Amendment #500 to H4100

Trial Court Transferability

Representatives Keenan of Salem, Hecht of Watertown, Linsky of Natick, Aguiar of Fall River, deMacedo of Plymouth, Timilty of Milton, Fox of Boston, Rogers of Norwood, Lawn of Watertown, Ferguson of Holden, Scibak of South Hadley, Forry of Boston, Murphy of Weymouth, Andrews of Orange, Schmid of Westport, Murphy of Lowell and Webster of Pembroke move to amend the bill (HB 4100) by striking out section 79 and inserting in place thereof the following section:-

SECTION 79.  Notwithstanding clause (xxiii) of the third paragraph of section 9 of chapter 211B of the General Laws, or any other general or special law to the contrary, the court administrator may, from the effective date of this act through April 30, 2013, transfer funds from any item of appropriation within the trial court to any other item of appropriation within the trial court.  These transfers shall be made in accordance with schedules submitted to the house and senate committees on ways and means.  The schedules shall include the following: (1) the amount of money transferred from any item of appropriation to any other item of appropriation; (2) the reason for the necessity of the transfer; and (3) the date on which the transfer shall be completed.  A transfer under this section shall not occur until 10 days after the revised funding schedules have been submitted in written form to the house and senate committees on ways and means.