Ark. Code § 19-5-702

Current with legislation from 2024 Fiscal and Special Sessions.

Section 19-5-702 - Definitions

As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "Contribution" means a percentage of payroll expenditures paid to the Unemployment Compensation Revolving Fund by a state agency in order to provide current and timely reimbursements of benefits paid by the Division of Workforce Services Law, § 11-10-101 et seq., for unemployment benefits charged to the agency;

(2) "Experience rate" means the process of adjustment in a future period of the contribution rate of an agency based on the difference of the amounts paid to the revolving fund for a fiscal year compared to the amounts of unemployment benefits charged to the agency for a fiscal year in order to recover deficits and refund surpluses;

(3) "Payroll" means the gross total amount expended for a payroll period for regular salaries, extra help, and authorized overtime payments; and

(4) "State agency" means any state agency, board, commission, department, institution, college, university, and community junior college receiving an appropriation for regular salaries, extra help, and authorized overtime payable from funds deposited into the State Treasury or depositories other than the State Treasury by the General Assembly.

Ark. Code § 19-5-702

Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 480, eff. 7/1/2019.

Acts 1977, No. 608, § 2; A.S.A. 1947, § 13-554.1.