Massachusetts Statutes

Section 64. Each public agency other than a city or town shall prepare a long range capital facilities development plan. Such plan shall include projections at least 5 years from the date of submission of the plan. Each such public agency shall revise the plan annually or at such…

Section 65. In formulating requirements for the information to be provided in long-range capital facilities development plans, the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance shall require at least the following: the history, legislative authority and major responsib…

Section 66. Each public agency other than cities and towns shall prepare and submit to the commissioner, in addition to its long-range capital facilities development plan or revision thereof, an annual capital facility budget at such time as the said commissioner shall require. I…

Section 67. Copies of the proposed plans and requests shall be submitted simultaneously to the commissioner, the secretaries of all executive offices, the director of the fiscal affairs division within the executive office for administration and finance, the state treasurer, the …

Section 68. The commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance shall study and review all long range capital facility development plans and capital facility budget requests and reports pertaining thereto filed with him as provided by sections 64, 65, 66 and 67, and shal…

Section 69. The governor's and the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance capital facility budget shall include provision for establishment of a design and construction contingency reserve account, the purpose of which shall be to provide monies for the design a…

Section 7. Except as otherwise provided in section 3 of chapter 211, the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance shall: (1) be responsible for the acquisition, control and disposition of court facilities on behalf of the commonwealth, in the manner and to the ext…

Section 70. The governor's and the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance capital facility budget shall include provisions for establishment of an emergency repair reserve account, the purpose of which shall be to provide monies for the performance of repair pro…

Section 71. All requests and recommendations for appropriations or authorizations for expenditures by the commonwealth that pertain to capital facility projects shall be studied by the commissioner with reference to any current long range capital facility development plans propos…

Section 72. The commissioner shall, each year, not later than 30 days after the governor submits the budget under section 71, submit to the governor and to the general court a report which shall include, but not be limited to, the following: an evaluation of the effect of the cap…

Section 73. (a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise:— ''Division'', the division of capital asset management and maintenance. ''Environmental product declaration'' or ''EPD'', an independentl…

Section 8. The commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance shall: (1) develop and operate automated management and information systems and provide data processing services; (2) develop and maintain all necessary financial management systems, as prescribed by the comp…

Section 9. The commissioner shall, no less often than once every 3 months, prepare a comprehensive report on the progress of all capital facility projects subject to the jurisdiction of the division of capital asset management and maintenance as defined by section 5 but not inclu…

Section 1. As used in this chapter, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— ''Chief information officer'' or ''CIO'', the chief information officer of the commonwealth. ''Deputy director'', the director of informatio…

Section 10. Subject to and consistent with all applicable federal and state laws, rules, and regulations, the executive office of technology services and security is authorized to collect, maintain, store, share, utilize, analyze and disseminate data.

Section 11. There shall be an inter-branch, interagency oversight board to monitor and ensure that the justice reinvestment policies relative to data collection and its availability to the public achieve anticipated goals. The board shall consist of 16 members: the secretary of t…

Section 2. There shall be an executive office of technology services and security that will be an executive office within the meaning of section 2 of chapter 6A. The office shall be administered by a secretary who shall be appointed by the governor and who shall supervise all act…

Section 3. (a) The office shall have all powers necessary or convenient to carry out its duties including, but not limited to, the power to: (i) establish bureaus and other functional units within the office and hire employees; (ii) as needed, require the consolidation of IT func…

Section 4. The secretary shall, notwithstanding section 45 of chapter 30 and chapter 31, appoint a qualified individual to serve as an enterprise chief information security officer (CISO) for the commonwealth who shall serve at the pleasure of the secretary. The CISO shall advise…

Section 4A. The secretary may, notwithstanding section 45 of chapter 30 and chapter 31, appoint a qualified individual to serve as the chief data officer for the commonwealth, who shall serve at the pleasure of the secretary. Notwithstanding any general or special law, rule, regu…

Section 4B. The secretary may, notwithstanding section 45 of chapter 30 and chapter 31, appoint a qualified individual to serve as commonwealth chief privacy officer, who shall serve at the pleasure of the secretary. The chief privacy officer shall promote privacy and security in…

Section 4C. The secretary may, notwithstanding section 45 of chapter 30 and chapter 31, appoint a qualified individual to serve as chief digital officer, who shall serve at the pleasure of the secretary. The chief digital officer is directed to lead an effort to improve the publi…

Section 5. There shall be a bureau of geographic information within the office which shall develop, maintain, update and distribute geographic information, technology, data and services for use by state agencies, municipalities and the public. The office shall coordinate all geog…

Section 6. (a) The secretary of each executive office established pursuant to section 2 of chapter 6A shall, in consultation with and approval by the secretary, appoint an SCIO of each executive office who shall report to the secretary of that executive office and to the secretar…

Section 7. (a) The CIO shall determine and set a minimum financial threshold above which any proposed IT expenditure by a state agency shall be reviewed and approved by the office. The CIO may suspend an expenditure related to IT until approval has been granted by the office. The…

Section 8. Through interagency service agreements, the office may consult and provide services to municipalities, constitutional officers, the judiciary, the legislature, institutions of higher education, authorities, quasi-public corporations and other political subdivisions of …

Section 9. The office shall develop a statewide information technology plan that shall identify the immediate needs of information technology among state agencies as well as long-term investments in information technology that should be considered by the commonwealth. The plan sh…

Section 1. There shall be within the executive office for administration and finance a bureau of the state house, headed by a superintendent of the state house. The bureau of the state house shall be located in the state house. The superintendent shall be selected by the chairs o…

Section 10. Rooms shall only be assigned to or used by either branch of the general court or any committees or officers thereof, except with the written consent of the presiding officer of the branch using such rooms, or to rooms assigned to or used by joint committees of the gen…

Section 14. The superintendent may expend not more than $10,000 from the State House Special Event Fund established in section 35P of chapter 10 annually for the maintenance of the museum established in the state house for the preservation and exhibition of the regimental flags a…

Section 16. The land now taken by the commonwealth about the state house shall remain an open space, and no railroad or railway shall be constructed or operated in, upon or over the same. A grant made to a railroad or railway corporation shall not be construed to include any port…

Section 16A. The hall bounded by the Hall of Flags, the governor's staircase, the Doric Hall and the senate staircase on the second floor of the state house shall be designated as Civil War Nurses' Hall and suitable mementos may be displayed there from time to time. A suitable ma…

Section 17. Whenever, in the opinion of the commissioner of administration, there is space available, there shall be set apart and suitably furnished rooms in the state house for the use of the Massachusetts Department of the American Legion, the United Spanish War Veterans, the …

Section 17A. The superintendent is hereby designated as the custodian of the flags carried in time of war by organizations of Massachusetts men or women in the military or naval service of the United States, which flags are now in the possession of the commonwealth or which in th…

Section 17B. The superintendent shall set apart and maintain a suitable area located in Doric Hall in the state house for the use of the Massachusetts Historical Commission, such area to be under the charge of said Commission, subject to this section. The area thus set apart shal…

Section 18. The histories, relics and mementos of the Grand Army of the Republic of the department of Massachusetts and the records of the Massachusetts department of the United Spanish War Veterans, of The American Legion, of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War, of t…

Section 18A. The superintendent is hereby authorized to display flags, artifacts, documents, photographs, uniforms, medals and other relics and mementos of veterans on the fourth floor of the state house and may provide space, arrangements and designation for such exhibits and to…

Section 18B. The superintendent is hereby authorized to accept works of art executed as a memorial to the contribution of women to the government of the commonwealth and to display said works in an appropriate public area or areas of the state house. Said superintendent shall exe…

Section 19. The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, may expend, for the purpose of procuring portraits of the governors of the commonwealth who shall have held office subsequent to May fourth, nineteen hundred, such amounts as are appropriated for the purpose, a…

Section 19A. The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, may, on behalf of the commonwealth, accept or otherwise procure suitable portraits or other memorials of the governors of the commonwealth and also of the governors of the province and colony of Massachusetts …

Section 20. In recognition of the place of the old provincial state house in Boston in the history and governance of the commonwealth and of the nation, it is hereby declared to be the intention of the general court to assist in maintaining and preserving it as an historic and pa…

Section 21. No tablet, statue or other memorial of a permanent character shall be placed in the state house without the approval of the general court.

Section 4. The superintendent of the state house may appoint such clerks, engineers, electricians, firemen, oilers, mechanics, elevator operators, janitors, cleaners and other persons as may be necessary to enable him to perform his duties.

Section 5. Cleaners employed by the commonwealth shall each receive such salary as may be fixed under and in accordance with sections forty-five to fifty, inclusive, of chapter thirty, payable weekly. Their work shall not, without proportionate payment for overtime, exceed thirty…

Section 6. The superintendent of the state house shall direct the making of all repairs and improvements in the state house, on the grounds of the state house and to any buildings thereof and all tenants, offices or occupants located in the state house shall make requisition upon…

Section 6A. Notwithstanding any general or special law or rule or regulation to the contrary, the superintendent, or employees designated by the superintendent, may make purchases if the amount involved will not exceed $5,000.