AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2017 TO PROVIDE FOR SUPPLEMENTING CERTAIN EXISTING APPROPRIATIONS AND FOR CERTAIN OTHER ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS
Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purposes, which are forthwith to make supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2017 and to make certain changes in law, each of which is immediately necessary to carry out those appropriations or to accomplish other important public purposes, 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. To provide for supplementing certain items in the general appropriation act and other appropriation acts for fiscal year 2017, the sums set forth in section 2 are hereby appropriated from the General Fund unless specifically designated otherwise in this act or in those appropriation acts, for the several purposes and subject to the conditions specified in this act or in those appropriation acts and subject to the laws regulating the disbursement of public funds for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017. These sums shall be in addition to any amounts previously appropriated and made available for the purposes of those items. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, appropriations made in section 2 shall not revert and shall be available for expenditure until June 30, 2017.
SECTION 2.
JUDICIARY
Committee on Public Counsel Services
INDEPENDENTS
Treasurer and Receiver-General
Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination
Office of the Comptroller
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF Health and human services
Department of Public Health
Department of Children and Families
Department of Mental Health
Department of Developmental Service
Department of Elder Affairs
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF housing and economic development
Department of Housing and Community Development
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF Public safety AND SECURITY
Department of Correction
SECTION 2A. To provide for certain unanticipated obligations of the commonwealth, to provide for an alteration of purpose for current appropriations and to meet certain requirements of law, the sums set forth in this section are hereby appropriated from the General Fund unless specifically designated otherwise in this section, for the several purposes and subject to the conditions specified in this section and subject to the laws regulating the disbursement of public funds for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017. These sums shall be in addition to any amounts previously appropriated and made available for the purposes of those items.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE
Office of the Secretary for Administration and Finance
SECTION 2B. To provide for supplementing certain intragovernmental chargeback authorizations in the general appropriation act and other appropriation acts for fiscal year 2017, to provide for certain unanticipated intragovernmental chargeback authorizations, to provide for an alteration of purpose for current intragovernmental chargeback authorizations and to meet certain requirements of law, the sums set forth in this section are hereby authorized from the Intragovernmental Service Fund for the several purposes specified in this section or in the appropriation acts and subject to the laws regulating the disbursement of public funds for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017. These sums shall be in addition to any amounts previously authorized and made available for the purposes of those items.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF HEALTH ANS HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the Secretary
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF PUBLIC SAFETY
Department of State Police
SECTION 3. Section 49 of chapter 7 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2014 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out subsection (d) and inserting in place thereof the following subsection:-
(d) The commission shall adopt an annual budget and supplemental budgets as deemed necessary by the commission. The budgets shall be funded by the commonwealth and accounted for separately as specified in section 22C of chapter 32.
SECTION 4. Section 40 of chapter 15A of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out, in lines 137 and 138, the words, “the state employees retirement system shall contribute” and inserting in place thereof the following words:- there shall be an employer contribution in.
SECTION 5. Said section 40 of said chapter 15A, as so appearing, is hereby further amended by inserting after the word “program”, in line 141, the following words:- , which contribution shall be funded by the commonwealth and accounted for separately in the commonwealth funding schedule as defined in section 1 of chapter 32.
SECTION 6. Section 1 of chapter 32 of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out the definition of “Commonwealth’s pension liability”, as amended by section 1 of chapter 86 of the acts of 2015, and inserting in place thereof the following definition:-
“Commonwealth's pension liability”, the financial obligation of the commonwealth to pay all retirement benefits pursuant to this chapter for the state employees’ retirement system, the teachers’ retirement system, for teachers employed by the city of Boston and for the commonwealth’s share of the administrative cost of the Boston retirement system; provided, however, that “commonwealth’s pension liability” shall also include any other pension obligations of a system or of the commonwealth relative to future pension liabilities which the commonwealth may assume by general or special law on behalf of any system other than the state employees’ retirement system, the teachers’ retirement system, for teachers employed by the city of Boston and the commonwealth’s financial obligations which are associated with cost-of-living adjustments or other benefits for members of systems other than the state employees’ retirement system and the teachers’ retirement system who are not teachers employed by the city of Boston.
SECTION 7. The second paragraph of paragraph (e) of subdivision (8) of section 22 of said chapter 32, as appearing in the 2014 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out clauses (ii) to (vi), inclusive, and inserting in place thereof the following 3 clauses:-
(ii) all monies transferred from the annuity reserve funds of the state employees’ retirement system and the teachers’ retirement system pursuant to paragraph (c) of subdivision (2) or from the investment accounts of such systems pursuant to clause (iii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision (6);
(iii) all undistributed accumulated total deductions for the state employees’ retirement system and the teachers’ retirement system transferred pursuant to subdivision (3) of section 11; and
(iv) all assets of the state employees’ retirement system and the teachers’ retirement system except assets credited to such systems’ expense funds, annuity savings funds and annuity reserve funds.
SECTION 8. The first paragraph of subdivision (1) of section 22C of said chapter 32, as so appearing, is hereby amended by inserting after the first sentence, the following 2 sentences:- In addition to the amount necessary to fully fund the system that is transferred to the Commonwealth’s Pension Liability Fund, the schedule shall include, and the comptroller shall transfer from the General Fund to the appropriate parties without further appropriation, the following amounts: (i) the administrative expenses for the public employee retirement administration commission as adopted annually by the commission pursuant to section 49 of chapter 7; (ii) the employer contribution to the optional retirement program under section 40 of chapter 15A; and (iii) reimbursements to local retirement systems for all cost of living adjustments made available by those systems on or after July 1, 1981 including, but not limited to, adjustments made available pursuant to section 102. Those amounts shall be accounted for separately.
SECTION 9. Section 100A of said chapter 32, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out, in lines 9, 24, 35 and 37, the figure “$150,000” and inserting in place thereof, in each instance, the following figure:- $300,000.
SECTION 10. Section 5D of chapter 40 of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by inserting after the word “member”, in line 42, the following words:- or, in the case of a teacher as defined in section 1 of chapter 32, to the General Fund of the commonwealth.
SECTION 11. Section 7 of chapter 62C of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out, in line 3, the word “fourth” and inserting in place thereof the following word:- third.
SECTION 12. The first paragraph of section 11 of said chapter 62C, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out the first sentence and inserting in place thereof the following 2 sentences:- Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, every business corporation, as defined in section 30 of chapter 63, shall file a return providing such information as the commissioner deems necessary for the determination of the taxes imposed upon it by said chapter 63. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, an S corporation, as defined under section 1361 of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended and in effect for the taxable year, shall file a return on or before the fifteenth day of the third month following the close of each taxable year, and any other business corporation shall file a return on or before the fifteenth day of the fourth month following the close of each taxable year.
SECTION 13. Section 12 of said chapter 62C, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out, in lines 2 and 59, the word “third” and inserting in place thereof, in each instance, the following word:- fourth.
SECTION 14. Said section 12 of said chapter 62C, as so appearing, is hereby further amended by striking out, in lines 14, 20, 43 and 64, the word “March” and inserting in place thereof, in each instance, the following word:- April.
SECTION 15. Item 1599-4445 of section 2A of chapter 70 of the acts of 2016 is hereby amended by striking out the words “fiscal year 2016”.
SECTION 16. Item 0511-0000 of said section 2 of chapter 133 of the acts of 2016 is hereby amended by striking out, in line 3, the figure “0540-0900” and inserting in place thereof the following words:- 0511-0000, 0511-0001, 0511-0002, 0511-0200, 0511-0230, 0511-0250, 0511-0260, 0511-0270, 0511-0420, 0517-0000, 0521-0000, 0521-0001, 0521-0002, 0521-0006, 0524-0000, 0526-0100, 0540-0900.
SECTION 17. Item 0940-0101 of said section 2 of said chapter 133 is hereby amended by striking out the figure “$2,518,910” and inserting in place thereof the following figure:- $2,985,910.
SECTION 18. Item 4590-0918 of said section 2 of said chapter 133 is hereby amended by striking out the figure “$19,665,858” and inserting in place thereof the following figure:- $25,000,000.
SECTION 19. Section 151 of said chapter 133 is hereby amended by striking out, in line 18, the word “March” and inserting in place thereof the following word:- May.
SECTION 19A. The special legislative commission established by said section 151 of said chapter 133 is hereby revived and continued.
SECTION 20. The second sentence of the first paragraph of chapter 4 of the resolves of 2016 is hereby amended by inserting after the word “ethics”, the first time it appears, the following words:- or a designee.
SECTION 21. Said second sentence of said first paragraph of said chapter 4 is hereby further amended by inserting after the word “ethics”, the second time it appears, the following words:- or a designee.
SECTION 22. Said second sentence of said first paragraph of said chapter 4 is hereby further amended by inserting after the word “oversight”, the first time it appears, the following words:- or their designees.
SECTION 23. Said first paragraph of said chapter 4 is hereby further amended by striking out the last sentence and inserting in place thereof the following sentence:- The senate and house chairs of the joint committee on state administration and regulatory oversight or their designees and the chairs of the house and senate committees on ethics or their designees shall serve as co-chairs of the task force.
SECTION 24. The fourth paragraph of said chapter 4 is hereby amended by striking out the words “March 15” and inserting in place thereof the following words:- June 1.
SECTION 24A. The special legislative commission established by chapter 4 of the resolves of 2016 is hereby revived and continued.
SECTION 25. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, during fiscal year 2017, all reimbursement received by the state employees’ retirement system and the teachers’ retirement system under paragraph (c) of subdivision (8) of section 3 of chapter 32 of the General Laws or under paragraph (b) of subdivision (4) of section 7 of said chapter 32 shall be credited to the General Fund established by section 2 of chapter 29 of the General Laws.
SECTION 26. The salary adjustments and other economic benefits authorized by the collective bargaining agreement between the commonwealth and the Coalition of Public Safety shall be effective for the purposes of section 7 of chapter 150E of the General Laws.
SECTION 27. Section 9 shall take effect as of March 15, 2017 and shall apply to applications received by the state board of retirement under section 100A of chapter 32 of the General Laws on or after March 15, 2017.
SECTION 28. Sections 11 to 14, inclusive, shall take effect on January 1, 2018.
SECTION 29. Section 15 shall take effect on October 6, 2016.
SECTION 30. Section 19A shall take effect as of March 1, 2017.
SECTION 31. Section 24A shall take effect as of March 15, 2017.
Approved, March 28, 2017