ENROLLED HOUSE
BILL NO. 1398	By:	Wesselhoft of the House

			     and

		Holt of the Senate

An Act relating to appropriations; making appropriation to Employment Security Administration Fund; specifying amount and purpose of appropriation; requiring expenditure by certain date; requiring certain federal standards; requiring compliance with Social Security Act; and providing an effective date.

SUBJECT:  Appropriation to Employment Security Administration Fund

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:

SECTION 1.  There is hereby appropriated to the Employment Security Administration Fund, out of funds made available to this state by the federal Unemployment Compensation Modernization Transfer made on June 25, 2009, pursuant to Section 903(f) of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C., Section 1103(f), as amended, the amount of Ten Million Dollars ($10,000,000.00) to be used by the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission for the purpose of paying the administrative expenses of the following programs in the following amounts:

1.  The Employment Service Program in the amount of Four Million Four Hundred Thousand Dollars ($4,400,000.00); and

2.  The Unemployment Insurance Program in the amount of Five Million Six Hundred Thousand Dollars ($5,600,000.00).

The funds appropriated by this section shall be expended before December 31, 2012.  Expenditure from this appropriation shall be accounted for in accordance with the standards established by the United States Secretary of Labor.  The Oklahoma Employment Security Commission shall utilize the appropriation made by this section in accordance with the provisions and requirements contained in the Social Security Act, Title 42 of the United States Code.

SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2011.

Passed the House of Representatives the 16th day of March, 2011.

	
Presiding Officer of the House of
	Representatives

Passed the Senate the 20th day of April, 2011.

	
Presiding Officer of the Senate