits within the commonwealth due to the 2019 novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, outbreak and executive order 591 or any subsequent order pursuant to such emergency. The commonwealth shall match dollar for dollar funds provided for in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act’’ or the ‘‘CARES Act’’, Public Law 116-136, for unemployment benefit costs to non profits. For the purposes of this act the term “non-profit”, shall mean corporations formed in a manner prescribed in sections 11 to 13, inclusive, of chapter 156B of the General Laws or an organization that is described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and that is exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of such Code.
There shall be credited to the Fund all amounts that are, by law, transferred or authorized to be transferred thereto or directed to be deposited therein, and all amounts received as gifts, grants, or contributions for the purposes of the Fund. Amounts credited to the Fund shall not be subject to further appropriation and any money remaining in the Fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the General Fund.
On the effective date of this act, the comptroller shall transfer $XX,000,000 from the General Fund to the Non-Profit Unemployment Benefit Fund for the purposes of carrying out this act.