Okla. Stat. tit. 70, § 70-3-104.10: Oklahoma Imagination Library Program

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.