Budget, Ethics, Transportation and Pension

ONE Massachusetts via Blue Mass Group blog has details and analysis on the conference committees considering the FY10 budget and reforms for transportation, ethics and pensions. The ONE Massachusetts website has the full bill text, conference committee members, and analysis of the House and Senate versions.
Of particular interest to towns is this section ...

...in the Senate budget bill, S3,

The commissioner shall remit 50 per cent of the amount collected to the originating city or town, 7.5 per cent to the Municipal Regionalization Incentives Fund established in section 35FF of chapter 10 of the general laws and the balance to cities and towns that have accepted this section; provided, however, that no city or town shall receive more than the total it collected from such sales tax on meals within the corresponding calendar year.