123STA T .4 4 6PUBLIC LA W 111 –5—FE B.1 7, 2 0 0 9Unemploy men tI n sura n c e A ct , asa d ded b y subsect i on ( a ) , to remain a v ailable until e x pended .Subti t leB—As sist anc e forV ulnerable I n d i v iduals SEC.210 1.E M E RG E N C YFU N D F O R TA NF P ROGRAM. (a) TEMPORA R YFUND . — ( 1 )IN G ENERA L .— S ection 403 o f t h e Social Security Act (4 2 U.S. C . 6 03) is amended by addin g at the end the follo w ing
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‘(c) E MERGEN C Y FUND.— ‘‘(1) E ST A B L I S H MENT.—There is established in the Treasury of the United States a fund which shall be k nown as the ‘Emergency Contingency Fund for State Temporary Assistance for N eedy Families P rograms ’ (in this subsection referred to as the ‘Emergency Fund’). ‘‘(2) D EPOSITS INTO F UND.— ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.— O ut of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, there are appropriated for fiscal year 200 9 , $5 ,000,000,000 for payment to the Emergency Fund. ‘‘( B )A V AILABILITY AND USE OF FUNDS.—The amounts appropriated to the Emergency Fund under subparagraph (A) shall remain available through fiscal year 2010 and shall be used to make grants to States in each of fiscal years 2009 and 2010 in accordance with the re q uirements of paragraph (3). ‘‘(C) L IMITATION.—In no case may the Secretary make a grant from the Emergency Fund for a fiscal year after fiscal year 2010. ‘‘(3) G RANTS.— ‘‘(A) GRANT RELATED TO CASELOAD INCREASES.— ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—For each calendar quarter in fiscal year 2009 or 2010, the Secretary shall make a grant from the Emergency Fund to each State that— ‘‘(I) requests a grant under this subparagraph for the quarter
and ‘‘(II) meets the requirement of clause (ii) for the quarter. ‘‘(ii) CASELOAD INCREASE RE Q UIREMENT.—A State meets the requirement of this clause for a quarter if the average monthly assistance caseload of the State for the quarter exceeds the average monthly assistance caseload of the State for the corresponding quarter in the emergency fund base year of the State. ‘‘(iii) AMOUNT OF GRANT.—Sub j ect to paragraph (5), the amount of the grant to be made to a State under this subparagraph for a quarter shall be an amount equal to 8 0 percent of the amount (if any) by which the total expenditures of the State for basic assistance (as defined by the Secretary) in the quarter, whether under the State program funded under this part or as qualified State expenditures, exceeds the total expenditures of the State for such assistance for the corresponding quarter in the emergency fund base year of the State.
