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268.196 Economic security administration fund.

Subdivision 1. Administration fund. There is hereby created in the state treasury a special fund to be known as the economic security administration fund. All moneys which are deposited or paid into this fund shall be continuously available to the commissioner for expenditure in accordance with the provisions of sections 268.03 to 268.23, and shall not lapse at any time. The fund shall consist of all moneys received from the United States or any agency thereof, including the United States department of labor, and include any moneys received from any agency of the United States or any other state as compensation for services or facilities supplied to such agency, any amounts received pursuant to any surety bond or insurance policy or from other sources for losses sustained by the economic security administration fund or by reason of damage to equipment or supplies purchased from moneys in such fund, and any proceeds realized from the sale or disposition of any such equipment or supplies which may no longer be necessary for the proper administration of those sections. Notwithstanding any provision of this section, all money requisitioned and deposited in this fund pursuant to section 268.194, subdivision 5, shall remain part of the reemployment insurance fund and shall be used only in accordance with the conditions specified in section 268.194, subdivision 5. All moneys in this fund 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 funds in the state treasury. The state treasurer shall be liable on the treasurer's official bond for the faithful performance of duties in connection with the economic security administration fund provided for under these sections. Such liability on the official bond shall be effective immediately upon the enactment of this provision, and such liability shall exist in addition to any liability upon any separate bond existent on April 29, 1941, or which may be given in the future. All sums recovered on any surety bond for losses sustained by the economic security administration fund shall be deposited in this fund. All money in this fund, except money received pursuant to section 268.194, subdivision 5, clause (3), shall be expended solely for the purposes and in the amounts found necessary by the secretary of labor for the proper and efficient administration of the economic security program.

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, are found by the United States Secretary of Labor, because of any action or contingency, to have been lost or been expended for purposes other than, or in amounts in excess of, those found necessary by the secretary of labor for the proper administration of these sections, the commissioner may, with the approval of the commissioner of administration, 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. Upon receipt of a finding by the secretary of labor, the commissioner shall promptly report the amount required for replacement to the governor and the governor shall, at the earliest opportunity, submit to the legislature a request for the appropriation of that amount.

Subd. 3. Contingent account. There is hereby created in the state treasury a special account, to be known as the economic security contingent account, which shall not lapse nor revert to any other fund. Such 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 and 268.18, and all money received in the form of voluntary contributions to this account and interest thereon. All money in such account shall be supplemental to all federal money that would be available to the commissioner but for the existence of this account. Moneys in this account are hereby appropriated to the commissioner and shall be available to the commissioner for such expenditures as the commissioner may deem necessary in connection with the administration of sections 268.04 to 268.23. Whenever the commissioner expends money from said contingent account for the proper and efficient administration of the Minnesota Economic Security Law for which funds have not yet been made available by the federal government, such money so withdrawn from the contingent account shall be replaced as hereinafter provided. Upon the deposit in the economic security administration fund of moneys which are received in reimbursement of payments made as above provided for said contingent account, the commissioner shall certify to the state treasurer the amount of such reimbursement and thereupon the state treasurer shall transfer such amount from the economic security administration fund to said contingent account. 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. The state treasurer shall be liable on the treasurer's official bond for the faithful performance of duties in connection with the economic security contingent account provided for herein. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, on June 30 of each year, except 1982, all amounts in excess of $300,000 in this account shall be paid over to the reemployment insurance fund established under section 268.194 and administered in accordance with the provisions set forth therein.

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

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