Okla. Stat. tit. 47, § 47-1104.6

Applications for funds – Restrictions on use of funds.

A. Twenty Dollars ($20.00) of the fee authorized by Section

1135.5 of this title for Choose Life license plates shall be

deposited by Service Oklahoma to the Choose Life Assistance Program

created in subsection B of this section.

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

fund for the Department of Human Services to be designated the

Choose Life Assistance Program. The fund shall be a continuing

fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall consist of

all the monies received by the Department of Human Services pursuant

to the provisions of Section 1135.5 of this title. All monies

accruing to the credit of the fund are appropriated and shall be

distributed at the beginning of each fiscal year in a pro rata share

to all nonprofit organizations that provide services to the

community that include counseling and meeting the physical needs of

pregnant women who are committed to placing their children for

adoption. Any unused funds in excess of ten percent (10%) of the

funds allocated to a nonprofit organization shall be returned to the

Choose Life Assistance Program Revolving Fund at the end of the

fiscal year to be aggregated and distributed with the next fiscal

year distribution.

C. To apply for and receive the funds available through the

Choose Life Assistance Program, an organization must deliver to the

Department of Human Services an affidavit signed by a duly appointed

representative of the organization that states the following:

1. The organization is a nonprofit organization;

2. The organization does not discriminate for any reason,

including, but not limited to, race, marital status, gender,

religion, national origin, handicap or age;

3. The organization counsels pregnant women who are committed

to placing their children for adoption;

4. The organization is not involved or associated with any

abortion activities, including counseling for or referrals to

abortion clinics, providing medical abortion-related procedures, or

pro-abortion advertising;

5. The organization does not charge women for any services

received;

6. The organization understands that sixty percent (60%) of the

funds received by an organization can only be used to provide for

the material needs of pregnant women who are committed to placing

their children for adoption, including clothing, housing, medical

care, food, utilities, and transportation. Such funds may also be

expended on infants awaiting placement with adoptive parents. Forty

percent (40%) of the funds may be used for adoption, counseling,

training, or advertising, but may not be used for administrative

expenses, legal expenses, or capital expenditures;

7. The organization understands that no funds may be used for

administrative expenses, legal expenses, or capital expenditures;

8. The organization understands that any unused funds at the

end of the fiscal year that exceed ten percent (10%) of the funds

received by the organization during the fiscal year must be returned

to the Choose Life Assistance Program Revolving Fund to be

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aggregated and distributed with the next fiscal year distribution;

and

9. The organization understands that each organization that

receives such funds must submit to an annual audit of such funds

verifying that the funds received were used in the manner prescribed

by statute.

D. Funds may not be distributed to any organization that is

involved or associated with abortion activities, including

counseling for or referral to abortion clinics, providing medical

abortion–related procedures, or pro-abortion advertising, and funds

may not be distributed to any organization that charges women for

services received.

E. Sixty percent (60%) of the funds received by an organization
s may not be distributed to any organization that is

involved or associated with abortion activities, including

counseling for or referral to abortion clinics, providing medical

abortion–related procedures, or pro-abortion advertising, and funds

may not be distributed to any organization that charges women for

services received.

E. Sixty percent (60%) of the funds received by an organization

can only be used to provide for the material needs of pregnant women

who are committed to placing their children for adoption, including

clothing, housing, medical care, food, utilities, and

transportation. Such funds may also be expended on infants awaiting

placement with adoptive parents. Forty percent (40%) of the funds

may be used for adoption, counseling, training, or advertising, but

may not be used for administrative expenses, legal expenses, or

capital expenditures.

F. Each organization that receives funds must submit to an

annual audit of such funds verifying that the funds received were

used in the manner prescribed in this section.