2001 Minnesota Statutes

     268.196 Administration account. 

    Subdivision 1.    Administration account.  (a) There is 
 hereby created in the state treasury a special account to be 
 known as the administration account.  All money that is 
 deposited or paid into this account shall be continuously 
 available to the commissioner for expenditure to administer the 
 Minnesota unemployment insurance program and the job service, 
 and shall not lapse at any time.  The administration account 
 shall consist of: 

    (1) all money received from the federal government to 
 administer the Minnesota unemployment insurance program and the 
 job service; 

    (2) any money received as compensation for services or 
 facilities supplied to the federal government or any other 
 state; 

    (3) any amounts received for losses sustained by this 
 account or by reason of damage to equipment or supplies; and 

    (4) any proceeds from the sale or disposition of any 
 equipment or supplies that may no longer be necessary for the 
 proper administration of those sections.  

    (b) All money in this account shall be deposited, 
 administered, and disbursed in the same manner and under the 
 same conditions and requirements as are provided by law for the 
 other special accounts in the state treasury.  The commissioner 
 of finance, as treasurer and custodian of this account, shall be 
 liable for the faithful performance of duties in connection with 
 this account. 

    (c) All money in this account shall be spent solely for the 
 purposes and in the amounts found necessary by the United States 
 Secretary of Labor for the proper and efficient administration 
 of the Minnesota unemployment insurance program and the job 
 service. 

    Subd. 2.    State to replace money wrongfully used.  If 
 any money received under United States Code, title 42, section 
 501 of the Social Security Act or the Wagner-Peyser Act, is 
 found by the United States Secretary of Labor to have been spent 
 for purposes other than, or in amounts in excess of, those 
 necessary for the proper administration of the Minnesota 
 unemployment insurance program and the job service, the 
 commissioner may replace the money from the contingent account.  
 If the money is not replaced from the contingent account, it is 
 the policy of this state that the money be replaced by money 
 appropriated for that purpose from the general funds of this 
 state.  If not replaced from the contingent account, the 
 commissioner shall, at the earliest opportunity, submit to the 
 legislature a request for the appropriation of that amount.  

    Subd. 3.    Contingent account.  (a) There is hereby 
 created in the state treasury a special account, to be known as 
 the contingent account, that shall not lapse nor revert to any 
 other fund.  This account shall consist of all money 
 appropriated therefor by the legislature, all money in the form 
 of interest and penalties collected pursuant to sections 
 268.057, 268.18, and 268.184, all money received in the form of 
 voluntary contributions to this account, and any interest earned 
 on the account.  All money in this account shall be supplemental 
 to all federal money available to the commissioner.  Money in 
 this account is hereby appropriated to the commissioner and 
 shall be available to the commissioner for those expenditures 
 the commissioner considers necessary in connection with the 
 administration of the Minnesota unemployment insurance program 
 and the job service. 

    (b) Whenever the commissioner spends money from the 
 contingent account for the administration of the Minnesota 
 unemployment insurance program and the job service for which 
 money will later be made available by the federal government, 
 the contingent account shall, when money is available, be 
 reimbursed from the administration account.  The commissioner 
 shall certify to the commissioner of finance the amount of the 
 reimbursement and the commissioner of finance shall transfer 
 that amount from the administration account to the contingent 
 account.  

    (c) All money in this account shall be deposited, 
 administered, and disbursed in the same manner and under the 
 same conditions and requirements as is provided by law for the 
 other special accounts in the state treasury.  On June 30 of 
 each year, all amounts in excess of $300,000 in this account 
 shall be paid over to the unemployment insurance program trust 
 fund. 

    HIST: Ex1936 c 2 s 13; 1941 c 554 s 12; 1945 c 376 s 12; 1953 
 c 97 s 16; 1957 c 883 s 8-10; 1963 c 721 s 1; 1965 c 45 s 46; 
 1969 c 399 s 1; 1969 c 567 s 3; 1973 c 254 s 3; 1973 c 492 s 14; 
 1973 c 720 s 73 subd 1; 1974 c 497 s 1; 1975 c 302 s 2; 1Sp1982 
 c 1 s 33; 1983 c 216 art 1 s 87; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 362 s 25; 
 1987 c 385 s 27; 1989 c 209 art 2 s 1; 1994 c 488 s 8; 1996 c 
 417 s 31; 1997 c 7 art 1 s 106; 1997 c 66 s 79,80; 1998 c 265 s 
 43; 1999 c 107 s 61,66; 2000 c 343 s 4; 2001 c 175 s 52