Bill > H5470

This bill makes supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026, totaling over $700 million, and enacts various changes to tax law and other provisions. * **Judiciary:** * Board of Bar Examiners: $211,857 from the General Fund. * Committee for Public Counsel Services (Indigent Persons Fees and Court Costs): $12,300,000 from the General Fund. * **Office of the Comptroller:** * Settlements and Judgments: $25,000,000 from the General Fund. * **Executive Office of Health and Human Services:** * Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA Caseworkers): $41,651,558 from the General Fund. * Department of Correction (Facility Operations): $31,009,996 from the General Fund. * Office of Refugees and Immigrants (Immigration Legal Assistance Fund): $1,000,000 from the General Fund. * **Transportation:** * Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MBTA Workforce/Safety Reserve): $50,456,516 from the Education and Transportation Innovation and Capital Fund. * Massachusetts Department of Transportation (Programs to improve MBTA physical infrastructure): $60,000,000 from the General Fund. * Massachusetts Department of Transportation (Reserve for low-income reduced fare program): $20,000,000 from the General Fund. * Massachusetts Department of Transportation (Operating transfer to Massachusetts Transportation Trust Fund for workforce and training initiatives): $25,000,000 from the General Fund. * Massachusetts Department of Transportation (Operating transfer to Massachusetts Transportation Trust Fund for unpaved road improvements): $3,750,000 from the General Fund. * Massachusetts Department of Transportation (One-time transportation projects): $19,282,773 from the General Fund. * Massachusetts Department of Transportation (Operating transfer to Massachusetts Transportation Trust Fund for capital infrastructure improvements at regional transit authorities): $10,000,000 from the General Fund. * Massachusetts Department of Transportation (Operating transfer to Massachusetts Transportation Trust Fund for water transportation infrastructure): $15,000,000 from the General Fund. * Massachusetts Department of Transportation (Operating transfer to Massachusetts Transportation Trust Fund for microtransit initiatives): $5,000,000 from the General Fund. * Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (Replenish deficiency fund): $450,000,000 from the General Fund. * Massachusetts Department of Transportation (Operating transfer to Massachusetts Transportation Trust Fund for workforce pipeline and capital project delivery): $20,000,000 from the General Fund. * Massachusetts Department of Transportation (Operating transfer to Massachusetts Transportation Trust Fund for snow, ice, and winter recovery costs): $101,000,000 from the General Fund. * **Executive Office of Education:** * Office of the Secretary (Early Literacy): $20,000,000 from the Education and Transportation Innovation and Capital Fund. * Office of the Secretary (Targeted Scholarships): $15,000,000 from the Education and Transportation Innovation and Capital Fund. * Office of the Secretary (Green Schoolworks): $25,000,000 from the Education and Transportation Innovation and Capital Fund. * Office of the Secretary (Mental Health Supports and Wraparounds): $2,500,000 from the Education and Transportation Innovation and Capital Fund. * Office of the Secretary (Adult Basic Education and Workforce Readiness): $5,000,000 from the Education and Transportation Innovation and Capital Fund. * Office of the Secretary (High Dosage Tutoring): $20,000,000 from the Education and Transportation Innovation and Capital Fund. * Office of the Secretary (Rural School Aid): $4,000,000 from the Education and Transportation Innovation and Capital Fund. * Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (Grant program for cell phone-free schools): $1,000,000 from the General Fund. * Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (Reserve for special education instructional and transportation costs): $152,000,000 from the General Fund. * Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (Grant program for school district shared services and regionalization): $16,500,000 from the General Fund. * Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (Efforts to reduce waitlist for early education and care programs): $38,700,000 from the General Fund. * Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (Grants for civics education programs): $2,050,000 from the General Fund. * Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (Reserve for regional school transportation costs): $3,000,000 from the General Fund. * **Department of Higher Education:** * Public institutions of higher education endowment incentive and capital outlay contribution program: $10,000,000 from the General Fund. * Reserve for financial assistance to Massachusetts students in higher education: $18,300,000 from the General Fund. * Programs to encourage graduates to work as public school educators (Tomorrow's Educators Program, student loan repayment assistance): $10,100,000 from the General Fund. * **University of Massachusetts:** * Public higher education endowment incentive and capital outlay contribution program: $10,000,000 from the General Fund. * Pilot scholarship program for medical students to increase family medicine physicians: $10,000,000 from the General Fund, available through fiscal year 2033. * **Other Appropriations:** * Cannabis Control Commission (Statewide public education and awareness program): $1,000,000 from the General Fund. * Executive Office for Administration and Finance (Boston Soccer 2026 Corp. and World Cup activities): $10,000,000 from the General Fund. * Executive Office for Administration and Finance (Reserve for Health Care Affordability Working Group): $500,000 from the General Fund. * Executive Office for Administration and Finance (Home Energy Assistance Program): $20,000,000 from the General Fund. * Executive Office for Administration and Finance (Reserve for county sheriffs' offices staffing costs): $54,472,655 from the General Fund. * Executive Office for Administration and Finance (Reserve for transition age youth services): $1,000,000 from the General Fund. * Executive Office of Education (Local one-time education projects): $56,321,811 from the Education and Transportation Innovation and Capital Fund. * Behavioral health programs (including workforce scholarship and school-based services): $5,500,000 from the General Fund. * Department of Public Health (Transfer to Affirming Health Care Trust Fund): $3,500,000 from the General Fund. * Transfer from Education and Transportation Innovation and Capital Fund to High-Quality Early Education & Care Affordability Fund: $150,000,000. The bill also includes numerous other specific appropriations for local education projects, transportation improvements, and various other initiatives across the state. Several sections also address tax law changes, including provisions related to qualified opportunity zones, sustainable aviation fuel credits, farm business donations, and pass-through entity taxation.