Oklahoma § 74-166.7 - Rehabilitation Services Disbursing Fund

§ 74-166.7. Rehabilitation Services Disbursing Fund

A. There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving

fund for the Commission on Rehabilitation Services, to be designated

the "Rehabilitation Services Disbursing Fund" provided that the fund

may be designated by fiscal year designations as the Commission may

determine. The fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to

fiscal year limitations. The fund shall consist of receipts from

the federal government, monies appropriated to the State Department

of Rehabilitation Services by the State Legislature, and other

receipts of the State Department of Rehabilitation Services as shall

be directed by the Commission for Rehabilitation Services. All

monies accruing to the credit of the fund are hereby appropriated

and may be budgeted and expended by the Commission for

Rehabilitation Services as may be necessary in order to carry out

the duties imposed upon the Commission by law. Expenditures from

the Rehabilitation Services Disbursing 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.

B. Appropriations, federal monies or any other monies collected

by or for the Department and monies from the current and prior

fiscal years may be transferred to and between the agency disbursing

funds for the current or prior fiscal years, the Medical and

Assistance Funds and any other funds authorized for the use by the

Department as necessary to carry out the duties of the Commission.

All transfer requests shall be in writing to the Office of

Management and Enterprise Services. Such monies transferred shall

be included in the Department's budget work program. The Department

shall maintain records of the transfers.

C. Receipt and expenditure of unanticipated federal funds

awarded to the Department after the commencement of the fiscal year

shall be exempt from expenditure limitations, provided that any such

funds are included in the Department's budget work program.

D. The Director of the Department may request through the

Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services the

early transfer by the Oklahoma Tax Commission of tax collection to

the General Revenue Fund for the purpose of early allocation to the

Department's disbursing funds to alleviate cash-flow problems.

E. The Department of Rehabilitation Services may direct all or

a portion of federal and state funds received and appropriated for

services to Older Individuals who are Blind (OIB) to qualified

community-based, nonprofit organizations accredited by the National

Accreditation Council for Blind and Low Vision Services to

administer, pursuant to contract, services for older individuals

with vision impairments including, but not limited to, assisting in

correcting or modifying visual disabilities including optical vision

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 74. State Government

aids, in-home training, orientation and mobility, Braille

instruction, adaptive skills training, information and referral,

peer counseling and other appropriate services designed to assist an

older individual who is blind with daily living activities.

F. Funds received by the Commission for OIB Rehabilitation

Services from the federal Rehabilitation Services Administration and

state matching funds may, in their entirety, be used to fund the

Independent Living Older Blind program as established in The

Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended.

G. Services provided by qualified Older Independent Blind

contractors may be dependent upon budget parameters and staffing.

Added by Laws 1996, c. 239, § 9, eff. Sept. 1, 1996. Amended by

Laws 2012, c. 304, § 839; Laws 2017, c. 126, § 1, eff. July. 1,

2017; Laws 2018, c. 304, § 22, emerg. eff. May 10, 2018.

NOTE: Editorially renumbered from § 166.7 of Title 75 to provide

consistency in numbering.

NOTE: Laws 2017, c. 321, § 1 repealed by Laws 2018, c. 304, § 23,

emerg. eff. May 10, 2018.