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 supplementing certain items in the general appropriations act and other appropriation acts for fiscal year nineteen hundred and ninety-seven and for certain other activities and projects in said fiscal year, the sums set forth in section two A are hereby appropriated from the General Fund unless specifically designated otherwise herein or in said appropriation acts, for the several purposes and subject to the conditions specified herein or in said appropriation acts, and subject to the provisions of law regulating the disbursement of public funds for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ninety-seven. Unless otherwise specified, the sums appropriated herein shall be in addition to any amounts previously appropriated and made available for the purposes of said items.

NO SECTION 2.

SECTION 2A. `tm;keep=no `tcol=6,B4;c1=1,9,tu,T;c2=1,78,tuc;c3=1,78,tuc;c4=12,52,tfh1;c5=16,49,tu;c6=65,13,tur `tc3 EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE. `tc2 Reserves. `tc1 1599-3806 `tc4 For a reserve to meet the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ninety-six and nineteen hundred and ninety-seven costs of salary adjustments and other economic benefits authorized by the collective bargaining agreement between the commonwealth and the Coalition of Public Safety (Unit 5), and to meet the costs of salary adjustments and benefits necessary to provide equal salary adjustments and benefits to employees employed in "confidential" positions which otherwise would be covered by said collective bargaining agreement; provided, however, that the personnel administrator, with the approval of the secretary of administration and finance, shall determine such salary adjustments and benefits for such "confidential" employees in accordance with the provisions of the collective bargaining agreement then in effect which otherwise would cover said positions; provided, further, that said secretary is hereby authorized to transfer from the sum appropriated herein to other items of appropriation and allocations thereof for fiscal year nineteen hundred and ninety-seven such amounts as are necessary to meet the costs of said adjustments and benefits where the amounts otherwise available are insufficient for the purpose, in accordance with a transfer plan which shall be filed in advance with the house and senate committees on ways and means; and provided, further, that said secretary is hereby authorized to allocate the cost of said adjustments and benefits to the several state or other funds to which such items of appropriation are charged `tc6 $1,540,000 `tc1 1599-9989 `tc4 For a one-time reserve in anticipation of capital funding to meet the immediate operating costs of the government land bank for administration and the provision of municipal services for the Devens Regional Enterprise Zone pursuant to the provisions of chapter four hundred and ninety-eight of the acts of nineteen hundred and ninety-three; provided, however, that no funds shall be expended from this item until said government land bank files with the secretary of administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means a financial plan detailing said costs and a schedule projecting the monthly allotment needed to meet said costs; provided, further, that the comptroller is hereby authorized and directed to transfer to said government land bank the monthly allotment amount specified by said schedule; and, provided further, that the General Fund shall be reimbursed any amounts expended from this item from monies generated by any capital outlay appropriations made on behalf of said government land bank for said Devens Regional Enterprise Zone after the effective date of this act `tc6 $3,750,000 `tc3 EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF EDUCATION. `tc2 Department of Education. `tc1 7061-0014 `tc4 For certain one-time costs to correct calculations for the distribution in chapter seventy school aid, so-called, as provided by section three of chapter one hundred and fifty-one of the acts of nineteen hundred and ninety-six; provided, however, that forty thousand four hundred eighty-eight dollars shall be expended for the town of Amherst; provided, further, that two thousand six hundred twenty-five dollars shall be expended for the town of Andover; provided, further, that twenty-seven thousand fifteen dollars shall be expended for the town of Ashfield; provided, further, that six hundred sixty-four dollars shall be expended for the city of Attleboro; provided, further, that seventy-eight thousand seventeen dollars shall be expended for the town of Belchertown; provided, further, that two hundred three thousand seven hundred fourteen dollars shall be expended for the town of Billerica; provided, further, that seven hundred ninety-four thousand two hundred twenty-three dollars shall be expended for the city of Boston; provided, further, that one thousand one hundred twenty-two dollars shall be expended for the town of Brimfield; provided, further, that seventy-one thousand five hundred twenty-one dollars shall be expended for the city of Brockton; provided, further, that eight thousand seven hundred sixty dollars shall be expended for the town of Carver; provided, further, that fifteen thousand one hundred seventy-three dollars shall be expended for the town of Charlemont; provided, further, that three thousand two hundred two dollars shall be expended for the town of Clarksburg; provided, further, that one hundred sixty-three thousand seven hundred one dollars shall be expended for the city of Fall River; provided, further, that three thousand seven hundred sixty-eight dollars shall be expended for the town of Falmouth; provided, further, that one hundred forty-six thousand one hundred twenty-four dollars shall be expended for the city of Fitchburg; provided, further, that nine thousand two hundred three dollars shall be expended for the town of Hawley; provided, further, that sixty-nine thousand four hundred fifty-three dollars shall be expended for the town of Hingham; provided, further, that one thousand five hundred twenty-seven dollars shall be expended for the town of Holland; provided, further, that sixty-three thousand seven hundred forty dollars shall be expended for the city of Lawrence; provided, further, that three thousand five hundred thirty-six dollars shall be expended for the town of Leverett; provided, further, that eleven thousand one dollars shall be expended for the town of Lunenburg; provided, further, that five hundred eighteen thousand seven hundred fifty-two dollars shall be expended for the city of Lynn; provided, further, that one hundred ninety-five thousand six hundred ninety-four dollars shall be expended for the city of Malden; provided, further, that four thousand eight hundred two dollars shall be expended for the town of Pelham; provided, further, that fifty-two thousand six hundred eight dollars shall be expended for the city of Revere; provided, further, that four hundred twelve dollars shall be expended for the city of Salem; provided, further, that two hundred six thousand two hundred thirty-two dollars shall be expended for the city of Springfield; provided, further, that six hundred twenty-eight dollars shall be expended for the town of Sunderland; provided, further, that one hundred fifty dollars shall be expended for the town of Tyringham; provided, further, that one thousand fifty-nine dollars shall be expended for the town of Wales; provided, further, that twenty-three thousand seventy-five dollars shall be expended for the Amherst-Pelham Regional School District; provided, further, that one hundred ninety-seven thousand one hundred fifty dollars shall be expended for the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District; provided, further, that twenty-nine thousand nine hundred five dollars shall be expended for the Gill-Montague Regional School District; provided, further, that one thousand one hundred eighteen dollars shall be expended for the Hampshire Regional School District; provided, further, that five hundred seventy-four dollars shall be expended for the New Salem-Wendell Regional School District; provided, further, that eleven thousand five hundred fifty-nine dollars shall be expended for the Ralph C. Mahar Regional School District; provided, further, that seven thousand eighty-nine dollars shall be expended for the Tantasqua Regional School District; provided, further, that thirty-one thousand two dollars shall be expended for the North Shore Regional School District; provided, further, that three thousand six hundred fifty dollars shall be expended for the Southern Worcester Regional School District; and provided, further, that two thousand forty-nine dollars shall be expended for the Essex County Regional School District `tc6 $3,006,105 `tc5 Local Aid Fund 100.0% `tcol;end

SECTION 3. Item 7061-0011 of section 2 of chapter 151 of the acts of 1996 is hereby amended by striking out the words "; provided, further, that not less than two hundred and sixteen thousand one hundred and seventy-four dollars shall be expended for the Dennis Yarmouth Regional School District", as appearing in section 116 of chapter 204 of the acts of 1996, and inserting in place thereof the following words:- provided, further, that not less than nineteen thousand twenty-four dollars shall be expended for Dennis Yarmouth regional school district.

SECTION 4. Said section 2 of said chapter 151 is hereby further amended by striking out item 7061-9010 and inserting in place thereof the following item:- `tm;keep=no `tcol=6,B4;c1=1,9,tu,T;c2=1,78,tuc;c3=1,78,tuc;c4=12,52,tfh1;c5=16,49,tu;c6=65,13,tur `tc1 7061-9010 `tc4 For fiscal year nineteen hundred and ninety-seven reimbursements to certain cities, towns and regional school districts pursuant to section nineteen of chapter two hundred and sixty-seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and ninety-five; provided, further, that one hundred and twenty-nine thousand four hundred ninety-six dollars shall be expended for below foundation school choice reimbursements to the town of Shirley; and provided, further, that three hundred sixty-four thousand dollars shall be expended for below foundation charter school reimbursements to the city of Medford `tc6 $2,415,461 `tc5 Local Aid Fund 100.0% `tcol;end

SECTION 5. Section 166 of chapter 204 of the acts of 1996 is hereby amended by striking out the line reading "Brookline 22,156" and inserting in place thereof the following line:- Brookline 127,155.

SECTION 6. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, an amount not to exceed four hundred sixty-seven thousand three hundred thirty-two dollars and seventy-five cents of the balance from item 1599-3750 of section two A of chapter thirty-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and ninety-five which otherwise would have reverted as of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ninety-six, shall remain available for expenditure until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ninety-seven.

SECTION 7. For the purposes of calculating chapter seventy school aid, so-called, for fiscal year nineteen hundred and ninety-eight, the amounts delineated below shall be considered as the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ninety-seven chapter seventy school aid, so-called. `t+1 `ts `tcol(*)=2;c1=1,30,tu;c2=42,37,tur `tch `tc1 *7061-0008 *Chapter 70 MUNICIPALITY*School Aid `tc1=1,78,tu;temp `t+1 `tch;end `tc1 Abington*4,714,515 Acton*1,137,052 Acushnet*3,571,652 Adams* Agawam*7,969,963 Alford* Amesbury*7,048,502 Amherst*4,406,656 Andover*2,840,569 Arlington*3,531,573 Ashburnham* Ashby* Ashfield*47,403 Ashland*1,097,118 Athol* Attleboro*16,269,570 Auburn*2,904,820 Avon*351,015 Ayer*3,727,748 Barnstable*2,787,386 Barre*7,451 Becket*2,347 Bedford*1,052,980 Belchertown*5,580,516 Bellingham*5,148,486 Belmont*1,632,669 Berkley*2,314,199 Berlin*307,455 Bernardston* Beverly*4,646,789 Billerica*9,731,234 Blackstone*15,933 Blandford* Bolton* Boston*115,517,953 Bourne*2,156,197 Boxborough*171,660 Boxford*340,535 Boylston*227,445 Braintree*2,681,491 Brewster*300,709 Bridgewater*33,271 Brimfield*733,882 Brockton*65,947,832 Brookfield*1,155,528 Brookline*2,701,838 Buckland* Burlington*2,244,208 Cambridge*4,027,744 Canton*1,457,899 Carlisle*291,341 Carver*6,258,661 Charlemont*36,843 Charlton* Chatham*201,355 Chelmsford*4,382,785 Chelsea*23,850,065 Cheshire*46,418 Chester* Chesterfield*32,665 Chicopee*25,251,717 Chilmark* Clarksburg*870,631 Clinton*6,216,324 Cohasset*719,809 Colrain* Concord*842,673 Conway*374,282 Cummington*27,289 Dalton*276,215 Danvers*1,860,091 Dartmouth*5,213,402 Dedham*1,921,271 Deerfield*482,472 Dennis* Dighton* Douglas*3,050,178 Dover*126,414 Dracut*9,506,830 Dudley* Dunstable* Duxbury*1,565,597 East Bridgewater*5,690,320 East Brookfield*7,636 Eastham*111,905 Easthampton*6,246,791 East Longmeadow*2,545,605 Easton*4,565,568 Edgartown*153,123 Egremont* Erving*163,638 Essex*274,493 Everett*7,840,465 Fairhaven*4,897,900 Fall River*64,902,480 Falmouth*3,031,080 Fitchburg*22,852,450 Florida*340,787 Foxborough*4,047,143 Framingham*4,313,992 Franklin*9,024,902 Freetown*692,129 Gardner*10,147,261 Gay Head* Georgetown*1,837,886 Gill* Gloucester*3,395,196 Goshen*1,650 Gosnold*1,075 Grafton*3,000,502 Granby*1,905,669 Granville*391,483 Great Barrington* Greenfield*7,619,026 Groton* Groveland* Hadley*312,527 Halifax*1,582,251 Hamilton* Hampden* Hancock*41,415 Hanover*1,958,487 Hanson* Hardwick*43,142 Harvard*756,368 Harwich*598,316 Hatfield*488,760 Haverhill*23,751,884 Hawley*18,489 Heath* Hingham*2,045,275 Hinsdale*33,623 Holbrook*3,379,230 Holden* Holland*323,152 Holliston*3,552,919 Holyoke*46,246,297 Hopedale*2,375,831 Hopkinton*1,324,071 Hubbardston* Hudson*4,635,009 Hull*3,316,350 Huntington* Ipswich*1,141,809 Kingston*1,613,820 Lakeville*1,122,064 Lancaster* Lanesborough*420,781 Lawrence*73,216,720 Lee*1,188,870 Leicester*4,778,821 Lenox*910,667 Leominster*18,012,925 Leverett*143,098 Lexington*2,802,306 Leyden* Lincoln*224,505 Littleton*654,804 Longmeadow*2,337,138 Lowell*70,356,716 Ludlow*6,781,649 Lunenburg*2,366,295 Lynn*57,614,750 Lynnfield*1,039,050 Malden*14,345,482 Manchester*424,048 Mansfield*3,966,655 Marblehead*1,347,794 Marion*135,805 Marlborough*2,565,220 Marshfield*7,344,835 Mashpee*1,121,082 Mattapoisett*243,193 Maynard*1,374,230 Medfield*1,144,439 Medford*8,930,786 Medway*3,105,534 Melrose*4,076,443 Mendon* Merrimac* Methuen*14,298,707 Middleborough*10,994,267 Middlefield* Middleton*281,870 Milford*8,856,614 Millbury*3,559,895 Millis*1,220,472 Millville*6,763 Milton*1,696,645 Monroe*12,748 Monson*3,967,121 Montague* Monterey* Montgomery* Mount Washington*5,192 Nahant*213,054 Nantucket*312,585 Natick*2,346,539 Needham*2,072,823 New Ashford*10,720 New Bedford*70,962,735 New Braintree* Newbury* Newburyport*2,214,865 New Marlborough* New Salem* Newton*5,379,166 Norfolk*1,621,926 North Adams*10,603,876 Northampton*5,744,003 North Andover*2,163,587 North Attleborough*8,408,007 Northborough*1,382,533 Northbridge*6,964,209 North Brookfield*2,924,062 Northfield* North Reading*1,524,607 Norton*6,162,553 Norwell*1,136,729 Norwood*2,117,877 Oak Bluffs*112,960 Oakham*45,307 Orange*3,906,049 Orleans*98,465 Otis* Oxford*6,086,304 Palmer*6,041,167 Paxton* Peabody*8,738,286 Pelham*44,762 Pembroke*3,068,314 Pepperell* Peru*37,591 Petersham*114,042 Phillipston* Pittsfield*22,032,780 Plainfield*11,335 Plainville*897,778 Plymouth*12,613,079 Plympton*421,906 Princeton* Provincetown*164,305 Quincy*9,579,537 Randolph*6,759,134 Raynham*13,866 Reading*2,848,025 Rehoboth* Revere*13,696,406 Richmond*232,078 Rochester*524,318 Rockland*7,395,392 Rockport*539,942 Rowe*21,465 Rowley* Royalston* Russell* Rutland* Salem*7,047,005 Salisbury* Sandisfield* Sandwich*2,327,434 Saugus*2,341,756 Savoy*280,845 Scituate*1,874,862 Seekonk*2,243,817 Sharon*2,607,679 Sheffield* Shelburne* Sherborn*157,696 Shirley*2,326,755 Shrewsbury*3,843,718 Shutesbury*295,941 Somerset*1,413,903 Somerville*17,605,326 Southampton*896,386 Southborough*461,537 Southbridge*10,944,320 South Hadley*4,624,259 Southwick* Spencer*94,745 Springfield*133,461,741 Sterling* Stockbridge* Stoneham*1,496,509 Stoughton*6,533,444 Stow* Sturbridge*825,674 Sudbury*1,018,880 Sunderland*463,840 Sutton*2,189,318 Swampscott*1,106,554 Swansea*3,599,614 Taunton*24,131,896 Templeton* Tewksbury*7,243,186 Tisbury*123,260 Tolland* Topsfield*230,965 Townsend* Truro*62,550 Tyngsborough*3,206,262 Tyringham*10,400 Upton* Uxbridge*4,043,156 Wakefield*2,806,368 Wales*537,434 Walpole*3,277,362 Waltham*4,162,251 Ware*4,568,296 Wareham*7,834,077 Warren* Warwick* Washington*19,582 Watertown*1,466,412 Wayland*1,269,949 Webster*5,757,172 Wellesley*1,635,569 Wellfleet*60,640 Wendell* Wenham* Westborough*1,375,662 West Boylston*914,542 West Bridgewater*1,368,750 West Brookfield* Westfield*19,622,443 Westford*2,461,843 Westhampton*162,259 Westminster* West Newbury* Weston*595,883 Westport*2,383,769 West Springfield*8,354,340 West Stockbridge* West Tisbury* Westwood*1,149,102 Weymouth*14,230,954 Whately*51,133 Whitman* Wilbraham* Williamsburg*268,895 Williamstown*739,335 Wilmington*1,909,929 Winchendon*6,695,460 Winchester*1,878,610 Windsor* Winthrop*3,211,557 Woburn*2,666,480 Worcester*91,012,111 Worthington* Wrentham*2,396,198 Yarmouth* `tcol;end
`ts `tcol(*)=2;c1=1,30,tu;c2=42,37,tur `tch `tc1 *7061-0008 *Chapter 70 REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT*School Aid `tc1=1,78,tu;temp `t+1 `tch;end `tc1 Lawrence Vocational* Northampton Smith*762,642 Worcester Trade*6,955,253 Acton Boxborough*2,110,517 Adams Cheshire*7,062,711 Amherst Pelham*5,790,658 Ashburnham Westminster*6,618,505 Ashfield Plainfield* Athol Royalston*11,393,217 Berkshire Hills*2,452,415 Berlin Boylston*683,409 Blackstone Millville*6,969,736 Bridgewater Raynham*13,995,073 Buckland Shelburne* Chesterfield Goshen*360,702 Central Berkshire*5,540,553 Concord Carlisle*1,166,058 Dennis Yarmouth*4,881,580 Dighton Rehoboth*7,342,485 Dover Sherborn*869,245 Dudley Charlton*11,360,461 Nauset*2,335,758 Farmington River*259,688 Freetown Lakeville*4,231,807 Frontier*913,073 Gateway*5,353,280 Groton Dunstable*4,077,542 Gill Montague*4,962,336 Hamilton Wenham*2,312,323 Hampden Wilbraham*6,630,802 Hampshire*1,486,933 Hawlemont*477,631 King Philip*3,503,358 Lincoln Sudbury*1,428,002 Marthas Vineyard*579,340 Masconomet*1,773,194 Mendon Upton*3,065,271 Mount Greylock*1,635,755 Mohawk Trail*4,895,377 Narragansett*5,339,242 Nashoba*4,521,115 New Salem Wendell*624,079 Northboro Southboro*1,191,844 North Middlesex*14,530,345 Old Rochester*1,247,830 Pentucket*7,380,264 Pioneer*2,912,681 Plymouth Carver* Quabbin*9,075,224 Ralph C Mahar*2,877,329 Silver Lake*7,198,677 Southern Berkshire*1,426,018 Southwick Tolland*5,328,531 Spencer East Brookfield*9,432,215 Tantasqua*3,738,004 Triton*6,117,034 Upisland*316,096 Wachusett*13,293,723 Quaboag*5,997,513 Whitman Hanson*14,856,619 Assabet Valley*2,662,938 Blackstone Valley*4,164,132 Blue Hills*3,088,171 Bristol Plymouth*3,824,172 Cape Cod*1,636,406 Franklin County*1,805,563 Greater Fall River*7,692,533 Greater Lawrence*9,417,379 Greater New Bedford*12,042,940 Greater Lowell*12,632,983 South Middlesex*2,237,022 Minuteman*2,170,778 Montachusett*5,189,948 Northern Berkshire*2,269,628 Nashoba Valley*1,841,855 Northeast Metropolitan*4,922,513 North Shore*1,211,746 Old Colony*1,927,269 Pathfinder*1,862,974 Shawsheen Valley*3,044,597 Southeastern*7,188,675 South Shore*1,690,856 Southern Worcester*4,061,129 Tri County*2,402,971 Upper Cape Cod*1,399,721 Whittier*4,390,379 Bristol County*1,245,928 Essex County*3,518,969 `ts Norfolk County*624,441 `tc1=1,78,tu;temp `t+1 `tc1 TOTAL MUNICIPAL AND REGIONAL*2,058,587,637 SCHOOL DISTRICT CH. 70 DISTRIBUTION* `tcol;end `t+1

SECTION 8. This act shall take effect upon its passage.