A. The Imagination Library Revolving Fund created pursuant to Section 2 of this act shall be used to promote and foster the development of the Oklahoma Imagination Library Program, which shall be a statewide program for encouraging pre-school children to read by providing age-appropriate books to children at their homes from birth to age five (5) on a monthly basis.
B. Contingent upon funds appropriated to the Imagination Library Revolving Fund created pursuant to Section 2 of this act, the State Department of Education shall:
1. Manage the daily operations of the Oklahoma Imagination Library Program and provide oversight of the Imagination Library Revolving Fund including but not limited to establishing county-based programs in all seventy-seven counties and advancing and strengthening the programs to ensure enrollment growth;
2. Develop, promote and coordinate a public awareness program to make donors aware of the opportunity to donate to the Imagination Library Revolving Fund; and
3. Develop, promote and coordinate a public awareness program to make the public aware of the opportunity to register children to receive age-appropriate books on a monthly basis. To receive books on a monthly basis, a child shall be under the age of five (5) and shall have an Oklahoma residence.
C. The State Department of Education may establish a volunteer advisory committee to assist with implementing the provisions of paragraphs 2 and 3 of subsection B of this section.
D. The State Department of Education is authorized to retain up to ten percent (10%) of the funds appropriated, gifted, granted, donated or bequested to the Imagination Library Revolving Fund for administrative and operating expenses related to implementation of the Oklahoma Imagination Library Program.
E. The Oklahoma Imagination Library Program shall be funded by fifty percent (50%) private funds and fifty percent (50%) appropriated funds. The State Department of Education shall include in its annual budget request the estimated need to fund the Oklahoma Imagination Library Program for the following fiscal year.
F. The State Department of Education shall submit a report by July 1, 2021, and each July 1 thereafter to the chair of the Senate Education Committee and the chair of the House of Representatives Common Education Committee detailing the status of implementing the Oklahoma Imagination Library Program.
Added by Laws 2020, c. 152, § 1.