Session Laws

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purpose, which is to immediately facilitate the issuance of bonds to finance certain information technology programs, 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. Notwithstanding any provisions of law to the contrary, the bonds which the state treasurer is authorized to issue under section three of chapter one hundred and ninety-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and ninety-two, providing for a program for the acquisition and upgrading of major computer systems, shall be issued for terms not to exceed seven years; provided, however, that all such bonds shall be payable by June thirtieth, two thousand and four, as recommended by the governor in a message to the general court dated October second, nineteen hundred and ninety-two, in pursuance of Section 3 of Article LXII of the Amendments to the Constitution of the Commonwealth.

SECTION 2. Notwithstanding any provisions of law to the contrary, the bonds which the state treasurer is authorized to issue under section four of chapter one hundred and ninety-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and ninety-two, providing for a program for the development and procurement of an automated eligibility determination system for the department of public welfare, shall be issued for terms not to exceed seven years; provided, however, that all such bonds shall be payable by June thirtieth, two thousand and four, as recommended by the governor in a message to the general court dated October second, nineteen hundred and ninety-two, in pursuance of Section 3 of Article LXII of the Amendments to the Constitution of the Commonwealth.