Oregon Statutes 657.812 – Use of moneys credited to Unemployment Trust Fund by Secretary of the Treasury
(1) Money credited to the account of this state in the Unemployment Trust Fund by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States of America pursuant to section 903 of the Social Security Act, as amended, may be requisitioned and used for the payment of expenses incurred for the administration of this chapter pursuant to a specific appropriation by the legislature, provided that the expenses are incurred and the money is requisitioned after the enactment of an appropriation law which:
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 657.812
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- employment: includes service that is:
(a) Subject to the tax imposed by the Federal Unemployment Tax Act; or
(b) Required to be covered under this chapter as a condition for employers to receive a full tax credit against the tax imposed by the Federal Unemployment Tax Act. See Oregon Statutes 657.030
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- United States: includes territories, outlying possessions and the District of Columbia. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
(a) Specifies the purposes for which the money is appropriated and the amounts appropriated therefor;
(b) Limits the period within which such money may be obligated to a period ending not more than two years after the date of the enactment of the appropriation law; and
(c) Limits the amount which may be obligated under such appropriation at any time to an amount which does not exceed, at any such time, the amount by which the aggregate of the amounts transferred to the account of such state pursuant to section 903 of the Social Security Act, as amended, exceeds the aggregate amount of the amounts used by the state for administration and charged against the amounts transferred to the account of such state.
(2) For purposes of this section, amounts obligated for administrative purposes pursuant to an appropriation shall be chargeable against transferred amounts at the exact time the obligation is entered into. The appropriation, obligation, expenditure or other disposition of money appropriated under this section shall be accounted for in accordance with standards established by the United States Secretary of Labor.
(3) Money appropriated as provided in this section for the payment of expenses of administration shall be requisitioned as needed for the payment of obligations incurred upon such appropriation, and upon requisition shall be deposited in the Unemployment Compensation Administration Fund from which such payments shall be made. Money so deposited shall, until expended, remain a part of the Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund and, if not expended, shall be returned promptly to the account of this state in the Unemployment Trust Fund.
(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, money credited to the account of this state pursuant to section 903 of the Social Security Act, as amended, and which has been or will be appropriated for administrative expenses of the Employment Department shall, for the purposes of the computation of fund adequacy percentage ratio, be deemed a part of the Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund. [1957 c.609 § 7; 1959 c.604 § 1; 1969 c.703 § 1; 1973 c.24 § 1; 1983 c.508 § 13; 1991 c.685 § 10]