Amendment ID: S2564-8

OTH 8

Repairing the Roderick L. Ireland Courthouse in Springfield

Messrs. Lesser, Gomez and Velis and Ms. Gobi move that the proposed new text be amended in section 2A by inserting after item 1599-2051 the following item:-

xxxx-xxxx. For the Roderick L. Ireland Courthouse Trust Fund ….. $25,000,000; and by adding, after section X, the following two sections:-

"SECTION XX. Chapter 10, as appearing in the 2018 Official Edition of the General Laws, is hereby amended after section 35LLL by adding the following new section:-

Section 35MMM. (a) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, there shall be established and set upon the books of the commonwealth a separate fund to be known as the Roderick L. Ireland Courthouse Trust Fund, herein called the fund. All revenues credited under this section shall remain in said fund and shall be available to be used for the remediation, repair or replacement of the Roderick L. Ireland courthouse in the city of Springfield or the building of a new courthouse in the city of Springfield. All amounts credited to this fund shall be held in trust and shall be made available for expenditure, without further appropriation, by the executive office of the trial court.

(b) Any remaining funds that are not used to repair, rebuild or replace the Roderick L. Ireland courthouse upon completion of said project shall revert to the general fund.

(c) Annually, not later than December 1, and until the completion of said courthouse project, the executive office of the trial court shall report on the activities of the fund to the clerks of the house and senate and to the house and senate committees on ways and means. The report shall include an accounting of expenditures made from the fund and shall include a description of the authorized purpose of each expenditure, an accounting of the amounts credited to the fund and any unexpended balance remaining in the fund.

SECTION XXX. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the executive office of the trial court shall present a plan for repair, replacement or relocation of the Roderick L. Ireland courthouse to the legislature within three months of enactment of this act. "