State Insurance Commissioner Revolving Fund.

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A. Effective July 1, 2009, there is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund for the Insurance Commissioner called the State Insurance Commissioner Revolving Fund. The revolving fund shall be used to fund the operations of the Office of the Insurance Commissioner.

1. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the revolving fund shall consist of and consolidate all funds that are or have been paid or collected by the Insurance Commissioner pursuant to the laws of this state and the rules of the Insurance Department except that the revolving fund shall not include:

  • a.premium taxes,
  • b.monies transferred to the Attorney General's Insurance Fraud Unit Revolving Fund pursuant to Section 362 of this title,
  • c.funds paid to and collected pursuant to the Oklahoma Certified Real Estate Appraisers Act, Sections 858-700 through 858-732 of Title 59 of the Oklahoma Statutes,
  • d.health carrier access payments paid to and collected by the Insurance Commissioner and deposited into the Health Carrier Access Payment Revolving Fund,
  • e.recoveries obtained as a result of insurance-related crimes, and other fines, late fees, and penalties assessed and collected, and
  • f.monies collected for or received from the Workers' Compensation Commission.

2. The revolving fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations. Expenditures from the revolving fund shall be made pursuant to the laws of this state and the statutes relating to the Insurance Department. Warrants for expenditures from the revolving fund shall be drawn by the State Treasurer, based on claims signed by an authorized employee or employees of the Insurance Department and filed with the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services.

B. All funds collected by the Insurance Commissioner shall be paid into the State Treasury weekly.

C. After the effective date of this act, the State Treasury is authorized and directed to deduct from the funds paid or collected by the Insurance Commissioner a sum equal to seventy-six and one- half percent (76.5%) of the payment and place the same to the credit of the General Revenue Fund of the state. The State Treasurer shall place to the credit of the State Insurance Commissioner Revolving Fund the remainder of the funds so paid and collected by the Insurance Commissioner.

Added by Laws 2009, c. 432, § 1, eff. July 1, 2009. Amended by Laws 2010, c. 222, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2010; Laws 2010, c. 300, § 5; Laws 2011, c. 360, § 1; Laws 2012, c. 304, § 122; Laws 2014, c. 183, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2014.


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