Massachusetts General Laws
Chapter 29 - State Finance
Section 2bbbb - Commonwealth Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Fund

Massachusetts General Laws

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 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 2zzzz - Debt and Long-Term Liability Reduction 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 2ddddd - Technical Rescue Services Fund

Section 2eeeee - Massachusetts Veterans and Warriors to Agriculture Program Fund

Section 2fffff - Home Care Technology Trust Fund

Section 2ggggg - Behavioral Health Outreach, Access and Support Trust Fund

Section 2hhhhh - Massachusetts Cultural and Performing Arts Mitigation Trust Fund

Section 2iiiii - Early Education and Care Public-Private Trust Fund

Section 2jjjjj - Federal Covid-19 Response Fund

Section 2kkkkk - Nonpublic Ambulance Service Reimbursement Trust Fund

Section 2lllll - Low-Income Services Solar Program

Section 2mmmmm - Genocide Education Trust Fund

Section 2nnnnn - Student Loan Assistance Trust Fund

Section 2ooooo - Healthy Soils Program Fund

Section 2ppppp - Academic Health Department Partnerships Trust Fund

Section 2qqqqq - Criminal Justice and Community Support 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 Sta...

Section 30 - Insuring Property of the Commonwealth

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; Budgets

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