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 authorized by the collective bargaining agreement between the commonwealth and the Massachusetts Correction Officers Federated Union - Unit 4, the sum set forth in section two is hereby appropriated from the General Fund, subject to the provisions of law regulating the disbursement of public funds and the conditions pertaining to appropriations in chapter one hundred and thirty-three of the acts of nineteen hundred and ninety-two, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ninety-three.

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SECTION 2A. Salary adjustments provided for by this act shall continue in full force and effect until changed by a subsequent act or by a collective bargaining agreement.

SECTION 2B. The provisions of this act affect a majority of correction officers employed by the commonwealth and therefore it shall be considered general legislation and not a special act.

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