A. The "Oklahoma Technology Trust Fund" is hereby created. The trust fund shall be administered as follows:
1. The trustees of the trust fund shall consist of seven members of the Oklahoma Science and Technology Research and Development Board who are the presidents of Oklahoma State University, the University of Oklahoma, and the private university offering graduate engineering degrees and the four chief executive officers or senior executive officers of corporations or foundations. The chair of the board of trustees shall be elected by the trustees from among the four chief executive officers or senior executive officers who also serve on the Oklahoma Science and Technology Research and Development Board.
2. After January 1, 2003, the board of trustees may by unanimous vote expand the number of trustees at any time. No more than three members added by the board of trustees may serve concurrently. The members added by the board of trustees shall be representatives of industries, shall have full voting rights, and shall serve four-year terms. A position added by the board of trustees may be filled at the end of the term by vote of the trustees. A position not filled by the trustees at the end of the term shall be considered abolished.
3. The trust fund principal shall consist of monies received from any monies the Legislature appropriates for, or transfers to, the trust fund and any monies or assets contributed to the trust fund from any other source, public or private. Notwithstanding other provisions of law, income and investment return on trust fund principal shall accrue to the trust fund and may be authorized upon a majority vote of the trustees for use and expenditure by the Oklahoma Science and Technology Research and Development Board. Use of the trust fund principal may be authorized upon a vote of three-fourths of the trustees for use and expenditure by the Oklahoma Science and Technology Research and Development Board.
4. The trustees shall develop procedures for accomplishing transfer of income and investment return to appropriate accounts set up in the Office of the State Treasurer.
5. The trust fund may be dissolved upon an act approved by three-fourths (3/4) of both houses of the Legislature or pursuant to a plan for use of the principal, leading to dissolution of the trust fund, over a ten-year period that has been proposed by the trustees and approved by the Legislature and the Governor. Upon the trust fund's dissolution, any funds in the trust fund shall be placed in the state general revenue fund, unless the Legislature specifically provides otherwise.
B. There is hereby created in the State Treasury a fund for the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology to be designated the "Oklahoma Technology Fund". The fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall consist of any monies received by the Center from the Legislature or other sources for the fund. All monies accruing to the credit of the fund are hereby appropriated and may be budgeted and expended by the Oklahoma Science and Technology Research and Development Board for the purposes of the Center. Expenditures from the fund shall be made upon warrants issued by the State Treasurer against claims filed as prescribed by law with the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services for approval and payment. The Oklahoma Science and Technology Research and Development Board shall develop procedures for setting up accounts within the fund as necessary in the Office of the State Treasurer. The Board shall place only funds appropriated for or otherwise received for the Center in the accounts for the Center and shall not commingle funds that are not appropriated or otherwise received for the Center with funds appropriated or received for any other purpose of the Center.
Added by Laws 2002, c. 484, § 12, eff. July 1, 2002. Amended by Laws 2012, c. 304, § 1039; Laws 2013, c. 227, § 46, eff. Nov. 1, 2013.