IC 22-4-25
    Chapter 25. Special Employment and Training Services Fund(Unemployment Trust Fund)

IC 22-4-25-1
Creation; use of funds
    Sec. 1. (a) There is created in the state treasury a special fund tobe known as the special employment and training services fund. Allinterest on delinquent contributions and penalties collected under thisarticle, together with any voluntary contributions tendered as acontribution to this fund, shall be paid into this fund. The moneyshall not be expended or available for expenditure in any mannerwhich would permit their substitution for (or a correspondingreduction in) federal funds which would in the absence of saidmoney be available to finance expenditures for the administration ofthis article, but nothing in this section shall prevent said money frombeing used as a revolving fund to cover expenditures necessary andproper under the law for which federal funds have been dulyrequested but not yet received, subject to the charging of suchexpenditures against such funds when received. The money in thisfund shall be used by the board for the payment of refunds of intereston delinquent contributions and penalties so collected, for thepayment of costs of administration which are found not to have beenproperly and validly chargeable against federal grants or other fundsreceived for or in the employment and training servicesadministration fund, on and after July 1, 1945. Such money shall beavailable either to satisfy the obligations incurred by the boarddirectly, or by transfer by the board of the required amount from thespecial employment and training services fund to the employmentand training services administration fund. The board shall order thetransfer of such funds or the payment of any such obligation orexpenditure and such funds shall be paid by the treasurer of state onrequisition drawn by the board directing the auditor of state to issuethe auditor's warrant therefor. Any such warrant shall be drawn bythe state auditor based upon vouchers certified by the board or thecommissioner. The money in this fund is hereby specifically madeavailable to replace within a reasonable time any money received bythis state pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 502, as amended, which, because ofany action or contingency, has been lost or has been expended forpurposes other than or in amounts in excess of those approved by thebureau of employment security. The money in this fund shall becontinuously available to the board for expenditures in accordancewith the provisions of this section and shall not lapse at any time orbe transferred to any other fund, except as provided in this article.Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit, alter, or amend theliability of the state assumed and created by IC 22-4-28, or to changethe procedure prescribed in IC 22-4-28 for the satisfaction of suchliability, except to the extent that such liability may be satisfied byand out of the funds of such special employment and trainingservices fund created by this section.    (b) Whenever the balance in the special employment and trainingservices fund exceeds eight million five hundred thousand dollars($8,500,000), the board shall order payment of the amount thatexceeds eight million five hundred thousand dollars ($8,500,000)into the unemployment insurance benefit fund.
    (c) Subject to the approval of the board and the availability offunds, on July 1, 2008, and each subsequent July 1, the commissionershall release:
        (1) one million dollars ($1,000,000) to the state educationalinstitution established under IC 21-25-2-1 for training providedto participants in apprenticeship programs approved by theUnited States Department of Labor, Bureau of Apprenticeshipand Training;
        (2) four million dollars ($4,000,000) to the state educationalinstitution instituted and incorporated under IC 21-22-2-1 fortraining provided to participants in joint labor and managementapprenticeship programs approved by the United StatesDepartment of Labor, Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training;
        (3) two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) forjourneyman upgrade training to each of the state educationalinstitutions described in subdivisions (1) and (2);
        (4) four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) annually fortraining and counseling assistance:
            (A) provided by Hometown Plans under 41 CFR 60-4.5; and
            (B) approved by the United States Department of Labor,Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training;
        to individuals who have been unemployed for at least four (4)weeks or whose annual income is less than twenty thousanddollars ($20,000); and
        (5) three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) annually fortraining and counseling assistance provided by the stateinstitution established under IC 21-25-2-1 to individuals whohave been unemployed for at least four (4) weeks or whoseannual income is less than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000)for the purpose of enabling those individuals to apply foradmission to apprenticeship programs offered by providersapproved by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau ofApprenticeship and Training.
    (d) The funds released under subsection (c)(4) through (c)(5):
        (1) shall be considered part of the amount allocated undersection 2.5 of this chapter; and
        (2) do not limit the amount that an entity may receive undersection 2.5 of this chapter.
    (e) Each state educational institution described in subsection (c)is entitled to keep ten percent (10%) of the funds released undersubsection (c) for the payment of costs of administering the funds.On each June 30 following the release of the funds, any fundsreleased under subsection (c) not used by the state educationalinstitutions under subsection (c) shall be returned to the specialemployment and training services fund.(Formerly: Acts 1947, c.208, s.2601; Acts 1955, c.317, s.12; Acts1963, c.373, s.1; Acts 1967, c.310, s.22.) As amended byP.L.144-1986, SEC.122; P.L.18-1987, SEC.67; P.L.105-1994,SEC.3; P.L.21-1995, SEC.105; P.L.163-1997, SEC.1; P.L.52-1998,SEC.1; P.L.179-1999, SEC.4; P.L.290-2001, SEC.20; P.L.273-2003,SEC.7; P.L.202-2005, SEC.5; P.L.47-2006, SEC.46; P.L.2-2007,SEC.293; P.L.138-2008, SEC.4; P.L.175-2009, SEC.36;P.L.182-2009(ss), SEC.368.

IC 22-4-25-2
Remployment training accounts for department employees
    Sec. 2. (a) As used in this section, "fund" refers to the specialemployment and training services fund created under section 1 ofthis chapter.
    (b) The commissioner may allocate an amount not to exceed twomillion dollars ($2,000,000) annually from the fund to establishreemployment training accounts to provide training andreemployment services to department employees dislocated by:
        (1) a reduction of funding for;
        (2) a centralization or decentralization of; or
        (3) the implementation of a more efficient technology or servicedelivery method in connection with;
the programs and services provided under this article.
As added by P.L.108-2006, SEC.46.

IC 22-4-25-2.5
Allocation for apprenticeship training for construction trades
    Sec. 2.5. (a) In support of IC 8-14-14, IC 8-15-2, IC 8-15-3, andIC 8-15.5, the commissioner shall allocate an amount not to exceedtwo million dollars ($2,000,000) annually for pre-apprenticeship andapprenticeship training and counseling assistance relating to theconstruction trades for individuals who:
        (1) are not otherwise eligible for training and counselingassistance under any other program; and
        (2) are not participating in programs that duplicate thoseprograms described in section 1(e) of this chapter.
Priority shall be granted to training or counseling persons who aremembers of a minority group (as defined by IC 4-13-16.5-1). Thetraining and counseling assistance programs funded by this sectionmust be approved by the department.
    (b) This section expires December 31, 2012.
As added by P.L.47-2006, SEC.47.