§23-2C-6. Creation of new fund, old fund, mutualization transition
fund, uninsured employer fund, self-insured employer
guaranty risk pool, self-insured employer security
risk pool, private carrier guaranty fund, and
assigned risk fund.
(a) Effective upon the date upon which this enactment is made
effective by the Legislature, there is hereby created in the State
Treasury a "Workers' Compensation Old Fund", "Workers' Compensation
New Fund", "Mutualization Transition Fund", "Workers' Compensation
Uninsured Employers' Fund", "Self-insured Employer Guaranty Risk
Pool", "Self-insured Employer Security Risk Pool", "Private Carrier
Guaranty Fund" and an "Assigned Risk Fund". The Executive Director
of the Workers' Compensation Commission shall have full authority
to administer the old fund, the new fund, the mutualization
transition fund, the uninsured employers' fund, the self-insured
employer guaranty risk pool, the self-insured employer security
risk pool and the private carrier guaranty fund until termination
of the commission. As soon as practicable upon the establishment
of the mutualization transition fund, the executive director shall
cause thirty-five million dollars to be transferred from the
Workers' Compensation Fund into the mutualization transition fund.
All unencumbered funds remaining in the mutualization transition
fund as of termination of the commission shall be transferred into
the private carrier guaranty fund or, if the proclamation set forth
in this article has not been issued, back to the Workers' Compensation Fund. Expenditures from the funds established by this
section shall be upon appropriation of the Legislature except that
during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, two
thousand five, expenditures from the mutualization transition fund
up to amounts expended for the purposes of this article are
authorized rather than pursuant to an appropriation by the
Legislature.
(b) If the proclamation set forth in this article is issued,
then upon termination of the commission, the funds contained in the
Workers' Compensation Fund shall be disbursed as follows: (1) A
minimum of three hundred million dollars into the Workers'
Compensation Old Fund, the exact amount of which shall be set forth
in the Governor's proclamation provided in this article; (2) five
million dollars into the uninsured employers' fund; and (3) the
remainder into the new fund. Additionally, the funds contained in
the guaranty pool provided in 85 CSR §19 (2004) shall be
transferred into the self-insured employer guaranty risk pool
created in this article.