Saturday, July 25, 2020

Gov Baker signs funding bill and Juneteenth holiday legislation

From the Milford Daily News, articles of interest for Franklin:
Gov. Charlie Baker on Friday morning signed the $1.1 billion COVID-19 spending bill sent to his desk last week, though he vetoed sections dealing with past MassHealth payments and a program spending floor. 
The bill (H 4808) included hundreds of millions of dollars for some of the more obvious COVID-19 costs, like $350 million for personal protective equipment, $85 million spent on field hospitals and shelters, $44 million for the contact tracing collaborative, and more than $111 million in supplemental payments to hospitals and providers. 
The Baker administration has said that many of the pandemic-related appropriations will be mostly reimbursed by the federal government, and the governor urged the Legislature to act quickly, saying that Massachusetts is in a race with other states to access a limited pool of resources available for reimbursement. 
“Now that this authorization is in place, state agencies can finalize the documentation needed to secure federal reimbursement where available, in particular from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA),” Baker wrote in his signing letter. “Federal reimbursement will be supplemented with other federal funding sources, including but not limited to money from the Coronavirus Relief Fund established by the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. As such, the net state cost is expected to be $0.”
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Gov Baker's letter to the Legislators with his approval and disagreement on two points of funding  https://www.mass.gov/doc/h4808-signing-package/download


Charlie Baker (@MassGovernor) tweeted at 0:21 PM on Fri, Jul 24, 2020:
Today I signed a supplemental budget bill that authorizes #COVID19MA spending and also establishes #Juneteenth Independence Day as an annual state holiday on June 19 in order to recognize the continued need to ensure racial freedom and equality.
➡️READ: https://t.co/xg3iTJbjlu https://t.co/ZqIQBULeRo
(https://twitter.com/MassGovernor/status/1286698008625676289?s=03)

Gov Baker signs funding bill and Juneteenth holiday legislation
Gov Baker signs funding bill and Juneteenth holiday legislation


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