SUBPART B. EMPLOYMENT SECURITY

ADMINISTRATION FUND

§1511. Creation of fund

A. There is created in the state treasury a special fund to be known as the Employment Security Administration Fund. All monies which are deposited or paid into this fund are appropriated and made available to the administrator. All monies in this fund shall be expended solely for the purpose of defraying the cost of the administration of this Chapter and all monies received from the United States Department of Labor for the fund, except monies received pursuant to R.S. 23:1493(2) and (3) shall be expended solely for the purposes and in the amounts found necessary by the United States Department of Labor for the proper and efficient administration of this Chapter. The fund shall also consist of all monies appropriated by this state, and all monies received from the United States of America, or any agency thereof, including the United States Department of Labor, or from any other source, for such purpose. Monies received from the railroad retirement board as compensation for services or facilities supplied to said board shall be paid into this fund. The administrator shall annually report and give an accounting to the Senate Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations and the House of Representatives Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations for any expenditures made from this account under the provisions of this Section. Notwithstanding any provision of this Section, all monies requisitioned and deposited in this fund pursuant to R.S. 23:1493(2) and (3) shall remain part of the Unemployment Compensation Fund and shall be used only in accordance with the conditions specified in R.S. 23:1493. All monies in this fund shall be deposited, administered, and disbursed in the same manner and under the same conditions and requirements as is provided by law for other special funds in the state treasury, except that monies in this fund shall not be commingled with other state funds, but they shall be maintained in a separate account on the books of the depository. The state treasurer shall, in accordance with law, require collateral security from the depository bank in the full amount of all employment security administration funds on deposit, and said depository bank is authorized to pledge such collateral security. The collateral security shall be kept separate and distinct at all times from any collateral taken by the state treasury for other state funds. Such collateral security shall be pledged at an amount not to exceed face value. Any balances in this fund shall not lapse at any time, but shall be continuously available to the administrator for expenditure consistent with this Chapter.

B. The state treasurer shall be liable on his official bond for the faithful performance of his duties in connection with the Employment Security Administration Fund. Such liability shall be effective immediately upon the enactment of this provision, and such liability shall exist in addition to the liability upon any separate bond existent on the effective date of this provision, or which may be given in the future. All sums recovered on the general official bond for any losses sustained by the Employment Security Administration Fund shall be deposited in said fund, as well as all sums recovered on any special bonds conditioned on the treasurer's faithful performance of his duties under the employment security law for any losses sustained by the employment security administration fund.

C. The employment security administration fund shall also consist of monies credited to the account of this state in the unemployment trust fund pursuant to Section 903 of the Social Security Act, as amended.* Such monies shall be appropriated, requisitioned, deposited in this fund, administered, used, expended, obligated, and returned as provided in R.S. 23:1493. Such monies shall be secured as provided in R.S. 23:1511(1). All monies in this fund shall be maintained in a separate account on the books of the depository.

D. The administrator, with the approval of the governor and the Advisory Council, is hereby authorized on behalf of the state and the Louisiana Workforce Commission to acquire land and enter into acts of dedication, purchase and lease-purchase agreements therefor in the name of the Louisiana Workforce Commission, to make improvement of the land, to construct thereon a state central administrative office building or area office buildings when deemed necessary solely for the Louisiana Workforce Commission, to purchase and provide for necessary fixtures, equipment, parking facilities and other appurtenances for the buildings. All cost of land, fees, improvements, construction, fixtures, equipment, parking areas, facilities and appurtenances for the buildings shall be paid as costs of administration of this Chapter from the special monies provided pursuant to Section 903 of the Social Security Act, as amended, in accordance with R.S. 23:1493 and in accordance with this Section.

E. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section, monies deposited in the penalty and interest account of this fund shall be dedicated, pledged, and expended only in accordance with the provisions specified in R.S. 23:1513, regardless of the date such monies are expended.

F. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section, monies deposited in the Reed Act account of this fund shall be dedicated, pledged, and expended only in accordance with the provisions of Section 903 of the Social Security Act, 42 USC 1103, as amended, and R.S. 23:1493, regardless of the date such monies are expended.

G. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section, monies deposited in the Louisiana Workforce Commission administration account of this fund shall be expended in accordance with the provisions of R.S. 23:1513.2 and 1532.1(C)(5).

Amended by Acts 1959, No. 4, §3; Acts 1968, No. 42, §2; Acts 1969, No. 89, §2; Acts 1992, No. 447, §1, eff. June 20, 1992; Acts 1997, No. 1053, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1998; Acts 1997, No. 1114, §1, eff. July 14, 1997; Acts 2008, No. 743, §7, eff. July 1, 2008.

*42 U.S.C.A. §1103.