Volume 50 · 754
Public Law 75–755
To make available to each State which enacted in 1937 an approved unemployment-compensation law a portion of the proceeds from the Federal employers’ tax in such State for the year 1936.
Approved August 24, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To make available to each State which enacted in 1937 an approved unemployment-compensation law a portion of the proceeds from the Federal employers’ tax in such State for the year 1936.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for payment to the unemployment fund of each State or Territory which was not certified by the Social Security Board under section 903 of the Social Security Act on December 31, 1936, but which enacted in the year 1937 an unemployment-compensation law approved by the Social Security Board under such section, an amount equal to 90 per centum of the proceeds of the tax paid on or before January 31, 1938, with respect to employment in such State or Territory during the calendar year 1936 under title IX of such Act. Out of the sums appropriated therefor, the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay such amount, through the Division of Disbursement of the Treasury Department, to each such
Meaning of terms.
State unemployment fund. The terms used in this Act shall have the same meaning as identical terms in title IX of the Social Security Act.
Approved, August 24, 1937.