A. There is hereby created in the State Treasury a fund for the Oklahoma Tax Commission to be known as the "Oklahoma Tax Commission and Office of Management and Enterprise Services Joint Computer Enhancement Fund". The fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall consist of all monies deposited to the fund pursuant to law. All monies accruing to the credit of said fund are hereby appropriated and may be budgeted and expended for the purposes authorized by subsection B of this section. 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.

B. Monies in the Oklahoma Tax Commission and Office of Management and Enterprise Services Joint Computer Enhancement Fund shall be expended for the following purposes:

1. To make payments on an agreement authorized by Section 5, Chapter 278, O.S.L. 2008;

2. To make payments authorized by Section 34.33 of Title 62 of the Oklahoma Statutes; and

3. To the extent not needed for the above-listed purposes to be expended on other projects as specifically authorized by the Legislature.

C. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there shall be apportioned to the Oklahoma Tax Commission and Office of Management and Enterprise Services Joint Computer Enhancement Fund from the monies that would otherwise be apportioned by Section 2352 of this title, the revenue received as a result of any contracts entered into by the Oklahoma Tax Commission pursuant to Section 264 of this title.

D. The Tax Commission is hereby authorized to deposit to the credit of the Oklahoma Tax Commission and Office of Management and Enterprise Services Joint Computer Enhancement Fund any monies in excess of the amounts necessary to pay all claims presented to its cash security reserve fund. When monies are deposited to the credit of the Computer Enhancement Fund, the right of any person to present a claim for refund of a cash security shall be preserved and the value thereof shall be paid from the cash security reserve fund.

E. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2015, and thereafter a portion of the revenue apportioned to the Oklahoma Tax Commission and Office of Management and Enterprise Services Joint Computer Enhancement Fund pursuant to Sections 1353, 1403 and 2352 of this title shall be credited to the Oklahoma Tax Commission, in an amount which is equal to the sum of one-half of one percent (0.5%) of gross collections of sales and use tax levied by counties of this state pursuant to Section 1370 of this title and one-half of one percent (0.5%) of sales and use tax levied by municipalities of this state pursuant to Section 2701 of this title.

Added by Laws 2008, c. 278, § 6, eff. July 1, 2008. Amended by Laws 2009, c. 426, § 6, eff. July 1, 2009; Laws 2010, c. 412, § 11, eff. July 1, 2010; Laws 2012, c. 304, § 536; Laws 2014, c. 303, § 1, eff. July 1, 2015.