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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
STATE HOUSE · BOSTON, MA 02133
(617) 725-4000
MAURA T. HEALEY
GOVERNOR
KIMBERLEY DRISCOLL
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
May 18, 2023
To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives,
I am filing for your consideration a bill entitled “An Act Making Appropriations for
Fiscal Year 2023 to Provide for Supplementing Certain Existing Appropriations and for Certain
Other Activities and Projects.”
This bill consists of $26.2 million in supplemental appropriations and a related
authorizing section to ratify a recently concluded collective bargaining agreement with the
Massachusetts Community College Council.
Sufficient revenues are estimated to be available to finance the appropriations and other
measures proposed in this legislation. Because this agreement requires timely ratification and
funding, I ask you to enact this legislation promptly.
Respectfully submitted,
Maura T. Healey,
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court
(2023-2024)
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An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2023 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
to make supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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:
1 SECTION 1. To provide for supplementing certain items in the general appropriation act
2and other appropriation acts for fiscal year 2023, the sums set forth in section 2 are hereby
3appropriated from the General Fund unless specifically designated otherwise in this act or in
4those appropriation acts, for the several purposes and subject to the conditions specified in this
5act or in those appropriation acts, and subject to the laws regulating the disbursement of public
6funds for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023. These sums shall be in addition to any amounts
7previously appropriated and made available for the purposes of those items. These sums shall be
8made available through the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024.
9 SECTION 2.
10 EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE 2 of 2
11 Reserves
12 1599-4448Collective Bargaining Contract
13Costs…………………………….………$26,233,522
14 SECTION 3. The salary adjustments and other economic benefits authorized by the
15following collective bargaining agreements shall be effective for the purposes of section 7 of
16chapter 150E of the General Laws:
17 between the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education and the Massachusetts
18Community College Council.