R.I. Gen. Laws § 28-39-34: Appropriations for administration.

The general assembly shall annually appropriate a sum sufficient for the payment of expenses of administering chapters 39 — 41 of this title during each fiscal year, which sum shall be payable out of the temporary disability insurance reserve fund; provided, that those sums shall be available to the director for the payment of expenses of administration of those chapters only to the extent that moneys received from the federal government are not available for that purpose as provided in § 28-39-33.