Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-1-2523: Oklahoma Institute for Disaster and Emergency Medicine

Revolving Fund.

There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund

for the State Department of Health, to be designated the "Oklahoma

Institute for Disaster and Emergency Medicine Revolving Fund". The

fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year

limitations, and shall consist of all monies received by the State

Department of Health from state appropriations for such fund. All

monies accruing to the credit of said fund are hereby appropriated

and may be budgeted and expended by the State Department of Health

as follows:

The State Department of Health is authorized to develop and

support the Oklahoma Institute for Disaster and Emergency Medicine

(the "Institute") at the OU College of Medicine in Tulsa. The

primary duties and responsibilities of the Institute shall include:

1. Creation and delivery of educational initiatives related to

trauma systems development and trauma systems coordination, in order

to strengthen the quality of trauma care services rendered

statewide;

2. Development and support of an emergency medical response

infrastructure to include statewide planning and training functions;

3. Establishment and support of an allopathic emergency

medicine residency program in Oklahoma; and

4. In partnership with the State Department of Health, to

further develop an injury prevention research program to identify

significant risks and design and implement effective interventions

to mitigate those risks.

Up to Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00) of this fund

may be used for delivery of urgent care in under-served areas.

Expenditures from said 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.