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MA Gen L ch 29 § 5g (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 5g - Reporting and Certification of Tax Revenues Estimated to Have Been Collected From Capital Gains Income During Preceding Periods; Transfer of Excess Amounts Collected to Commonwealth Stabilization Fund and Other Funds

Section 5G. After each quarter, the department of revenue shall certify to the state comptroller the amount of tax revenues estimated to have been collected during the preceding quarter from capital gains income. If the department of revenue certifies that the amount of tax revenues estimated to have been collected from capital gains income exceeds $1,000,000,000 in a fiscal year, the comptroller shall transfer quarterly any such amount that exceeds $1,000,000,000 collected during that fiscal year as follows: (i) 90 per cent shall be transferred to the Commonwealth Stabilization Fund established in section 2H; (ii) 5 per cent shall be transferred to the State Retiree Benefits Trust Fund established in section 24 of chapter 32A; and (iii) 5 per cent shall be transferred to the Commonwealth's Pension Liability Fund established in subsection (e) of subdivision 8 of section 22 of chapter 32. The $1,000,000,000 threshold established in the preceding sentence shall be adjusted annually to reflect the average annual rate of growth in United States gross domestic product over the preceding 5 years based on the most recently available data published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis in the United States Department of Commerce.  The transfers shall be made before the certification of the consolidated net surplus for the previous fiscal year under section 5C. The department of revenue shall report by November 30 to the state comptroller, the executive office for administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means tax revenues estimated to have been collected during the preceding fiscal year from capital gains income. The comptroller shall not make adjustment to amounts previously transferred if the capital gains revenue reported on November 30 differs from the amounts estimated during the preceding fiscal year.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 5h (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 5h - Report on Value of Property Assumed Abandoned; Certification of Actual Receipts; Transfer of Funds

Section 5H. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the state treasurer shall report by September 30 to the state comptroller, the executive office for administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means the value of all property assumed abandoned, as defined by chapter 200A, in the previous fiscal year; provided, however, that beginning October 31 and quarterly thereafter the state treasurer shall, within 15 days, certify to the state comptroller the amount collected in abandoned property revenues for the previous quarter. Not later than October 31, the state treasurer shall certify the amount of actual receipts and distributions to claimants of abandoned property for the previous fiscal year and, beginning in fiscal year 2013, the comptroller shall transfer 75 per cent of the growth in abandoned property net revenue to the Commonwealth Stabilization Fund established in section 2H; provided, however, that such transfer shall be made prior to the certification of the consolidated net surplus for the previous fiscal year as provided in section 5C. For the purposes of this section, ''abandoned property net revenue'' shall mean the difference between abandoned property receipts and distributions to claimants that exceeds the amount of net revenue collected during the previous fiscal year.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 6 - Operating Budget

Section 6. The budget director shall study and review all estimates and requests for appropriations and other authorizations for expenditures of state funds filed with the budget director as provided by sections 3 and 4, and shall make such investigations as will enable the budget director to prepare an operating budget for the governor, setting forth such recommendations as the governor shall determine. The governor may call upon the comptroller for information relative to finances and for assistance in the preparation of the operating budget. The operating budget shall embody all estimates, requests and recommendations for appropriations, distributions of state revenues and other authorizations for expenditures by the commonwealth under existing law, other than for capital facility projects and prior-year appropriations, but including those from retained revenue line-items and those from federal grants, as submitted by each officer having charge of any state agency which receives a periodic appropriation from the commonwealth. The budget recommendations of the governor shall not assume future continuing appropriation of the unspent balances of current or previous appropriations.  The operating budget shall be set out under section 6D and classified and designated so as to show separately estimates and recommendations for: (a) expenses for administration, operation and maintenance; (b) deficiencies or surpluses in appropriations for former years; (c) interest on the public debt and sinking fund and serial bond requirements; and (d) all requests and proposals for expenditures for new programs and other undertakings; and shall include in detail definite recommendations of the governor relative to the amounts which should be appropriated therefor. The operating budget shall show the estimated state revenue of each state agency. The operating budget shall indicate the number of positions proposed to be authorized for each state agency or such other public instrumentality for the ensuing fiscal year, the number of positions for each state agency in the current and ensuing fiscal years and such other information as may be held to explain the anticipated results of the proposed appropriations.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 6c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 6c - Operating Budget; Expenditures From Trust and Bond Funds; Reconciliation of Reports of Budget Director and Comptroller

Section 6C. In addition to information required by section 6 to be included in the budget submitted by the governor, said budget shall also include the following information:  (a) a description of and the amount of expenditure by state agencies from trust funds and bond funds anticipated for the subsequent fiscal year; and  (b) a narrative description accompanied by appropriate fiscal statements which shall reconcile the amounts for state revenues and expenditures for the previous fiscal year as presented by the budget director in the governor's budget with the amounts of state revenues and expenditures for the previous fiscal year as presented by the comptroller in the annual financial report of the commonwealth. Such description shall include a statement concerning the net consolidated surplus or deficit in the budgetary funds which are subject to direct appropriation.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 6d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 6d - Appropriations; Content and Form of General, Supplemental and Deficiency Appropriations Acts

Section 6D. Each appropriation contained in the general appropriations or any supplemental appropriations acts shall include the following information: (a) the line-item number of the appropriation; (b) the purpose of the appropriation and other restrictive language; and (c) the amount of the appropriation or the maximum expenditure allowed, set out in numeric figures. No appropriation otherwise set out in any act shall be valid and the comptroller shall not allow monies to be expended on any appropriation not conforming to the requirements herein established.  The general appropriations act shall include the following sections: (a) section 1 which shall include the enacting clause and general appropriation language; (b) section 1B which shall set forth the budgeted revenues appropriated in the budget according to category (state tax revenue, federal reimbursements, departmental revenues and budgeted transfers), by department, and identifying, by department, budgeted revenues that are restricted for the purpose of supporting retained revenue line-items; (c) section 2 which shall include all direct appropriations and authorizations to retain revenue; (d) section 2B which shall include all appropriations from the Intragovernmental Service Fund; (e) section 2C which shall include any authorizations to continue a prior appropriation; (f) section 2D which shall include all appropriations of federal grants; and (g) section 2E, which shall set forth appropriations to support transfers to funds other than budgetary funds.  Supplemental and deficiency appropriations acts shall include, if necessary, the following sections: (a) section 2 which shall include direct appropriations and authorizations to retain revenue which do not require changes to the purpose of the appropriation or other restrictive language; (b) section 2A which shall include direct appropriations and authorizations to retain revenue which require new language regarding the purpose of the appropriation or other restrictive language; (c) section 2B which shall include all appropriations from the Intragovernmental Service Fund; and (d) section 2C which shall include all authorizations to continue a prior appropriation.  This section shall apply to all appropriations of commonwealth funds, including direct appropriations, retained revenue authorizations, federal grant appropriations, accounts with prior appropriations continued and appropriations from the Intragovernmental Service Fund.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 6e (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 6e - General Appropriation Bill; Balanced Budget

Section 6E. The governor shall recommend, the general court shall enact and the governor shall approve a general appropriation bill which shall constitute a balanced budget for the commonwealth. No supplementary appropriation bill shall be approved by the governor which would cause the state budget for any fiscal year not to be balanced.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 7h1/2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 7h1/2 - Growth Rate of Potential Gross State Product; Actual Economic Growth Benchmark; Report

Section 7H1/2. (a) As used in this section the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:  ''Actual economic growth benchmark,'' the actual annual percentage change in the per capita state's gross state product, as established by the secretary of administration and finance under subsection (c).  ''Growth rate of potential gross state product'', the long-run average growth rate of the commonwealth's economy, excluding fluctuations due to the business cycle.  (b) On or before January 15, the secretary of administration and finance shall meet with the house and senate committees on ways and means and shall jointly develop a growth rate of potential gross state product for the ensuing calendar year which shall be agreed to by the secretary and the committees. In developing a growth rate of potential gross state product the secretary and the committees, or subcommittees of the committees, may hold joint hearings on the economy of the commonwealth; provided, however, that in the first year of the term of office of a governor who has not served in the preceding year, the parties shall agree to the growth rate of potential gross state product k not later than January 31 of that year. The secretary and the committees may agree to incorporate this hearing into any consensus tax revenue forecast hearing held under section 5B. The growth rate of potential gross state product shall be included with the consensus tax revenue forecast joint resolution under said section 5B and placed before the members of the general court for their consideration. The joint resolution, if passed by both branches of the general court, shall establish the growth rate of potential gross state product to be used by the health policy commission to establish the health care cost growth benchmark under section 9 of chapter 6D.  (c) Not later than September 15 of each year, the secretary shall report the actual economic growth benchmark for the previous calendar year, based on the best information available at the time. The information shall be provided to the health policy commission established under chapter 6D.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 7i (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 7i - Requests and Recommendations for Appropriations or Authorizations for Expenditures

Section 7I. All requests and recommendations for appropriations or authorizations for expenditures by the commonwealth, other than those submitted by the governor to the general court under section 2 of Article LXIII of the Amendments to the Constitution, shall be submitted by the governor to the general court; shall be classified to show the request of each officer having charge of an office, department or undertaking, including the priorities assigned to each program by said officer, the recommendation of the secretary of the executive office within which such office, department or undertaking shall be, the recommendation of the governor, and the prior year appropriation, if any; and shall indicate the number, if any, of permanent positions proposed to be authorized for an office, department or undertaking and the number of persons to be served or the number of actions to be taken by such office, department or undertaking.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 7l (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 7l - Appropriation Laws for Commonwealth Expenses; Subject Matter

Section 7L. A law making an appropriation for expenses of the commonwealth shall not contain provisions on any other subject matter. As used in this section, expenses of the commonwealth shall include expenses of the executive, legislative and judicial departments, interest, payments on the public debt, local aid, and other items of expense authorized or required by existing law.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 7m (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 7m - Transfer of Funds Among Appropriation Items for House of Representatives and Senate

Section 7M. The speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate may transfer funds, as needed, among items of appropriation for the house of representatives and the senate, respectively.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 7n (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 7n - Transfer of Funds Among Items of Appropriation for Joint Legislative Expenses

Section 7N. The speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate, acting jointly, may transfer funds, as needed, among the items of appropriation for joint legislative expenses.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 7o (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 7o - Transfer of Funds From Items Appropriated to Joint Legislative Expenses to Items for the House of Representatives and the Senate

Section 7O. The speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate, acting jointly, may transfer funds, as needed, from the items of appropriation for joint legislative expenses to the items of appropriation for the house of representatives and the senate.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 9c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 9c - Deficiency of Revenue

Section 9C. Whenever, in the opinion of the secretary of administration and finance, budgeted revenues as determined by the secretary from time to time during any fiscal year under section 5B will be insufficient to meet all of the expenditures authorized to be made from any budgetary fund, the secretary shall within 5 days notify in writing the governor and the house and senate committees on ways and means of the amount of such probable deficiency of revenue and the governor shall, within 15 days after such notification, reduce allotments under section 9B, and submit in writing a report stating the reason for and effect of such reductions, or submit to the general court specific proposals to raise additional revenues by a total amount equal to such deficiency. Any action challenging the legality of an allotment reduction under this section shall be commenced in the supreme judicial court for Suffolk county.  Whenever the governor reduces allotments under the preceding paragraph, the governor shall notify the house and senate committees on ways and means in writing 15 days before any alterations to the original allotment reduction plan. Any alterations to the original allotment reduction plan that would seek to increase an allotment must provide an equal reduction in other allotments or propose to raise additional revenues to total the amount of the allotment increase.  As an alternative to the submission of such proposals to raise additional revenues and to the extent funds are available, the governor may recommend an appropriation equal to such deficiency from the Commonwealth Stabilization Fund in the manner provided in section 2H.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 9d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 9d - Anticipated Decrease in Estimated Revenue

Section 9D. Whenever it appears probable to any officer having charge of any office, department or undertaking, that amounts to be received from the federal government or any other sources for the purposes of such office, department or undertaking will be less than the amounts previously estimated to be received from such sources, such officer shall immediately notify the secretary of administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means of such anticipated decrease in estimated revenue, and the secretary of administration and finance shall include such decrease in revenue in the secretary's determination of budgeted revenues under section 5B and the deficiency, if any, reported under the previous section.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 9e (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 9e - Insufficient Appropriations for Required Expenditures

Section 9E. Whenever it appears to any officer having charge of any office, department or undertaking that any appropriation therefor will be insufficient to meet all of the expenditures required in the current fiscal year by any law, rule, regulation or order not subject to the officer's control, the officer shall immediately notify the secretary of administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means of the estimated amount of such additional requirements, and such amount shall be added by the secretary to any deficiency reported under section 9C unless, prior to such report, such provisions are changed to make the estimated additional expenditures unnecessary.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 9f (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 9f - Periodic Appropriations; Notification of Expenditures

Section 9F. After the close of each monthly accounting period, the comptroller shall notify the secretary of administration and finance and each officer having charge of an office, department or undertaking which receives a periodic appropriation, of the amount and per cent of each such appropriation which had been expended at the close of the preceding month for that month and for the year-to-date, of the amount available for each such appropriation and of the amount and per cent of each appropriation, if any, for the same purpose expended during the corresponding period in the preceding fiscal year.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 9g (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 9g - Authorization of Expenditures

Section 9G. Sums made available by appropriation or otherwise to offices, departments or undertakings for studies, plans, designs, construction, acquisition, purchase or repair of capital facilities, of highway improvement facilities, such as a highway, bridge or tunnel, and of transportation improvement facilities, such as a mass transportation or other public transit facility, shall be expended only in such amount as may be allotted for expenditure from time to time by the secretary of administration and finance or said secretary's approved designee. The officer in charge of each office, department or undertaking shall submit to the secretary, in such form and at such times as the secretary shall prescribe, such information as may be required by the secretary for making such allotments; provided that before any such information relating to an office, department or undertaking within any of the executive offices established by chapter 6A has been so submitted, it shall first be submitted to the secretary having charge of such executive office, who shall review the same and make such additions, deletions and modifications as such secretary deems appropriate.  The secretary of administration and finance shall issue directives governing expenditure from bond authorizations; such directives shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (1) such measures as determined by said secretary to be necessary to regulate the rate of expenditure from any or all bond authorizations, and (2) such measures as determined by said secretary to be necessary to ensure compliance with such directives, including requiring prior written approval of said secretary before the award of contract or grants.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 9g1/2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 9g1/2 - Publication of Allocation of Commonwealth Debt for Capital Facility Projects

Section 9G1/2. On or before July 1 of each year, the governor shall publish the allocation of commonwealth debt for capital facility projects for the fiscal year starting on July 1 of that year. A copy of the allocation shall be sent to the chairs of the house and senate committees on bonding, capital expenditures and state assets and shall be published electronically on the commonwealth's website.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 12 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 12 - Appropriations for Fiscal Year

Section 12. Appropriations by the general court shall be made for the fiscal year unless otherwise specifically provided in such appropriation.