Chapter 29 - State Finance

Section 1 - Definitions
Section 2 - General Fund; Deposit of Revenue
Section 2b - Federal Capital Improvement Fund
Section 2c - General Federal Grants Fund
Section 2h - Commonwealth Stabilization Fund
Section 2i - Tax Reduction Fund
Section 2l - Water Pollution Abatement Revolving Fund
Section 2o - Issuance of Bonds and Notes Payable From Commonwealth Transportation Fund
Section 2q - Intragovernmental Service Fund
Section 2v - Dairy Equalization Fund
Section 2w - Water Pollution Abatement and Drinking Water Projects Administration Fund
Section 2z - Commonwealth Sewer Rate Relief Fund
Section 2jj - Child Care Quality Fund
Section 2qq - Drinking Water Revolving Fund
Section 2rr - Workforce Training Trust Fund
Section 2tt - Liability Management and Reduction Fund
Section 2zz - Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund
Section 2aaa - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Fund
Section 2ddd - Department of Fire Services Hazardous Materials Emergency Mitigation Response Recovery Trust Fund
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 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 5f - Department Financial Plans; Contents; Use of Information
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 5h - Report on Value of Property Assumed Abandoned; Certification of Actual Receipts; Transfer of Funds
Section 6 - Operating Budget
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 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 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 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 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 19a - Time of Making Transfers Called for in General Appropriation Acts
Section 20 - Authorization of Payments
Section 20c - Late Penalty Interest; Submission of Invoice
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 27 - Expenses and Increases Regulated
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 29k - Audit by State Authority of Appropriations Received From the Commonwealth Equal to or in Excess of $500,000; Audit Committee; Compensation Committee; Annual Financial Report; Limitation on Compensation of Executives and Employees of State Authority
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 34 - Deposit of Public Monies
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 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 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 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 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 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 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