MA H2

Bill

Making appropriations for the fiscal year 2017 for the maintenance of the departments, boards, commissions, institutions, and certain activities of the commonwealth, for interest, sinking fund, and serial bond requirements, and for certain permanent improvements.

Introduced
01/27/2016

In Committee
01/27/2016

Crossed Over

Passed

Dead
07/31/2016

Introduced Session

189th General Court

Bill Summary

A message from His Excellency the Governor submitting the annual budget of the Commonwealth for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2016 (House, No. 2).

AI Summary

This bill makes appropriations for the fiscal year 2017 for the maintenance of departments, boards, commissions, institutions, and certain activities of the Commonwealth, covering interest, sinking fund, and serial bond requirements, and for certain permanent improvements. It also includes provisions related to MassHealth delivery system reform, including the establishment of the MassHealth Delivery System Reform Trust Fund and the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Trust Fund, changes to MassHealth estate recovery rules, and adjustments to hospital assessments and payments. Additionally, the bill modifies the contribution ratios for state employees' health insurance premiums through the Group Insurance Commission (GIC), clarifies the Department of Transportation's (MassDOT) authority to contract for advertising, expands dual enrollment options for students to include certain career technical institutions, and adjusts the earned income disregard for Transitional Aid to Families with Dependent Children (TAFDC) recipients. It also addresses charter school funding formulas, clarifies the use of Western Turnpike toll revenue, changes the MBTA's budget submission date, and expands the housing court's jurisdiction and judicial resources. Furthermore, the bill includes provisions for the Inspector General to audit the Health Safety Net and MassHealth programs, dedicates certain gaming license fees to the Stabilization Fund, allows for transfers from the Commonwealth Care Trust Fund and the MassHealth Delivery System Reform Trust Fund to the General Fund, and directs the distribution of any fiscal year 2016 consolidated net surplus to the Community Preservation Trust Fund and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Investment Fund. Finally, it outlines how pension obligations, including cost-of-living adjustments, will be met, suspends the tourism formula for fiscal year 2017, adjusts the capital gains tax threshold for transfers to the Stabilization Fund, freezes the special education inflation rate, and makes other technical and administrative changes across various state agencies.

Committee Categories

Budget and Finance

Sponsors (0)

No sponsors listed

Last Action

Reported, in part, by H4200 (on 04/13/2016)

Official Document

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/189/H2

(11 Companion Bills)

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Document Type	Source Location
State Bill Page	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/189/H2
Bill	https://malegislature.gov/Bills/189/H2.pdf

Bill	Bill Name	Last Action	Type
H3187	Further providing for the financing of certain improvements to municipal roads and bridges	Signed by the Governor, Chapter 11 of the Acts of 2015	Similar To
H3202	Providing for the terms of bonds issued by the Commonwealth for municipal road and bridge repairs	Referred to the committee on House Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets	Similar To
H3675	Message from His Excellency the Governor returning with his disapproval of certain sections, and also with recommendation of amendment of certain sections contained in the engrossed Bill making appropriations for the fiscal year 2016 for the maintenance of the departments, boards, commissions, institutions and certain activities of the Commonwealth, for interest, sinking fund and serial bond requirements and for certain permanent improvements (see House, No. 3650).	See H3650	Similar To
H4755	Message from His Excellency the Governor returning with his objections thereto in writing the engrossed Bill protecting the rights of custodial and other non-teaching employees of school districts (see House, No. 2319, amended).	See H2319	Similar To
H4756	Validating the results of the annual town election held in the town of Becket on May 16, 2015	Signed by the Governor, Chapter 393 of the Acts of 2016	Similar To
H49	Addressing the fiscal year 2015 budget shortfall	Reported, in part, by H52	Similar To
H55	Authorizing the town of Scituate to establish the date of its annual town election	Signed by the Governor, Chapter 13 of the Acts of 2015	Similar To
H59	Validating the actions taken at the annual town and special state elections held in the town of Westborough	Signed by the Governor, Chapter 165 of the Acts of 2015	Similar To
H60	Making appropriations for the fiscal year 2015 to provide for supplementing certain existing appropriations and for certain other activities and projects	Reported, in part, by H3203	Similar To
H61	Providing for an employee retirement incentive program	Accompanied a study order, see H4367	Similar To
S1	Message from His Excellency the Governor relative to the general concerns of the Commonwealth	Placed on file	Similar To

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