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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 01:31:48 -0400
From: Rep. Karen E. Spilka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Spilka's State House Connections I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Spilka's State House Connections II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Budget '04 - Overrides
Good Evening/ Good Morning!
Just to let you know, we completed some overrides as of 12 midnight Thursday
evening/Friday morning. On many occasions, House Republicans joined
Democrats in restoring funding -- on about a dozen, restoration was
unanimous. Some of the overrides from today and yesterday include the
following restoration of funds/language:
1. The $160,000 for MERC at Framingham State College
2. The $100,000 for the I � 495 Technology Corridor Partnership
3. The $75,000 for the Technology Initiative of the Metro South/West
Regional Employment Board
4. $5 million in Sewer Rate Relief
5. The $7 million in the Education Reform Reserve, or �Pothole� Fund
6. Money to fully fund the special education �Circuit Breaker� - $6.5 m
7. DMR � Line Items for: Administration; Community Based Day & Work
Programs; Independent Living; and Turning 22
8. Home care administration & management and congregate housing & care for
seniors and disabled
9. Councils on Aging
10. 4110-2000 Mass Rehab Comm - Turning 22 services
11. 4110-0001 Office of the Commissioner of the Blind; the governor reduced
the item by $213,456, to $611,836
12. 2010-0100 Clean Environment Recycling Initiative; the governor reduced
the item by $2,900,000, to $613,437
13. 4513-1026, a $125,000 line item for suicide prevention
14. 7000-9101 Board of Library Commissioners; the governor reduced the item
by $100,000, to $791,182.
15. 1410-0012 Veterans Outreach; the governor reduced the item by $165,000,
to $853,615
16. 4130-0002 child abuse prevention program trust fund administration;
the governor fully vetoed the $870,557 line item
17. 4510-0720, a $250,000 line item for nurse�s aide scholarships
18. Legal Assistance Corp, Mental Health Legal �dvisors
19. Regional Library Funding
20. Breast Cancer Screening& Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment ($2.7 m)
21. Prostate Cancer Screening
22. AIDS
23. Smoking Cessation and Prevention Programs
24. Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Program
25. Commission for the Blind
- Community Services and Admin
- Talking Information Centers
- Radio Reading Service Funded included
26. Riverways Protection
Watershed Management
27. DMH - Adult In- Patient and Community Mental Health
Also � Overrode governor�s veto of:
- Outside Section 604: Commission to study alternatives to property tax to
fund education
- Outside Section 607: local aid/chapter 70 formula study commission
We also passed an Act to continue the Teacher/Principal Quality Endowment �
the signing Bonuses and Master Teacher funds
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Karen E. Spilka
State Representative
7th Middlesex District
State House, Room 443
Boston, MA 02133
Tel.: (617) 722-2460
FAX: (617)626-0474
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