§383-123 - Withdrawals; administrative use.
§383-123 Withdrawals; administrative use. (a) Withdrawals. Moneys requisitioned from the State's account in the unemployment trust fund shall be used exclusively for the payment of benefits and for refunds of contributions pursuant to section 383-76 and section [383-7(a)(6)], except that moneys credited to this State's account pursuant to section 903 of the Social Security Act, as amended, shall be used exclusively as provided in subsection (b). The director of finance shall from time to time, with the approval of the department of labor and industrial relations in accordance with rules prescribed by the comptroller of the State, requisition from the unemployment trust fund such amounts, not exceeding the amount in the State's account, as it deems necessary for the payment of benefits and refunds of contributions for a reasonable future period. The moneys shall be deposited in the benefit account. Expenditures of such moneys in the benefit account and refunds from the clearing account shall not be subject to any provisions of law requiring specific appropriations or other formal release by state officers of moneys in their custody. All benefits and refunds of contributions shall be paid from the fund upon warrants drawn upon the director of finance by the comptroller of the State supported by vouchers approved by the department. Any balance of moneys requisitioned from the unemployment trust fund which remains unclaimed or unpaid in the benefit account after the expiration of the period for which the sums were requisitioned shall either be deducted from estimates for, and may be utilized for the payment of, benefits and refunds during succeeding periods, or, in the discretion of the department, shall be redeposited with the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, to the credit of this State's account in the unemployment trust fund, as provided in section 383-122.
(b) Administrative use. Moneys credited to the account of this State in the unemployment trust fund by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States pursuant to section 903 of the Social Security Act, as amended, may be requisitioned and used for the payment of benefits and for the payment of expenses incurred for the administration of this State's unemployment compensation law and public employment offices pursuant to a specific appropriation of the legislature; provided that the expenses are incurred and the money is requisitioned after the enactment of an appropriation law that:
(1) Specifies the purposes for which the moneys are appropriated and the amounts appropriated therefor;
(2) Limits the period within which the moneys may be obligated to a period ending not more than two years after the date of the enactment of the appropriation law; and
(3) Limits the amount that may be obligated to an amount that does not exceed the amount by which the aggregate of the amounts credited to the account of this State pursuant to section 903 of the Social Security Act, as amended, exceeds the aggregate of the amounts obligated pursuant to this subsection and charged against the amounts credited to the account of this State.
Moneys credited to the account of this State pursuant to section 903 of the Social Security Act, as amended, may not be withdrawn or used except for the payment of benefits and for the payment of expenses for the administration of this chapter pursuant to this subsection.
The appropriation, obligation, and expenditure or other disposition of moneys appropriated under this subsection shall be accounted for in accordance with standards established by the United States Secretary of Labor. Moneys appropriated for the payment of expenses of administration pursuant to this subsection shall be requisitioned as needed for the payment of obligations incurred under the law appropriating the moneys and, upon requisition, shall be deposited in the employment security administration fund from which the payments shall be made. Moneys so deposited, until expended, shall remain a part of the unemployment compensation fund and, if not expended within one week after withdrawn from the unemployment trust fund, shall be returned at the earliest practical date to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States for credit to this State's account in the unemployment trust fund.
(c) Notwithstanding subsection (b), moneys credited to the State's account in federal fiscal years ending in 2000, 2001, and 2002 shall be used solely for the administration of the unemployment compensation program and are not subject to the specific appropriation requirements of subsection (b), except that moneys credited in calendar year 2002 with respect to P.L. 107-147 shall not be subject to the conditions of this subsection or the two‑year limitation requirement specified in subsection (b). [L 1939, c 219, §9(c); am L 1941, c 304, §1, subs 30; RL 1945, §4265; RL 1955, §93-122; am L 1957, c 145, §1(b) and c 152, §1; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §§14, 27; am L 1963, c 114, §1; am L 1966, c 5, §2; HRS §383-123; am L 1971, c 187, §12; am L 1973, c 4, §1; am L 1984, c 14, §1; am L 1987, c 119, §7; am L 2001, c 112, §1; am L 2005, c 249, §2; am L 2006, c 190, §§2, 3]