A. Section 40 of Article X of the Oklahoma Constitution created a trust fund to be known as the “Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust Fund”. The trust fund principal shall consist of the portion of monies which are received by the State of Oklahoma on or after July 1, 2001, pursuant to any settlement with or judgment against any tobacco company or companies as provided by subsection B of this section, the Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000.00) transferred to the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust Fund pursuant to Section 29, Chapter 8, 1st Extraordinary Session, O.S.L. 2000, and any other monies that may be appropriated or otherwise directed to the trust fund by the Legislature.
B. The trust fund principal shall consist of monies which are deposited to the trust fund. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, income and investment return on trust fund principal shall accrue to the trust fund.
Added by Laws 2001, c. 274, § 3, emerg. eff. May 31, 2001.
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