Section 2KKKKKK: Imagination Library of Massachusetts Fund
[ Text of section added by 2025, 7, Sec. 4 effective June 24, 2025.]
Section 2KKKKKK. (a) There is hereby established and set up on the books of the commonwealth a separate, non-budgeted special revenue fund known as the Imagination Library of Massachusetts Fund that shall be administered by the secretary of education.
(b) There shall be credited to the fund: (i) revenue from appropriations and other money authorized by the general court and specifically designated to be credited to the fund; (ii) funds from public and private sources such as gifts, grants and donations; and (iii) interest earned on money in the fund. Amounts credited to the fund shall be expended without further appropriation. No expenditure made from the fund shall cause the fund to be in deficit at any point. Any money remaining in the fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the General Fund. The fund shall not be subject to section 5C.
(c) Funds shall be made available to provide age-appropriate books on a monthly basis, at home, to each child registered in the Imagination Library of Massachusetts program, established pursuant to section 22 of chapter 15D, from birth to their fifth birthday, inclusive, at no cost to families or guardians, in coordination with Dolly Parton's Imagination Library.