Sec. 6b.
(1) The $19,450,000.00 appropriated for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1990 from the penalty and interest account in the contingent fund shall be expended for continuing work on the unemployment insurance computer system improvement and capacity expansion project. One million dollars of this amount shall be used for staff training in use of the improved computer system.
(2) The commission shall appoint a computer project oversight committee of not to exceed 15 members. The committee shall be composed of computer system specialists and unemployment insurance specialists from the private sector and employees of the commission who are involved in the project. The committee, on a quarterly basis, shall review commission staff reports on the status of the project and shall provide a short written summary report on the review, including their comments, to the commission, the department of management and budget, and the senate and house of representatives labor committees and appropriations subcommittees on regulatory. The committee shall serve in an advisory capacity to the commission regarding the project upon request.
(3) Any funds from the appropriations described in subsection (1) that are not expended within 3 years after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section shall revert to the penalty and interest account in the contingent fund.
(4) The appropriation described in this section and made by law shall be considered a work project and shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal year but shall continue to be available for expenditure until the project is completed.
History: Add. 1989, Act 238, Imd. Eff. Dec. 21, 1989