NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 875

HOUSE BILL 1118

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FEDERAL REED BILL FUNDS HELD IN THE NORTH CAROLINA UNEMPLOYMENT TRUST FUND TO THE NORTH CAROLINA EMPLOYMENT SECURITY COMMISSION TO BE UTILIZED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 903 OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT AND G.S. 96-5(e) OF THE GENERAL STATUTES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and pursuant to Section 903 of the Social Security Act and G.S. 96-5(e), there is hereby appropriated to the North Carolina Employment Security Commission the sum of two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000) from federal Reed Bill funds credited to and held in this State's account in the Unemployment Trust Fund by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. Said funds shall be utilized for the administration of the Employment Security Law, including personal services, operating and other expenses incurred in the administration of said law, as well as for the purchase or rental, either or both, of offices, lands, buildings or parts of buildings, fixtures, furnishings, equipment, supplies, and the construction of buildings or parts of buildings, suitable for use in this State by the Employment Security Commission, and for the payment of expenses incurred for the construction, maintenance, improvements or repair of, or alterations to, such real or personal property. Provided, that any such funds appropriated by the General Assembly shall not exceed the amount in the Unemployment Trust Fund which may be obligated for expenditure for such purposes; and provided that said funds shall not be obligated for expenditure, as herein provided, after the close of the two-year period which begins on the effective date of the appropriation. Provided, further, that such uses shall be approved by the Advisory Budget Commission.

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective on July 1, 1979.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of June, 1979.