2023 Indiana Code › Title 22. Labor and Safety › Article 4. Unemployment Compensation System › Chapter 26. Unemployment Insurance Benefit Fund › 22-4-26-5. Use of Money From Federal Unemployment Trust Fund; Appropriations

Sec. 5. (a) Money credited to the account of this state in the unemployment trust fund by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1103, as amended, may be requisitioned and used for the payment of expenses incurred for the administration of this article and public employment offices pursuant to a specific appropriation by the general assembly, provided that the expenses are incurred and the money is requisitioned after the enactment of an appropriation statute which:
(1) specifies the purposes for which such money is appropriated and the amounts appropriated therefor;
(2) except as provided in subsection (i), limits the period within which such money may be obligated to a period ending not more than two (2) years after the date of the enactment of the appropriation statute; and
(3) limits the total amount which may be obligated during a twelve (12) month period beginning on July 1 and ending on the next June 30 to an amount which does not exceed the amount by which:
(A) the aggregate of the amounts credited to the account of this state pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1103, as amended, during such twelve (12) month period and the twenty-four (24) preceding twelve (12) month periods; exceeds
(B) the aggregate of the amounts obligated by this state pursuant to this section and amounts paid out for benefits and charged against the amounts credited to the account of this state during such twenty-five (25) twelve (12) month periods.
(b) For the purposes of this section, amounts obligated by this state during any such twelve (12) month period shall be charged against equivalent amounts which were first credited and which have not previously been so charged, except that no amount obligated for administration of this article and public employment offices during any such twelve (12) month period may be charged against any amount credited during such twelve (12) month period earlier than the fourteenth preceding such twelve (12) month period.
(c) Amounts credited to the account of this state pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1103, as amended, may not be obligated except for the payment of cash benefits to individuals with respect to their unemployment and for the payment of expenses incurred for the administration of this article and public employment offices pursuant to this section.
(d) Money appropriated as provided in this section for the payment of expenses incurred for the administration of this article and public employment offices pursuant to this section shall be requisitioned as needed for payment of obligations incurred under such appropriation and upon requisition shall be deposited in the employment and training services administration fund but, until expended, shall remain a part of the unemployment insurance benefit fund. The commissioner shall maintain a separate record of the deposit, obligation, expenditure, and return of funds so deposited. If any money so deposited is for any reason not to be expended for the purpose for which it was appropriated, or if it remains unexpended at the end of the period specified by the statute appropriating such money, it shall be withdrawn and returned to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States for credit to this state's account in the unemployment trust fund.
(e) There is appropriated out of the funds made available to Indiana under Section 903 of the Social Security Act, as amended by Section 209 of the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (which is Title II of the federal Jobs Creation and Worker Assistance Act of 2002, Pub.L107-147), seventy-two million two hundred thousand dollars ($72,200,000) to the department of workforce development. Unencumbered money at the end of a state fiscal year does not revert to the state general fund.
(f) Money appropriated under subsection (e) is subject to the requirements of IC 22-4-37-1.
(g) Money appropriated under subsection (e) may be used only for the following purposes:
(1) The administration of the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program and the Wagner Peyser public employment office program.
(2) Acquiring land and erecting buildings for the use of the department of workforce development.
(3) Improvements, facilities, paving, landscaping, and equipment repair and maintenance that may be required by the department of workforce development.
(h) In accordance with the requirements of subsection (g), the department of workforce development may allocate up to the following amounts from the amount described in subsection (e) for the following purposes:
(1) Thirty-nine million two hundred thousand dollars ($39,200,000) to be used for the modernization of the Unemployment Insurance (UI) system beginning July 1, 2003, and ending June 30, 2013.
(2) For:
(A) the state fiscal year beginning after June 30, 2003, and ending before July 1, 2004, five million dollars ($5,000,000);
(B) the state fiscal year beginning after June 30, 2004, and ending before July 1, 2005, five million dollars ($5,000,000);
(C) the state fiscal year beginning after June 30, 2005, and ending before July 1, 2006, five million dollars ($5,000,000);
(D) the state fiscal year beginning after June 30, 2006, and ending before July 1, 2007, five million dollars ($5,000,000);
(E) the state fiscal year beginning after June 30, 2007, and ending before July 1, 2008, five million dollars ($5,000,000); and
(F) state fiscal years beginning after June 30, 2008, and ending before July 1, 2012, the unused part of any amount allocated in any year for any purpose under this subsection;
for the JOBS proposal to meet the workforce needs of Indiana employers in high wage, high skill, high demand occupations.
(3) For:
(A) the state fiscal year beginning after June 30, 2003, and ending before July 1, 2004, four million dollars ($4,000,000); and
(B) the state fiscal year beginning after June 30, 2004, and ending before July 1, 2005, four million dollars ($4,000,000);
to be used by the workforce investment boards in the administration of Indiana's public employment offices.
(i) The amount appropriated under subsection (e) for the payment of expenses incurred in the administration of this article and public employment is not required to be obligated within the two (2) year period described in subsection (a)(2).
Formerly: Acts 1947, c.208, s.2705; Acts 1957, c.299, s.10; Acts 1965, c.190, s.15; Acts 1969, c.300, s.6; Acts 1973, P.L.239, SEC.6. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.126; P.L.18-1987, SEC.72; P.L.21-1995, SEC.108; P.L.224-2003, SEC.120; P.L.234-2007, SEC.68; P.L.3-2008, SEC.160; P.L.205-2013, SEC.337.