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JUDICIARY

Fiscal Year 2010 Resource Summary ($000)
DEPARTMENT	FY2010 Budgetary Recommendations	FY2010 Federal, Trust, and ISF	FY2010 Total Spending	FY2010 Budgetary Non-Tax Revenue
Supreme Judicial Court	20,071	195	20,266	2,747
Commission on Judicial Conduct	528	0	528	0
Board of Bar Examiners	1,111	0	1,111	0
Committee for Public Counsel Services	158,298	137	158,435	750
Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee	746	54	800	0
Appeals Court	10,627	0	10,627	441
Trial Court	560,267	0	560,267	128,522
TOTAL	751,649	386	752,034	132,459

account	description	amount
SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT		20,265,645
Budgetary Direct Appropriations		20,070,880
0320-0003	Supreme Judicial Court For the operation of the supreme judicial court	7,624,388
0320-0010	Clerk's Office of the Supreme Judicial Court for the County of Suffolk For the operation of the clerk's office of the supreme judicial court for Suffolk county	1,174,133
0321-1600	Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation For civil legal assistance; provided, that notwithstanding section 9 of chapter 221A of the General Laws, the Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation shall expend $1,254,283 for the Disability Benefits Project, $566,149 for the Medicare Advocacy Project and $2,834,024 for the Battered Women's Legal Assistance Project	10,370,330
0321-2100	Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services For the Massachusetts correctional legal services committee	902,029

account	description	amount
Federal Grant Spending		194,765
0320-1700	State Court Improvement Program For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, State Court Improvement Program	194,765

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account	description	amount
COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL CONDUCT		527,657
Budgetary Direct Appropriations
0321-0001	Commission on Judicial Conduct For the operation of the commission on judicial conduct	527,657

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account	description	amount
BOARD OF BAR EXAMINERS		1,111,341
Budgetary Direct Appropriations
0321-0100	Board of Bar Examiners For the operation of the board of bar examiners	1,111,341

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account	description	amount
COMMITTEE FOR PUBLIC COUNSEL SERVICES		158,435,250
Budgetary Direct Appropriations		158,298,481
Direct Appropriations
0321-1500	Committee for Public Counsel Services For the operation of the committee for public counsel services, including the public defender division; provided, that the chief counsel may transfer funds from this item to item 0321-1510; and provided further, that the chief counsel shall provide written notification to the house and senate committees on ways and means and the secretary of administration and finance of a transfer of funds within 30 days of that transfer	25,480,533
0321-1510	Private Counsel Compensation For compensation paid to private counsel assigned to criminal and civil cases under sections 6 and 12 of chapter 211D of the General Laws; provided, that not more than $1,000,000 of the sum appropriated in this item may be expended for services rendered before fiscal year 2010; provided further, that the chief counsel of the committee for public counsel services may transfer funds from this item to item 0321-1500; and provided further, that the chief counsel shall provide written notification to the house and senate committees on ways and means and the secretary of administration and finance of a transfer of funds within 30 days of that transfer	122,100,783
0321-1520	Indigent Persons Fees and Court Costs For fees and costs as defined in section 27A of chapter 261 of the General Laws, as ordered by a justice of the appeals court or a justice of a department of the trial court on behalf of indigent persons, as defined in section 27A; provided, that not more than $500,000 of the sum appropriated in this item may be expended for services rendered before fiscal year 2010	9,967,165

account	description	amount
Retained Revenues
0321-1518	Indigent Counsel Fees Retained Revenue The chief counsel of the committee for public counsel services may expend an amount not to exceed $750,000 from fees charged for attorney representation of indigent clients	750,000

account	description	amount
Trust and Other Spending		136,769
0321-1604	New England School of Law Trust Fund	9,000
0321-1606	Training for Public and Private Attorneys	32,023
0321-1611	Juvenile Advocacy Project	95,746

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account	description	amount
MENTAL HEALTH LEGAL ADVISORS COMMITTEE		800,327
Budgetary Direct Appropriations		746,016
0321-2000	Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee For the operation of the mental health legal advisors committee	746,016

account	description	amount
Trust and Other Spending		54,311
0301-0860	Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee Trust	54,311

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account	description	amount
APPEALS COURT		10,627,256
Budgetary Direct Appropriations
0322-0100	Appeals Court For the operation of the appeals court	10,627,256

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TRIAL COURT		560,266,881
Budgetary Direct Appropriations
Direct Appropriations
0330-0101	Trial Court Justices' Salaries For the salaries of the justices of the trial court departments	49,836,452
0330-0300	Office of the Chief Justice for Administration and Management For the central administration of the trial court, including the court security program, the Massachusetts sentencing commission and alternative dispute resolution and permanency mediation services; provided, that 50 per cent of all fees payable pursuant to Massachusetts Rules of Criminal Procedure 15(d) and 30(c)(8) shall be paid from this item	191,275,505
0331-0100	Superior Court For the operation of the superior court department	21,740,332
0332-0100	District Court For the operation of the district court department	39,138,126
0333-0002	Probate and Family Court For the operation of the probate and family court department	20,270,501
0334-0001	Land Court For the operation of the land court department	3,148,404
0335-0001	Boston Municipal Court For the operation of the Boston municipal court department	12,480,916
0336-0002	Housing Court For the operation of the housing court department	6,252,851
0337-0002	Juvenile Court For the operation of the juvenile court department	15,176,551
0339-1001	Commissioner of Probation For the operation of the office of the commissioner of probation and the trial court office of community corrections	151,331,833
0339-2100	Jury Commissioner For the operation of the office of the jury commissioner	2,615,410

account	description	amount
Retained Revenues
0330-3333	Trial Court Retained Revenue The chief justice for administration and management may expend for the operation of the trial court an amount not to exceed $22,000,000 from fees charged and collected under section 3 of chapter 90C, chapter 185, section 22 of chapter 218 and sections 2, 4A, 4B, 4C, 39 and 40 of chapter 262 of the General Laws; provided, that the first $58,000,000 of revenue received from the fees shall be deposited in the General Fund and not retained; and provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, for the purpose of accommodating timing discrepancies between the receipt of retained revenues and related expenditures, the chief justice may incur expenses and the comptroller may certify for payment amounts not to exceed one-half of the lower of this authorization or the most recent revenue estimate, as reported in the state accounting system	22,000,000
0330-3334	Probation Service Fees Retained Revenue The chief justice for administration and management may expend for the operation of the trial court an amount not to exceed $25,000,000 from fees charged and collected under section 87A of chapter 276 of the General Laws	25,000,000

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