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PUBLIC LAW 567-AUG. 5, 1954

" (A) the purposes and amounts were specified in the law making the appropriation, " (B) the appropriation law did not authorize the expenditure of such money after the close of the two-year period which began on the date of enactment of the appropriation law, " (C) the money is withdrawn and the expenses are incurred after such date of enactment, and " (D) the appropriation law limits the total amount which may be so used during a fiscal year to an amount which does not exceed the amount by which (i) the aggregate of the amounts credited to the account of such State pursuant to subsection (a) during such fiscal year and the four preceding fiscal years, exceeds (ii) the aggregate of the amounts used by the State pursuant to this paragraph and charged against the amounts credited to the account of such State during any of such five fiscal years. For the purposes of subparagraph (D), amounts used by a State during any nscal year shall be charged against equivalent amounts which were first credited and which have not previously been so charged; except that no amount used during any fiscal year may be charged against any amount credited during a fiscal year earlier than the fourth preceding fiscal year." SEC. 3. Title X II of the Social Security Act is hereby amended to read as follows: " TITLE X II — A D V A N C E S TO S T A T E UNEMPLOYMENT FUNDS " SEC. 1201. (a) If— " (1) the balance in the unemployment fund of a State in the Unemployment Trust Fund at the close of September 30, 1953, or at the close of the last day in any ensuing calendar quarter, is less than the total compensation paid out under the unemployment compensation law of such State during the twelve-month period ending at the close of such day; "(2) the Governor of such State applies to the Secretary of Labor during the calendar quarter following such day for an advance under this subsection; and "(3) the Secretary of Labor finds that the conditions specified in paragraphs (1) and (2) have been met, the Secretary of Labor shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury such amounts as may be specified in the application of the Governor, but the aggregate of the amounts so certified pursuant to any such application shall not exceed the highest total compensation paid out under the unemployment compensation law of such State during any one of the four calendar quarters preceding the quarter in which such application was made. For the purposes of this subsection, (A) the application shall be made on such forms, and shall contain such information and data (fiscal and otherwise) concerning the operation and administration of the State unemployment compensation law, as the Secretary of Labor deems necessary or relevant to the performance of his duties under this title, and (B) the term 'compensation' means cash benefits payable to individuals with respect to their unemployment, exclusive of expenses of administration. "(b) The Secretary of the Treasury shall, prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, transfer from the Federal unemployment account to the account of any State in the Unemployment Trust Fund the amounts certified under subsection (a) by the Secretary of Labor (but not exceeding that portion of the balance in the Federal unemployment account at the time of such transfer which is not restricted as to use pursuant to section 1)03 (b)). Any amount

58 Stat. 790. 42 USC 1321.

El i g i b i 1 i ty requirements.

Certification.

Application.

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Ante, p. 670.

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