HF 1230

as introduced - 79th Legislature (1995 - 1996) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to economic security; providing for extended 
  1.3             employment program audits; requiring certain payments; 
  1.4             appropriating money. 
  1.5   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.6      Section 1.  [EXTENDED EMPLOYMENT.] 
  1.7      The department of economic security, division of vocational 
  1.8   rehabilitation, must complete its audit and reconciliation for 
  1.9   extended employment programs according to the following schedule:
  1.10     (1) fiscal year 1991 by March 20, 1995; 
  1.11     (2) fiscal year 1992 by July 28, 1995; 
  1.12     (3) fiscal year 1993 by July 28, 1995; and 
  1.13     (4) fiscal year 1994 by June 1, 1996. 
  1.14     Due to the lengthy delay involved in the completion of 
  1.15  audits for those fiscal years, no repayments may be required of 
  1.16  providers that the audits indicate have been overpaid unless the 
  1.17  audits disclose fraud, misreporting, misuse, or other illegal 
  1.18  activity associated with the overpayment. 
  1.19     If an audit and reconciliation is not completed by the date 
  1.20  specified, 50 percent of the unliquidated appropriations for the 
  1.21  costs of state administration of the extended employment program 
  1.22  are reappropriated for the purpose of payments to extended 
  1.23  employment program providers and may not be spent for state 
  1.24  administrative costs. 
  1.25     Sec. 2.  [APPROPRIATION; ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.] 
  2.1      Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 268.022, 
  2.2   subdivision 2, the commissioner of finance shall transfer to the 
  2.3   general fund from the dedicated fund $325,000 in the first year 
  2.4   and $325,000 in the second year of the biennium ending June 30, 
  2.5   1997, of the money collected through the special assessment 
  2.6   established in Minnesota Statutes, section 268.022, subdivision 
  2.7   1.  $325,000 in each year is appropriated from the general fund 
  2.8   to the commissioner of economic security for purposes of 
  2.9   administering the extended employment program.  
  2.10     Sec. 3.  [APPROPRIATION; EXTENDED EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM 
  2.11  UNDERPAYMENTS.] 
  2.12     $....... is appropriated from the general fund for the 
  2.13  biennium ending June 30, 1997, to the commissioner of economic 
  2.14  security for the purposes of funding payments to extended 
  2.15  employment providers that were underpaid according to audits 
  2.16  completed for fiscal years 1991, 1992, 1993, and 1994.  
  2.17  Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 268.022, subdivision 
  2.18  2, the commissioner of finance shall transfer to the general 
  2.19  fund from the dedicated fund $....... in the biennium ending 
  2.20  June 30, 1997, of the money collected through the special 
  2.21  assessment established in Minnesota Statutes, section 268.022, 
  2.22  subdivision 1.