Session Laws

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 the cost of salary adjustments and other employee economic benefits authorized by the collective bargaining agreement between the commonwealth and the National Association of Government Employees, Local R1-207 (Unit 6) the sum set forth in section two is hereby appropriated, subject to the provisions of law regulating the disbursements of public funds and the conditions pertaining to appropriations in chapter one hundred and forty of the acts of nineteen hundred and eighty-five.

SECTION 2.

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SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.