Bill > H3600

This bill proposes the following key provisions: This bill makes appropriations for the fiscal year 2018 to fund the operations of various state departments, boards, commissions, and institutions, as well as interest, sinking fund, and serial bond requirements, and certain permanent improvements. It establishes revenue sources and estimates to support these appropriations, including tax revenues, federal reimbursements, and other revenue sources. The bill makes several changes to state laws, including: - Establishing a Commonwealth Facility Trust for Energy Efficiency to fund small and medium energy and water efficiency projects at state facilities. - Creating a Non-Acute Care Hospital Reimbursement Trust Fund to provide Medicaid payments to certain non-acute care hospitals. - Modifying the process for developing a consensus tax revenue forecast between the administration and legislature. - Providing a state earned income tax credit and a tax credit for businesses that hire certain veterans. - Requiring third-party payment processors to directly remit sales tax payments to the state. - Establishing an Innovation Voucher Program Fund to provide cost-sharing assistance to small businesses and startups to use core facilities at the University of Massachusetts. - Expanding where communities can set speed limits within thickly settled or business districts. - Allowing retail pharmacies to fill prescriptions for certain controlled substances for patients in long-term care facilities in contiguous states. The bill also includes various other technical and administrative changes to state finance, taxation, and programmatic laws.

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H3600