General Laws of Massachusetts (Last Updated: January 16, 2020) |
PART I ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT |
TITLE III. LAWS RELATING TO STATE OFFICERS |
CHAPTER 29. STATE FINANCE |
SECTION 1. Definitions |
SECTION 2. General Fund; deposit of revenue |
SECTION 2A. Repealed, 1969, 546, Sec. 5 |
SECTION 2B. Federal Capital Improvement Fund |
SECTION 2C. General Federal Grants Fund |
SECTION 2C1/2. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 128 |
SECTION 2D. Repealed, 1990, 121, Sec. 13 |
SECTION 2E. Repealed, 2009, 25, Sec. 32 |
SECTION 2F, 2G. Repealed, 2012, 165, Sec. 112 |
SECTION 2H. Commonwealth Stabilization Fund |
SECTION 2I. Tax Reduction Fund |
SECTION 2J. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 130 |
SECTION 2K. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 131 |
SECTION 2L. Water Pollution Abatement Revolving Fund |
SECTION 2M, 2N. Repealed, 1992, 133, Sec. 337 |
SECTION 2O. Issuance of bonds and notes payable from Commonwealth Transportation Fund |
SECTION 2P. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 132 |
SECTION 2P1/2. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 133 |
SECTION 2Q. Intragovernmental Service Fund |
SECTION 2R. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 134 |
SECTION 2S. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 135 |
SECTION 2T. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 136 |
SECTION 2U. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 137 |
SECTION 2V. Dairy Equalization Fund |
SECTION 2W. Water Pollution Abatement and Drinking Water Projects Administration Fund |
SECTION 2X. Repealed, 2012, 165, Sec. 112 |
SECTION 2Y. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 138 |
SECTION 2Z. Commonwealth Sewer Rate Relief Fund |
SECTION 2AA. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 139 |
SECTION 2BB. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 140 |
SECTION 2CC. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 141 |
SECTION 2DD. Repealed, 2009, 25, Sec. 34 |
SECTION 2EE. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 142 |
SECTION 2FF. Repealed, 2006, 139, Sec. 36 |
SECTION 2GG. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 145 |
SECTION 2HH. Repealed, 2012, 165, Sec. 112 |
SECTION 2II. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 146 |
SECTION 2JJ. Child Care Quality Fund |
SECTION 2KK. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 147 |
SECTION 2LL. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 148 |
SECTION 2MM. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 149 |
SECTION 2NN. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 150 |
SECTION 2OO. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 151 |
SECTION 2PP. Repealed, 2002, 118, Sec. 3 |
SECTION 2QQ. Drinking Water Revolving Fund |
SECTION 2RR. Workforce Training Trust Fund |
SECTION 2SS. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 152 |
SECTION 2TT. Liability Management and Reduction Fund |
SECTION 2UU. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 153 |
SECTION 2VV. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 154 |
SECTION 2WW. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 155 |
SECTION 2XX. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 156 |
SECTION 2YY. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 157 |
SECTION 2ZZ. Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund |
SECTION 2AAA. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Fund |
SECTION 2BBB. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 158 |
SECTION 2CCC. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 159 |
SECTION 2DDD. Department of Fire Services Hazardous Materials Emergency Mitigation Response Recovery Trust Fund |
SECTION 2EEE. Repealed, 2007, 61, Sec. 7 |
SECTION 2FFF. Dam Safety Trust |
SECTION 2GGG. Civil Monetary Penalties Fund; nursing home facilities |
SECTION 2HHH. Open Space Acquisition Revolving Fund |
SECTION 2III. Agricultural Resolve and Security Fund |
SECTION 2JJJ. Registers Technological Fund |
SECTION 2KKK. County Registers Technological Fund |
SECTION 2LLL. Firearms Fingerprint Identity Verification Trust Fund |
SECTION 2MMM. Massachusetts Science, Technology Engineering, and Mathematics Grant Fund |
SECTION 2NNN. Roche Community Rink Fund |
SECTION 2OOO. Commonwealth Care Trust Fund |
SECTION 2PPP. Essential Community Provider Trust Fund |
SECTION 2QQQ. Medical Assistance Trust Fund |
SECTION 2RRR. Department of Developmental Services Trust Fund |
SECTION 2SSS. Educational Rewards Grant Program Fund |
SECTION 2TTT. CITI Fund |
SECTION 2UUU. Massachusetts Board of Higher Education Scholar–Internship Match Fund |
SECTION 2VVV. International education and foreign language grant program fund |
SECTION 2WWW. Workforce Competitiveness Trust Fund |
SECTION 2XXX. District Local Technical Assistance Fund |
SECTION 2YYY. Courts Capital Project Fund |
SECTION 2ZZZ. Commonwealth Transportation Fund |
SECTION 2AAAA. State Athletic Commission Fund |
SECTION 2BBBB. Commonwealth Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Fund |
SECTION 2CCCC. Local Aid Stabilization Fund |
SECTION 2DDDD. Gaming Economic Development Fund |
SECTION 2EEEE. Local Capital Projects Fund |
SECTION 2FFFF. Health Care Workforce Transformation Fund |
SECTION 2GGGG. Distressed Hospital Trust Fund |
SECTION 2HHHH. Fingerprint–Based Background Check Trust Fund |
SECTION 2IIII. Dam and Seawall Repair or Removal Fund |
SECTION 2JJJJ. Public Safety Training Fund |
SECTION 2KKKK. Medical Marijuana Trust Fund |
SECTION 2LLLL. Massachusetts Environmental Police Trust Fund |
SECTION 2MMMM. Home and Community-based Services Policy Lab Fund |
SECTION 2NNNN. Regional Water Entity Reimbursement Fund |
SECTION 2OOOO. Advanced Manufacturing, Technology and Hospitality Training Trust Fund |
SECTION 2PPPP. Massachusetts Seafood Marketing Program Fund |
SECTION 2QQQQ. Logan Airport Health Study Trust Fund |
SECTION 2RRRR. Municipal Naloxone Bulk Purchase Trust Fund |
SECTION 2SSSS. MassHealth Delivery System Reform Trust Fund |
SECTION 2TTTT. Community Hospital Reinvestment Trust Fund |
SECTION 2UUUU. Long–Term Care Facility Quality Improvement Fund |
SECTION 2VVVV. Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Trust Fund |
SECTION 2WWWW. Non–Acute Care Hospital Reimbursement Trust Fund |
SECTION 2XXXX. Municipal Epinephrine Bulk Purchase Trust Fund |
SECTION 2YYYY. Substance Use Disorder Federal Reinvestment Trust Fund |
SECTION 2AAAAA. Safety Net Provider Trust Fund |
SECTION 2BBBBB. Underground Storage Tank Petroleum Product Cleanup Fund |
SECTION 2CCCCC. Civics Project Trust Fund |
SECTION 3. Submission of statements showing prior appropriations, estimates, and recommendations; review |
SECTION 3A. Information to be provided by agency or authority receiving periodic appropriation upon request by committees |
SECTION 3B. Annual statement of planned expenditures and employment for Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and regional transit authorities |
SECTION 4. Estimates for purposes not covered by Sec. 3; review; public hearing |
SECTION 5. Repealed, 1997, 88, Sec. 7 |
SECTION 5A. Repealed, 1963, 473, Sec. 2 |
SECTION 5B. Estimates of budgeted revenues and tax expenditures; consensus tax revenue forecast |
SECTION 5C. Comptroller's certification and disposition of consolidated net surplus |
SECTION 5D. Indirect and fringe benefit costs expended from General Fund; recovery by comptroller |
SECTION 5E. Repealed, 1991, 6, Sec. 17 |
SECTION 5F. Department financial plans; contents; use of information |
SECTION 5H. Report on value of property assumed abandoned; certification of actual receipts; transfer of funds |
SECTION 6. Operating budget |
SECTION 6A. Repealed, 1980, 579, Sec. 47 |
SECTION 6B. Federal grant funds |
SECTION 6C. Operating budget; expenditures from trust and bond funds; reconciliation of reports of budget director and comptroller |
SECTION 6D. Appropriations; content and form of general, supplemental and deficiency appropriations acts |
SECTION 6E. General appropriation bill; balanced budget |
SECTION 7. Repealed, 1980, 579, Sec. 47 |
SECTION 7A to 7G. Repealed, 2012, 165, Sec. 112 |
SECTION 7H. Budget submitted by governor to general court; recommended corrective amendments message |
SECTION 7H1/2. Growth rate of potential gross state product; actual economic growth benchmark; report |
SECTION 7I. Requests and recommendations for appropriations or authorizations for expenditures |
SECTION 7J, 7K. Repealed, 2012, 165, Sec. 112 |
SECTION 7L. Appropriation laws for commonwealth expenses; subject matter |
SECTION 7M. Transfer of funds among appropriation items for House of Representatives and Senate |
SECTION 7N. Transfer of funds among items of appropriation for joint legislative expenses |
SECTION 7O. Transfer of funds from items appropriated to joint legislative expenses to items for the house of representatives and the senate |
SECTION 8. Repealed, 1953, 612, Sec. 7 |
SECTION 8A. Repealed, 1984, 484, Sec. 34 |
SECTION 8B to 9. Repealed, 2012, 165, Sec. 112 |
SECTION 9A. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 166 |
SECTION 9B. Allotment of monies made available by appropriation to state agencies; initial and supplemental allotments by secretary |
SECTION 9C. Deficiency of revenue |
SECTION 9D. Anticipated decrease in estimated revenue |
SECTION 9E. Insufficient appropriations for required expenditures |
SECTION 9F. Periodic appropriations; notification of expenditures |
SECTION 9G. Authorization of expenditures |
SECTION 9G1/2. Publication of allocation of commonwealth debt for capital facility projects |
SECTION 10. Repealed, 1945, 637, Sec. 3 |
SECTION 11. Repealed, 1945, 242, Sec. 10 |
SECTION 12. Appropriations for fiscal year |
SECTION 12A. Obligations incurred against appropriation or subsidiary accounts for future items delivered or services rendered |
SECTION 12B. Fiscal year for payment of classified personal services |
SECTION 13. Encumbrances outstanding at close of fiscal year |
SECTION 13A. Transfer of unexpended balance of fund, trust fund or other separate account to General Fund |
SECTION 14. Appropriations for other than ordinary maintenance; unencumbered balance |
SECTION 15. Successive appropriations |
SECTION 16. Payments from ordinary revenue; cash on hand |
SECTION 17. Withholding appropriations; unadjusted accounts |
SECTION 18. Payments from the treasury regulated |
SECTION 19. Repealed, 2012, 165, Sec. 112 |
SECTION 19A. Time of making transfers called for in general appropriation acts |
SECTION 20. Authorization of payments |
SECTION 20A. Repealed, 2013, 38, Sec. 44 |
SECTION 20B. Repealed, 1996, 366, Sec. 1 |
SECTION 20C. Late penalty interest; submission of invoice |
SECTION 21. Repealed, 2012, 165, Sec. 112 |
SECTION 22. Payments limited; expenses incurred |
SECTION 23. Advancements from treasury; management of state agency funds; funding of checks and drafts |
SECTION 23A. Payments for human service programs; rules and regulations relating to eligibility |
SECTION 24. Advancements; certification of immediate use |
SECTION 25. Advancements; detailed statements; filing by recipients |
SECTION 26. Expenses in excess of appropriations or allotments |
SECTION 26A, 26B. Repealed, 2012, 165, Sec. 112 |
SECTION 27. Expenses and increases regulated |
SECTION 27A. Repealed, 1986, 488, Sec. 17 |
SECTION 27B. Repealed, 2017, 64, Sec. 24 |
SECTION 27C. Certain laws, rules, etc. relating to costs or assessments effective only by vote of acceptance or appropriation; written notice requesting determination; class actions |
SECTION 28. State publications; costs; payments |
SECTION 29. Subsidiary accounts; emergency increase or decrease by interchange; sufficiency of funds to cover disbursements |
SECTION 29A. Consultants; employment and compensation; legislative reports |
SECTION 29B. Contracts with organizations providing social, etc., services |
SECTION 29C. Acquisition of property or services from commercial vendor by general court or agency; liability for late penalty interest |
SECTION 29D. Private debt collectors, employment by state agencies |
SECTION 29E. Maximum reimbursement for project costs |
SECTION 29F. Debarment from bidding; definitions; lists; notice; affiliates; mitigating circumstances |
SECTION 29G. Utility expenses of commonwealth; recoupment of overcharges |
SECTION 29H. Overdue payments to commonwealth; late charges |
SECTION 29I. Payment system for interdepartmental fiscal transactions; service agreements and chargebacks; reports |
SECTION 29J. Use of state funds to pay for executive or legislative agent prohibited |
SECTION 30. Insurance |
SECTION 31. Centralized payroll system; duties of comptroller; authorized payments; wage garnishments |
SECTION 31A. Death, dismissal or retirement of state employees; accumulated vacation or sick-leave allowances; payments |
SECTION 31B. Teachers; weekly payments |
SECTION 31C. Schools and colleges; non-teaching positions; vacation time |
SECTION 31D. Payment of salaries upon death of officers or employees; discharge of liability |
SECTION 31E. Voluntary services at public schools by state employees; effect on salaries |
SECTION 32. Time for presentment for payment of checks issued by the state treasurer; place for payment of checks not timely presented; transfer of unclaimed funds; refunds |
SECTION 32A. Unpaid wages and salaries; unclaimed wage fund; refunds |
SECTION 33. Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec. 2 |
SECTION 34. Deposit of public monies |
SECTION 34A. Repealed, 2006, 139, Sec. 39 |
SECTION 35. Bonds or other securities; assignments, etc. |
SECTION 36. Mortgages held by commonwealth; discharge; assignments |
SECTION 37. Real estate acquired by foreclosure; sale by state |
SECTION 38. Investment of commonwealth funds; loans |
SECTION 38A. Investment funds; establishment; sale of participation units |
SECTION 38B. Deferred compensation committee |
SECTION 38C. Investments; bonds or notes; contracts; powers of state treasurer; payments to constitute general obligations |
SECTION 39. Bonds, etc., held by commonwealth; exchanges |
SECTION 40. Trust deposits with state; form; investment |
SECTION 41. Bonds, etc., of commonwealth; custody |
SECTION 42. Repealed, 2012, 165, Sec. 112 |
SECTION 43. Repealed, 1926, 143 |
SECTION 44. Unappropriated income |
SECTION 45. Securities purchased for sinking funds |
SECTION 46. Transfer of securities from one fund to another |
SECTION 47. Borrowing in anticipation of receipts; use of notes to pay taxes of bearer |
SECTION 47A. Repealed, 2012, 165, Sec. 112 |
SECTION 48. Signatures on bonds and notes |
SECTION 48A. Facsimile signatures, bonds, notes, interest coupons; signatures of former officers |
SECTION 48B. Bonds and notes; official statements; advertising; collateral tax consequences to social security recipients |
SECTION 49. Sinking fund for commonwealth bonds; investments |
SECTION 49A. Minibonds; issuance and sale; limitations; regulations |
SECTION 49B. Insurance or credit line security for bonds and notes; agreements with brokers |
SECTION 49C. College savings programs; issuance and sale of bonds; powers and duties of state treasurer |
SECTION 50. Serial and sinking fund payments; certification |
SECTION 51. Repealed, 2012, 165, Sec. 112 |
SECTION 52. Repealed, 1999, 68, Sec. 7 |
SECTION 53. Notes or bonds maturing later than three years after issuance; requirements for inviting purchase proposals; waiver |
SECTION 53A. Refunding bonds; issuance; proceeds; terms; report |
SECTION 54. Deposits or other security for proposals by bidders |
SECTION 55. Sale of bonds, etc.; expenditures |
SECTION 56. Transfers of reverted funds; sales of bonds or other securities |
SECTION 57. Repealed, 1968, 536 |
SECTION 58. Registered bonds exchanged for coupon bonds or defaced bonds |
SECTION 59. Lost or destroyed interest-bearing bonds; duplicates |
SECTION 60. Lost or destroyed interest-bearing bonds; owner's indemnity bonds |
SECTION 60A. General obligations of the commonwealth, full faith and credit; negotiable instruments; direct debt limit |
SECTION 60B. Capital debt affordability committee; estimation of prudent amount of new debt each fiscal year |
SECTION 61. Claims for materials or labor against commonwealth; oath of claimants |
SECTION 62. Repealed, 1943, 83, Sec. 2 |
SECTION 63. Unlawful exercise or departments abuse of power; commonwealth, commissions, officers, etc.; court restraint |
SECTION 64. Deferred compensation contracts; public employees; investments |
SECTION 64A. Individual retirement accounts; public employees |
SECTION 64B. Deferred compensation contracts between governmental bodies and employees; investments |
SECTION 64C. Individual retirement accounts between governmental bodies and employees |
SECTION 64D. Deferred compensation program, annuity or other defined contribution plan; required participation |
SECTION 64E. Qualified defined contribution plan for employees of not-for-profit employer |
SECTION 65. Delegation of certain powers and duties by secretaries of executive offices established under Chapters six A and seven; review by secretary of administration and finance |
SECTION 66. Violation of state finance laws; penalties |
SECTION 67 to 70. Repealed, 1992, 133, Sec. 346 |
SECTION 71. Treasurer's obligation regarding local aid intercepts |
SECTION 2ZZZZ. Debt and Long-Term Liability Reduction Trust Fund |
SECTION 2DDDDD. Technical Rescue Services Fund |
SECTION 2EEEEE. Massachusetts Veterans and Warriors to Agriculture Program Fund |
SECTION 2FFFFF. Home Care Technology Trust Fund |