§ 19-7-503 - Additional procedures and limitations. - Arkansas Statutes

19-7-503. Additional procedures and limitations.

In addition to the limitations and procedures established in 19-7-502, the following additional procedures and limitations shall be held in strict compliance:

(1) All new or additional federal or Arkansas Workforce Investment Act, 15-4-2201 et seq., or its successor's, funds expended by the benefiting agency under the authority of any appropriation provided by the General Assembly for such purposes and transferred through the provisions and procedures established in this section shall be deposited into, and expended from, the State Treasury;

(2) Appropriations authorized by the General Assembly for such purpose and transferred pursuant to the procedures set out in this section shall be strictly used for the expenditure of the Arkansas Workforce Investment Act, 15-4-2201 et seq., or its successor's, grant-in-aid moneys or other federal grant-in-aid moneys received, reimbursements from the federal government, and local or private funds designated as matching funds for these federal projects. These amounts are to be deposited into the State Treasury for the benefit of the State of Arkansas, or any of its agencies, for use in emergency relief needs or for the operation of any Arkansas Workforce Investment Act, 15-4-2201 et seq., or its successor's, programs or any other programs approved by the federal government for which no appropriations or insufficient appropriations were provided elsewhere for such purposes;

(3) Additional positions authorized under 19-7-502 must be paid from the Arkansas Workforce Investment Act, 15-4-2201 et seq., or its successor's, funds deposited into the State Treasury for that specific Arkansas Workforce Investment Act, 15-4-2201 et seq., or its successor's, program as may be authorized through the provisions of this subchapter or from federal, local, or private funds deposited into the State Treasury for that specific federal program as may be authorized through the provisions of this subchapter. However, general, special, trust, or miscellaneous state funds may not be used for the purpose of paying salaries of the positions so authorized;

(4) The Chief Fiscal Officer of the State is authorized to promulgate such rules, regulations, procedures, and guidelines as he or she may deem necessary and proper in order to carry out the provisions of this subchapter;

(5) The provisions of 19-4-1807 and 19-4-1901, or their successors, which establish the federal grants, aid, and reimbursements procedures and federal funds procedures of the General Accounting and Budgetary Procedures Law, 19-4-101 et seq., shall be strictly complied with;

(6) Unless provided elsewhere, all federal funds received by state agencies, departments, boards, and commissions benefiting from the establishment of the biennial operations appropriation acts authorized by the General Assembly for new federal or Arkansas Workforce Investment Act, 15-4-2201 et seq., or its successor's, programs shall be deposited into the State Treasury, except when such deposit is expressly prohibited, in writing, as a condition for approval of the grant or reimbursement by the federal grant or agency; and

(7) No appropriation as authorized by the General Assembly for new federal or Arkansas Workforce Investment Act, 15-4-2201 et seq., or its successor's, programs which the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State transfers or causes to be transferred to the various agencies may be utilized for entering into or making payments for personal service contracts.