Pub. L. 94-274, tit. I, sec. 101

Sec. 101. (a) For the purposes of sections 222(d)(1), 421, 506(d), 516, 705, 901 (e)(2) and (f), 902, 905(b)(2), 1108, 1115, and 2002 (a)(2) of the Social Security Act, the term “fiscal year” includes the period of July 1, 1976, through September 30, 1976, and the exercise of authority pursuant to these provisions for that period shall be subject to the conditions stated in the following paragraphs: (1) notwithstanding the provisions of section 222(d)(1) (42 U.S.C. 422(d)(1)), the amount authorized to be transferred from the trust funds pursuant to that section in the period beginning July 1, 1976, and ending September 30, 1976, may not exceed 1.5 per centum of the total of the benefits certified for payment in the first quarter of the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1975, and the amount authorized to be transferred from the Trust Funds in the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1976, may not exceed 1.5 per centum of the total of the benefits certified for payment in the preceding twelve months; (2) the fixed dollar allotment to each State tinder section 421 (42 U.S.C. 621) shall be $17,500; (3) the reduction required by section 506(d) (42 U.S.C. 706 (d)) shall be the amount by which the sum expended from non-Federal sources for that period is Jess than one-fourth the sum expended from such sources for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968; (4) the amount allotted to each State under section 516 (42 U.S.C. 716) shall be the excess of one-fourth the amount of the allotment for the State under sections 503 and 504 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 703 and 704), for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, plus the amount of any grants to the State under sections 508, 509, and 510 of that Act (42 U.S.C. 708, 709, and 710), over the amount of the allotment of the State under sections 503 and 504 of that Act for the period: (5) the limitation imposed by section 705(b) (42 U.S.C. 906 (b)) on the amount that may be available for carrying out section 705(f) shall be $500,000 for that period; (6) the percentage referenced in the second sentence of section 901(e)(2) (42 U.S.C. 1101(e)(2)) shall be reduced to 10 per centum for the purpose of advances to be made in that period; (7) notwithstanding the provisions of section 901(f)(3)(A) (42 U.S.C. 1101(f)(3)(A)), for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1976, the excess in the employment administration account shall be retained until the amount in such account is equal to 16090 STAT. 384 per centum of the amount of the total appropriation by the Congress out of the account for the period July 1, 1376, through September 30, 1976, and $37,500,000 or three thirty-seconds of the amount in the employment security administration account, whichever is the lesser, is authorized to be made available for that period under the conditions provided therein; (8) the determinative calendar year for the purpose of a transfer to the unemployment account pursuant to section 902(a) (42 U.S.C. 1102(a)), at the beginning of the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1976, shall be calendar year 1975; (9) the determinative calendar year for the purposes of a transfer to the extended unemployment compensation account pursuant to section 905(b)(2)(H) (42 U.S.C. 1105(b)(2)(B)), at the beginning of the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1976, shall be calendar year 1975; (10) the limitations imposed by section 1108 ( 42 U.S.C. 1308) on amounts certified by the Secretary shall lie one-fourth of the limitations imposed by that section with respect to the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976; (11) the dollar limitation imposed by section 1115 (42 U.S.C. 1315) on the amount available for payments to the States for the cost of projects under that section shall be $1,000,000 of the aggregate amount appropriated for payments to the States for the period: end (12) notwithstanding the provisions of subparagraph (A) of section 2002(a)(2) (42 U.S.C. 1397a(a)(2)), the limitation imposed by that, subparagraph on payments with respect to expenditures by a State for the period shall be one-fourth of the limitation imposed on such payments with respect to expenditures by the State for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1975; and notwithstanding the provisions of subparagraph (D) of section 2002(a)(2), the maximum allotments under that subparagraph for the period shall be $3,750,000 for Puerto Rico, $125,000 for Guam, and $125,000 for the Virgin Islands, but nothing in this Act shall apply to the second sentence of section 2002(a)(2)(A). (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 503 and 504 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 703 and 704), the fixed dollar allotment to each State under each of these sections for the period of July 1, 1976, through September 30, 1976, shall be $17,500. (c) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 1101(a)(8)(B) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1301(a)(8)(B)), the Federal percentages promulgated under that subparagraph in 1974 shall be conclusive for each of the nine quarters in the period beginning on July 1, 1975, and ending on September 30, 1977. (d) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 2006(c) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1397e(c)), the report on the operation of the program established by title XX of that Act during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, shall include the operation of that program during the period of July 1, 1976, through September 30, 1976, and shall be submitted to the Congress prior to April 1, 1977.