Massachusetts 2023-2024 Regular Session

Massachusetts House Bill H3869 Compare Versions

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2	2	HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 4347 FILED ON: 5/18/2023
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4	4	OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
5	5	COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
6	6	STATE HOUSE · BOSTON, MA 02133
7	7	(617) 725-4000
8	8	MAURA T. HEALEY
9	9	GOVERNOR
10	10	KIMBERLEY DRISCOLL
11	11	LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
12	12	May 18, 2023
13	13	To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives,
14	14	I am filing for your consideration a bill entitled “An Act Making Appropriations for
15	15	Fiscal Year 2023 to Provide for Supplementing Certain Existing Appropriations and for Certain
16	16	Other Activities and Projects.”
17	17	This bill consists of $26.2 million in supplemental appropriations and a related
18	18	authorizing section to ratify a recently concluded collective bargaining agreement with the
19	19	Massachusetts Community College Council.
20	20	Sufficient revenues are estimated to be available to finance the appropriations and other
21	21	measures proposed in this legislation. Because this agreement requires timely ratification and
22	22	funding, I ask you to enact this legislation promptly.
23	23	Respectfully submitted,
24	24	Maura T. Healey,
25	25	Governor 1 of 2
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27	27	The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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29	29	In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court
30	30	(2023-2024)
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32	32	An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2023 to provide for supplementing certain
33	33	existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects.
34	34	Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purposes, which are
35	35	to make supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2023 and to make certain changes in law,
36	36	each of which is immediately necessary to carry out those appropriations or to accomplish other
37	37	important public purposes, therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for
38	38	the immediate preservation of the public convenience.
39	39	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority
40	40	of the same, as follows:
41	41	1 SECTION 1. To provide for supplementing certain items in the general appropriation act
42	42	2and other appropriation acts for fiscal year 2023, the sums set forth in section 2 are hereby
43	43	3appropriated from the General Fund unless specifically designated otherwise in this act or in
44	44	4those appropriation acts, for the several purposes and subject to the conditions specified in this
45	45	5act or in those appropriation acts, and subject to the laws regulating the disbursement of public
46	46	6funds for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023. These sums shall be in addition to any amounts
47	47	7previously appropriated and made available for the purposes of those items. These sums shall be
48	48	8made available through the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024.
49	49	9 SECTION 2.
50	50	10 EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE 2 of 2
51	51	11 Reserves
52	52	12 1599-4448Collective Bargaining Contract
53	53	13Costs…………………………….………$26,233,522
54	54	14 SECTION 3. The salary adjustments and other economic benefits authorized by the
55	55	15following collective bargaining agreements shall be effective for the purposes of section 7 of
56	56	16chapter 150E of the General Laws:
57	57	17 between the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education and the Massachusetts
58	58	18Community College Council.