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MA Gen L ch 29 § 2iiiii (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 2iiiii - Early Education and Care Public-Private Trust Fund

Section 2IIIII. (a) There shall be an Early Education and Care Public-Private Trust Fund. The fund shall be administered by the commissioner of early education and care.  (b) There shall be credited to the fund: (i) revenue from appropriations or other money authorized by the general court and specifically designated to be credited to the fund; (ii) interest earned on such revenues; and (iii) funds from public and private sources, including, but not limited to, gifts, grants and donations, to support state, philanthropic and private partnership efforts supporting Massachusetts childcare providers. Amounts credited to the fund that are unexpended at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the General Fund.  (c) Amounts credited to the fund may be expended, without further appropriation, by the commissioner for the following purposes:  (i) to assist the needs of providers in the early education and care mixed delivery system;  (ii) for the development of an infrastructure to facilitate state, private and philanthropic efforts in support of the early education and care field; and  (iii) for state collaboration with philanthropic organizations and businesses to establish and maintain an infrastructure for providing ongoing technical assistance and programming for the early education and care field including, but not limited to, the enhancement of business stability and sustainability, the fostering of local cross-sector early childhood education collaboration and the enhancement of program quality, including supports for early childhood educators.  (d) Amounts received from private sources shall be approved by the commissioner of early education and care and subject to review before being deposited in the fund to ensure that pledged funds are not accompanied by conditions, explicit or implicit, on the implementation of early education and care policy and planning. The review shall be made publicly available.  (e) The commissioner of early education and care may designate an administrator of the fund for purposes of implementing approved activities consistent with this section.  (f) Annually, not later than November 1, the commissioner of early education and care shall report on the fund's activities to the house and senate committees on ways and means, the chairs of the joint committee on education and the house and senate clerks. The report shall include, but shall not be limited to: (i) the source and amount of funds received; (ii) the amounts distributed and the purpose of expenditures from the fund, including, but not limited to, funds expended to assist early education and care providers; (iii) any grants provided to early education and care programs, philanthropic organizations or other stakeholder organizations; and (iv) anticipated revenue and expenditure projections for the next year.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 2lllll (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 2lllll - Low-Income Services Solar Program

[ Text of section added by 2021, 8, Sec. 54 effective June 24, 2021.]  Section 2LLLLL. There is hereby established and set up on the books of the commonwealth an expendable trust to be known as the low-income services solar program. The secretary of energy and environmental affairs shall establish a grant program to provide solar energy technology to non-profit organizations offering services including, but not limited to, food security, homelessness and emergency shelter; provided, that any such grant shall be expended for solar energy technology at the principal place of the non-profit organization's operations or at any location or site that has a primary or secondary function to provide benefits or services, including, but not limited to, satellite operations space or affiliated organization locations; provided further, that 100 per cent of the solar energy produced by said technology will benefit the awarded non-profit organization. The amounts credited to the trust shall be available for expenditure, subject to appropriation, not to exceed $500,000 in a fiscal year, for the costs associated with purchasing and installing solar energy generating equipment for non-profit organizations that meet criteria set forth by the secretary; provided, that not less than 10 grants shall be awarded per fiscal year; provided further, that no grant amount shall exceed $50,000; and provided further, that grants shall be awarded in geographically diverse areas of the commonwealth. The executive office of energy and environmental affairs shall annually submit a report on disbursements of the trust, including, but not limited to, grant awardees and amounts awarded, to the clerks of the house and senate and the joint committee on telecommunications, utilities and energy not later than December 31.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 2nnnnn (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 2nnnnn - Student Loan Assistance Trust Fund

Section 2NNNNN. There shall be a Student Loan Assistance Trust Fund administered by the office of the attorney general.  Expenditures may be made from the fund to: (i) fund the work of the student loan ombudsman established under section 35 of chapter 12; (ii) provide direct counseling and assistance to student loan borrowers; (iii) receive, review and assist in the resolution of complaints from student loan borrowers; and (iv) pursue legal action on behalf of student loan borrowers including, but not limited to, the investigation of complaints, the costs of personnel and litigation, the engagement of experts and the enforcement of settlements.  Amounts credited to the fund shall not be subject to further appropriation and money remaining in the fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the General Fund. The fund shall retain all interest earned on sums deposited in the fund.  The fund may receive revenue from: (i) appropriations or other money authorized by the general court designated to the fund; and (ii) funds from public or private sources specifically designated for the purposes of this section, including, but not limited to, gifts, grants, donations, rebates and settlements received by the commonwealth.  The office of the attorney general shall provide an annual report to the house and senate committees on ways and means on the fund's activity. The report shall include, but not be limited to: (i) the total amount of money in the fund, designated by source; (ii) the amount of money received by the fund, designated by source; (iii) if settlement funds were received, the percentage of the total settlement amount deposited into the fund; (iv) an accounting of all expenditures from the fund; (v) a description of the activities and staff supported by the fund; and (vi) revenue and expenditure projections for the current fiscal year and for the next fiscal year.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 2ooooo (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 2ooooo - Healthy Soils Program Fund

Section 2OOOOO. (a) There shall be established and set upon the books of the commonwealth a separate fund to be known as the Healthy Soils Program Fund. The secretary of energy and environmental affairs shall administer the fund. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, there shall be credited to the fund any revenue subject to appropriations or other money authorized by the general court and specifically designated to be credited to the fund, including monies appropriated from the Gaming Economic Development Fund, established under section 2DDDD of chapter 29, and any gifts, grants, private contributions, investment income earned by the fund's assets and any designated funds from other sources. No expenditures from the fund shall cause the fund to be in deficiency at the close of the fiscal year. Any money in the fund at the end of the fiscal year shall not revert to the General Fund, shall be available for expenditure in the subsequent year and shall not be subject to section 5C of chapter 29.  (b) Amounts credited to the fund shall be expended, without further appropriation, for the purpose to implement, administer and develop healthy soils practices under the healthy soils program, including, but not limited to, program research and development, education and training in program practices and policies and to provide grants on a competitive basis to individuals, public and private entities and charitable organizations to implement healthy soils practices; provided, however, that no loans shall be made from said fund. Expenditures made from the fund shall complement and not replace existing local, state, private or federal funding for related training and educational programs for healthy soils practices.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 2ppppp (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 2ppppp - Academic Health Department Partnerships Trust Fund

[ Text of section added by 2021, 24, Sec. 17 effective July 1, 2021. See 2021, 24, Sec. 149.]  Section 2PPPPP. There shall be an Academic Health Department Partnerships Trust Fund. The fund shall be administered by the commissioner of public health to support the administration of the academic health department and the academic volunteer corps programs of the department of public health. There shall be credited to the fund all money received from public or private sources including, but not limited to, gifts, grants, donations, bequests and contributions of cash, securities or property in kind from persons or other governmental, nongovernmental, quasi-governmental or local government entities. Expenditures from the fund shall be made to support the academic health department and academic volunteer corps programs, including, but not limited to: (i) staff administrative support; (ii) paid internships; (iii) training and workforce development activities; and (iv) other services in support of the programs. The department of public health may incur expenses and the comptroller may certify amounts for payment in anticipation of expected receipts; provided, however, that no expenditure shall be made from the fund which shall cause the fund to be deficient at the close of a fiscal year. Amounts credited to the fund shall not be subject to further appropriation and money remaining in the fund at the close of a fiscal year shall not revert to the General Fund and shall be available for expenditure in the subsequent fiscal year.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 2qqqqq (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 2qqqqq - Criminal Justice and Community Support Trust Fund

[ Text of section added by 2021, 24, Sec. 17 effective July 1, 2021. See 2021, 24, Sec. 149.]  Section 2QQQQQ. (a) There shall be a Criminal Justice and Community Support Trust Fund that shall be administered by the commissioner of mental health, in consultation with the executive office of public safety and security. The fund shall consist of amounts credited to the fund from: (i) any appropriations, grants, gifts or other money authorized by the general court or other parties and specifically designated to be credited to the fund; and (ii) any income derived from the investment of amounts credited to the fund. Any unexpended balance in the fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the General Fund and shall be available for expenditure in the subsequent fiscal year.  (b) All amounts credited to the fund shall be used without further appropriation to make grants to county and community-based jail diversion programs and community policing and behavioral health training initiatives. The grants shall be for: (i) the support of jail diversion programs for persons living with mental illness or substance use disorder; (ii) the development and provision of training for state, county and municipal law enforcement in evidence-based or evidence-informed mental health and substance use crisis response or alternative emergency response; (iii) the creation of patient-focused, ongoing community services for individuals who are frequent users of emergency departments and live with serious and persistent mental illness or substance use disorder; (iv) the support of trauma-informed, gender-responsive, pre-arrest or pre-arraignment diversion programs; or (v) the planning and implementation of restoration centers to divert individuals living with mental illness or substance use disorder who interact with law enforcement or the court system during a pre-arrest investigation or the pre-adjudication process from lock-up facilities and hospital emergency departments to appropriate treatment.  (c) Annually, not later than March 1, the commissioner of mental health shall issue a report to the clerks of the senate and house of representatives, the joint committee on mental health, substance use and recovery, the joint committee on public safety and homeland security and the senate and house committees on ways and means on the fund's activities including, but not limited to, amounts credited to the fund, amounts expended from the fund and any unexpended balance.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 3a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 3a - Information to Be Provided by Agency or Authority Receiving Periodic Appropriation Upon Request by Committees

Section 3A. Any officer having charge of any state agency which receives a periodic appropriation from the commonwealth, or any officer of a state authority, shall upon the request of any standing committee of the house or senate, or of any joint standing committee of the general court, furnish in writing to such committee, in a format prescribed by such committee, any information requested by such committee that is necessary for the committee to perform its duties. The information shall include, but not be limited to, historical, current or proposed operational costs funded through any appropriation, bond authorizations, federal grants, trust funds or other funding sources, the officer's estimate of the cost of proposed legislation affecting activities which are or would be under the officer's supervision, estimates of and reasons for any supplemental funding that is projected to be needed during the fiscal year, estimates of revenue collections, estimates of proposed changes in fees or taxes, and any other such information as may be required by the committee. Such estimates shall be provided to such committee within 10 days of the receipt of such a request by the officer. If the officer fails to respond within 10 days, the matter shall be referred to the house or senate committee on post audit and oversight which shall, in conjunction with the committee that originally requested the information, determine if further action is necessary.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 3b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 3b - Annual Statement of Planned Expenditures and Employment for Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and Regional Transit Authorities

Section 3B. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and the several regional transit authorities shall annually, on or before September 15, submit to the state budget director, the joint committee on transportation, the house and senate committees on ways and means and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority advisory board (1) statements showing planned expenditures for the current fiscal year and the subsequent fiscal year; provided, however, that said statements shall detail planned expenditures according to program and to the expenditure classification plan promulgated by the state comptroller under section 27; and (2) a statement detailing the number of full time equivalent employees of the authority for the current fiscal year and an estimate of the number of full time equivalent employees for the subsequent fiscal year. The state budget director and the state comptroller shall establish such procedures as they deem necessary to implement and enforce this section.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 4 - Estimates for Purposes Not Covered by Sec. 3; Review; Public Hearing

Section 4. Every officer having charge of any state agency who, in the officer's annual reports or otherwise, recommends or petitions for the expenditure of money by the commonwealth from any source of revenue, including expenditures to be met by assessments or from bond revenues or trust funds, for any purpose not covered by the estimates required to be submitted under section 3, shall, annually, on or before a date set by the secretary of administration and finance, submit detailed estimates thereof to the budget director, together with any other information required by said budget director. Such estimates and other information relating to such state agency before being submitted to the budget director, shall first be submitted to the appropriate secretary, if any, on or before a date set by the secretary; said secretary shall review the same and make such additions, deletions and modifications as the secretary deems appropriate; provided, however, that prior to making any such additions, deletions or modifications, said secretary shall conduct public hearings, for which he shall give at least 5 days public notice, on all items for which the secretary shall submit to the governor a recommendation for an appropriation of $1,000,000 or more.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 5c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 5c - Comptroller's Certification and Disposition of Consolidated Net Surplus

Section 5C. The comptroller shall annually, on or before October 31, certify to the secretary of administration and finance the amount of the consolidated net surplus in the budgetary funds at the close of the preceding fiscal year. Except as otherwise provided by law, the amounts so certified shall be transferred to the Commonwealth Stabilization Fund. This transfer shall be made from the undesignated fund balances in the budgetary funds proportionally from those undesignated fund balances; provided, however, that no such transfer shall cause a deficit in any of those funds. Before certifying the consolidated net surplus under this section, the comptroller shall, to the extent possible, eliminate deficits in any fund contributing to the surplus by transferring positive fund balances from any other fund contributing to the surplus.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 5d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 5d - Indirect and Fringe Benefit Costs Expended From General Fund; Recovery by Comptroller

Section 5D. The comptroller shall determine, based on procedures established by the secretary of administration and finance, the amount expended during the fiscal year from each fund, other than the General Fund, for indirect costs and for the compensation of state personnel. On the basis of said determination, the comptroller shall charge each fund an amount for indirect costs and for fringe benefit costs attributable to compensation paid from the other funds, based on an indirect costs rate and on a fringe benefit rate to be set annually by said secretary. The amount so charged shall be credited to the General Fund. Upon approval of the secretary, and subject to regulations established by the secretary, the amount of indirect costs, either in whole or in part, charged to an account may be waived. The costs of fringe benefits shall be recovered in cash.  The comptroller shall make charges to recover the commonwealth indirect costs and the cost of fringe benefits provided to or on behalf of any person paid compensation by a state agency, authority or public institution of higher education, or by any entity otherwise directly or indirectly receiving state funds, from any source other than a direct expenditure of an appropriation charged to a state fund subject to the preceding paragraph. The comptroller may establish such systems of periodic charges or billings as the comptroller considers necessary and appropriate to ensure the recovery of these costs. Any bill rendered for the purpose of recovery of these costs shall be payable to the comptroller within 30 days after receipt of the bill and all amounts so paid shall be credited to the General Fund.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 5f (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 5f - Department Financial Plans; Contents; Use of Information

Section 5F. Every officer having charge of any state agency which receives a periodic or other appropriation from the commonwealth, shall annually, on or before a date set by the secretary of administration and finance submit to the budget director a department financial plan for the current fiscal year and, at such times as specified by said secretary, revisions to said department financial plan; provided, however, that said officer shall also submit said financial plans to the chairmen of the house and senate committees on ways and means.  The department financial plan shall include statements, in a form prescribed by the budget director, showing in detail: (1) amounts proposed to be expended from each account for each month in the current fiscal year; (2) amounts projected to be received in each revenue account, other than revenue from state taxes, federal grants or proceeds of bonds issued by the commonwealth, for each month in the current fiscal year; and (3) such other information on the expenditures, revenues, activities, output or performance of the state agency as required by the budget director.  The budget director shall provide to the treasurer and comptroller information from department financial plans to develop estimates and projections of monthly, quarterly and annual cash flow required under section 10B of chapter 10, and to prepare monthly reports of planned and actual expenditure and planned and actual revenue for each major state program, department and executive or other constitutional office.