There is hereby created in the state treasury the employee educational development fund, to be used to pay the state administrative costs of any education program undertaken pursuant to specific collective bargaining agreements identified in uncodified law governing expenditure of the fund. The director of administrative services shall establish, and shall obtain the approval of the director of budget and management for, a charge for each such program that is sufficient only to recover those costs. All money collected from such a charge shall be deposited to the credit of the fund, and all interest earned on the fund shall accrue to the fund. The director of administrative services shall administer the fund in accordance with the respective collective bargaining agreements and may adopt rules for the purpose of this administration.
R.C. § 124.86