(a) There is established a permanent council within the department of workforce services to be known as the Wyoming governor's state rehabilitation council, to consist of: (i) At one (1) representative of the statewide independent living council; (ii) At least one (1) representative of a parent training and information center; (iii) At least one (1) representative of the client assistance program; (iv) At least one (1) vocational rehabilitative counselor; (v) At least one (1) representative of community rehabilitation program service providers; (vi) Four (4) representatives of business, industry and labor; (vii) At two (2) representatives of disability advocacy groups; (viii) At least two (2) current or former applicants of vocational rehabilitation services; (ix) The administrator of the division of vocational rehabilitation; (x) At least one (1) representative of the department of education; (xi) At least one (1) representative of the state workforce investment board. (b) The director of the department of workforce services shall be an ex officio, nonvoting member of the state rehabilitation council. (c) A majority of council members shall be persons who are: (i) Individuals with disabilities; (ii) Not employed by the division of vocational rehabilitation.
of this act pursuant to this section except as provided by W.S. 273208 and for the payment of expenses for the administration of public employment offices administered by the department of workforce services pursuant to W.S. 922601(e). (b) shall be withdrawn for administrative expenses by legislative appropriation. The appropriation shall: (i) Specify the amounts and purposes for the funds are appropriated; (ii) Limit the period in which the funds may be obligated to not more than two (2) years after the date of enactment; and (iii) Limit the amount which may be obligated to an amount which does not exceed the amount by which the amounts transferred to Wyoming's account pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1103 exceed the aggregate of the amounts used by Wyoming pursuant to this act and charged against the amounts transferred to Wyoming's account. (c) Funds withdrawn for payment of administrative expenses pursuant to this section shall be deposited in the employment security administration account and shall remain a part of the unemployment fund until spent. The department shall maintain a separate record of the deposit, obligation, expenditure and return of funds deposited. Any funds deposited and not spent for purposes specified within the legislative appropriation or remaining at the expiration of the period specified by the appropriation shall be deposited with the United States secretary of the treasury in Wyoming's account in the unemployment trust fund. 273205. Employment security administration account. (a) The employment security administration account is established and shall be administered by the department. The department, with receipt and acknowledgement submitted to the state treasurer, may deposit funds within the account separate from other state funds in an approved public depository in accordance with W.S. 94801 through 94815. Funds deposited into the account are available to the department for expenditure in accordance with this act and shall not be transferred to any other account. Account expenditures, except funds received pursuant to W.S. 273204, shall be only for the payment of necessary administrative expenses of this act as determined by
273209. unemployment insurance trust fund established. (a) is established the state unemployment insurance trust fund. All state unemployment insurance contributions collected under W.S. 273503 through 273505, less refunds, shall be deposited into the fund and held in trust for the sole and exclusive use of payment on unemployment insurance benefits. The state treasurer shall invest available revenues in the fund in accordance with law, and earnings from those investments shall be credited to the workforce development training fund established in W.S. 922604. (b) The director may determine when and in what amounts withdrawals from the state unemployment insurance trust fund for payment of benefits are necessary. Amounts withdrawn for payment of benefits shall be immediately forwarded to the secretary of the treasury of the United States of America to the credit of the state's account in the unemployment trust fund. (c) If the state unemployment insurance trust fund is dissolved, all money then in that fund, less earnings, shall be immediately transferred to the credit of the state's account in the unemployment compensation fund, regardless of other provisions of law. Earnings from the state unemployment insurance trust fund shall be credited to the workforce development training fund established in W.S. 922604. The governor may dissolve the state unemployment insurance trust fund if he finds it to be unnecessary based upon the solvency of the unemployment compensation fund and need for training for Wyoming workers. 273210. Repealed By Laws 2002, Ch. 100, § 4. 273211. Employment support fund established. (a) There is established the employment support fund. Revenues allocated pursuant to W.S. 273505(a) shall be credited to the employment support fund by the department, with receipt and acknowledgement submitted to the state treasurer. The state treasurer shall invest available revenues in the fund in accordance with law, and earnings from those investments shall be credited to the fund. The monies in the employment support fund shall not revert to the general fund at the end of any fiscal year, except that any unappropriated amounts remaining in the fund at the end of any fiscal year shall be transferred by the state treasurer to the state unemployment insurance trust fund created pursuant to W.S. 273209.
wages or compensation while participating in training in an apprenticeship program approved by the department if he: (i) Is attending instruction related to the program when the instruction does not exceed eight (8) weeks during the benefit year of the individual and the attendance in the instruction is required as a condition of the individual's continued enrollment in the apprenticeship program; (ii) Provides the department with a copy of his apprenticeship agreement; (iii) Files claims in accordance with the rules of the department; (iv) Establishes to the satisfaction of the department that the training is an approved apprenticeship program; and (v) Has his most recent employer approve his participation in the training. 273308. Services excluded for eligibility. (a) An individual is not eligible for benefits based on service: (i) In an instructional, research or principal administrative capacity for an educational institution for any week of unemployment beginning between two (2) successive academic years, two (2) regular terms whether or not successive or during a paid sabbatical leave and he has a reasonable assurance to perform services in any such capacity for any educational institution in the second academic year or term or end of the paid sabbatical leave; (ii) In any other capacity for any educational institution for weeks of unemployment beginning September 3, 1982, and thereafter for any week of unemployment beginning between two (2) successive academic years or terms if he is employed in the first academic year or term with a reasonable assurance for employment in the second year or term for any educational institution. If compensation is denied to any individual under this paragraph and he was not offered an opportunity to perform services for the educational institution for the second academic year or term, the individual is entitled to retroactive payment of compensation for each week he filed a
including retraining or educational programs and the award may be adjusted in accordance with fulfillment of the conditions; (F) The division may decrease an award to qualify an employee eligible for maximum benefits under any other state or federal pension plan; (G) Any award granted under this subsection shall not exceed twelve (12) months unless the division determines an award for a period exceeding twelve (12) months but not greater than four (4) years is appropriate. (ii) In the case of a surviving spouse, upon application to the division and a showing of necessity, the division may award continued monthly payments to the spouse not to exceed onethird (1/3) of the statewide average monthly wage for the twelve (12) month period immediately preceding the quarter in which the injury occurred. An award granted under this paragraph shall not exceed twelve (12) months but may be renewed and shall cease at the time the spouse dies or remarries. (h) All awards to a or individual with a legal disability shall be paid: (i) To the legal guardian or conservator if one exists; or (ii) As the division determines to be in the best interests of the minor or individual if there is no legal guardian or conservator. (j) As used in this section: (i) "Actual monthly earnings" means the injured employee's actual monthly earnings at the time of injury excluding any payment for casual or unscheduled overtime and any fringe benefit; (ii) "Overtime" payments for work in excess of forty (40) hours per week; (iii) "Statewide average monthly wage" the statewide average monthly wage for the twelve (12) month period immediately preceding the quarterly period in which the injury occurred as determined pursuant to W.S. 2714802.