§ 68-3706. Saving Quality Jobs Premium Payment Fund.

There is hereby created within the State Treasury a special fund for the Oklahoma Tax Commission to be designated the "Saving Quality Jobs Premium Payment Fund".  The Oklahoma Tax Commission is hereby authorized and directed to withhold a portion of the taxes levied and collected pursuant to Section 2355 of Title 68 of the Oklahoma Statutes for deposit into the fund.  The amount deposited shall equal the sum of an amount determined by multiplying the premium net benefit rate provided by the Department of Commerce by the gross payroll of each establishment approved pursuant to Section 5 of this act.  All of the amounts deposited in such fund shall be used and expended by the Tax Commission solely for the purposes and in the amounts authorized by the Saving Quality Jobs Act.  Liability of the State of Oklahoma for payments made pursuant to the Saving Quality Jobs Act shall be limited to the balance contained in the fund created by this section and Section 9 of this act.  The total payments from the fund created by this section together with all payments from the High Impact Project Payment Fund created pursuant to Section 9 of this act shall not exceed Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($2,500,000.00) for any one fiscal year.

Added by Laws 1994, c. 322, § 6, emerg. eff. June 8, 1994.