Initial Gross Payments to Qualifying Acute Care Hospitals
SECTION 56.
Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, on or before October 1, 2007 and without further appropriation, the comptroller shall transfer from the General Fund to the Health Safety Net Trust Fund, established in section 36 of chapter 118G of the General Laws, an amount not to exceed $45,000,000 for the purpose of making initial gross payments to qualifying acute care hospitals and community health centers for the hospital fiscal year beginning October 1, 2007. These payments shall be made to hospitals before, and in anticipation of, the payment by hospitals of their gross liability to this fund. The comptroller shall transfer from this fund to the General Fund not later than June 30, 2008, the amount of the transfer authorized in this section and any allocation of that amount as certified by the director of the health safety net office.