§ 27-3-607 — Cooperation by department with federal, state and local agencies; disclosure and submission of specified information; limitations

(a) The department shall:
(i) Cooperate with and report to the federal
government pursuant to requirements of 42 U.S.C. § 902 et seq.
and comply with federal regulations governing expenditures of
funds paid to the state under 42 U.S.C. § 501 et seq.;
(ii) Furnish upon request of any federal agency
administering public works programs or public employment
assistance, the name, address, ordinary occupation and
employment status of benefit recipients and their right to
future benefits under this act;
(iii) Upon request, pursuant to contract and on a
reimbursable basis, of any state or political subdivision,
furnish wage information obtained pursuant to this act
determined necessary by regulation of the United States health
and human services department for determining eligibility or
assistance under 42 U.S.C. § 601 et seq.;
(iv) Upon request, pursuant to contract and on a
reimbursable basis, disclose to officers or employees of any
state or local child support enforcement agency operating
pursuant to a plan described under 42 U.S.C. § 654 or to the
federal parent locater service, any wage or unemployment
compensation claim information obtained under this act for an
identified individual;
(v) Upon request, pursuant to contract and on a
reimbursable basis, disclose to officers and employees of the
United States department of agriculture and any state
supplemental nutrition assistance program agency defined under 7
U.S.C. § 2012(n)(1), any wage information obtained under this
act for an identified individual, any record of application for
or receipt of benefits and the amount received, his most recent
home address and any refusal of an offer of employment and a
description of this employment;
(vi) Upon request, pursuant to contract and on a
reimbursable basis, provide unemployment insurance benefit and
wage information to the department of housing and urban
development and to other public housing agencies. Such
information shall be provided as required by the McKinney
Homeless Act of 1988, section 904(c) and in a manner as
prescribed by the secretary of labor;
(vii) Disclose information contained in its records
to the United States secretary of health and human services or
his designee, as necessary for the purposes of the national
directory of new hires established under section 453 of the
Social Security Act. The requesting agency shall reimburse the
department for the cost of furnishing this information. The
department shall work in conjunction with other states to ensure
that adequate safeguards exist at the federal level so that
state information being provided under this section is not
disclosed for any purpose, except as authorized by law;
(viii) Upon request, pursuant to contract and on a
reimbursable basis, disclose and furnish copies of records
relating to the administration of this act to the railroad
retirement board;
(ix) Require any recipient of information disclosed
under this subsection to comply with any safeguards necessary
and specified in federal law to ensure that the information
furnished shall be used only for the purposes authorized.
(b) A requesting agency shall agree that information
obtained under paragraph (a)(iv) of this section be used only
for establishing and collecting child support obligations from
and locating individuals owing obligations enforced pursuant to
a plan described under 42 U.S.C. § 654, and that information
obtained under paragraph (a)(v) of this section be used only for
determining the applicant's eligibility for benefits or the
amount of benefits under the supplemental nutrition assistance
program. The agency shall also reimburse the department for the
cost of furnishing this information. Requirements for
confidentiality of information under this act and the penalties
for improper disclosure apply to the use of this information by
officers and employees of any child support or supplemental
nutrition assistance program agency and the United States
department of agriculture.
(c) The department may, on a reimbursable basis unless
otherwise provided:
(i) Repealed By Laws 2005, ch. 186, § 3.
(ii) Notwithstanding W.S. 27-3-603 and subject to
regulations of the commission and pursuant to contract, disclose
necessary information obtained from any employing unit or
individual under this act and any determination of benefit
rights to any state or federal agency administering
Wagner-Peyser Act or federal Workforce Innovation and
Opportunity Act or subsequent similar enactments training
services;
(iii) Repealed By Laws 2005, ch. 186, § 3.
(iv) Cooperate with any federal agency administering
any unemployment compensation law;
(v) Allow access to information obtained pursuant to
the administration of this act to the division of criminal
investigation of the attorney general's office, upon a written
request by the director which demonstrates there is a reasonable
basis to believe the health or safety of a person is in danger
and the information may lead to the elimination of that danger;
(vi) Allow the state auditor's office and the
division of worker's compensation access to certain information
obtained under this act limited to the name, address, social
security identification number and other general information
pertaining to benefit entitlement and employers. Disclosure of
information under this paragraph is for purposes of comparing
information of the department with that of a requesting state
agency for the detection of improper or fraudulent claims or the
determination of potential tax liability, for employer
compliance with notification, registration, certification or
qualification requirements or for the collection of amounts owed
the department;
(vii) Upon request, disclose information not
otherwise restricted by law or contract to the bureau of labor
statistics;
(viii) Upon written request, disclose any information
obtained under this act to director or agency head, or his
designee or agent, in the executive branch of federal or state
government to be used by the public official only for official
business in connection with the administration of a law or in
the enforcement of a law by that public official. The
requesting agency shall reimburse the department for the cost of
furnishing this information unless the cost is insignificant;
(ix) Inform a project owner or contractor if his
prime contractor or any subcontractor has notified the
department and whether or not the prime contractor or any
subcontractor is in compliance with this act;
(x) Pursuant to contract, disclose wage information
on a nonreimbursable basis to the social security administration
utilizing the unemployment insurance interstate inquiry system;
(xi) Require any recipient of information disclosed
under this subsection to comply with any safeguards necessary as
specified in federal regulation to ensure that the information
furnished shall be used only for the purposes authorized;
(xii) Notwithstanding W.S. 27-3-603 and subject to
regulations of the commission, disclose necessary information
obtained from any employing unit or individual under this act
and any determination of benefit rights to any state or federal
agency administering unemployment compensation laws or federal
tax laws and to the office of the United States bankruptcy
trustee.
(d) The department may conduct and publish statistical
analysis of payroll and employment of state agencies in the
executive branch and of school districts, which may reveal the
identity of state agency and school district employing units.