The state board of education, by rule, may establish a fee to be paid by each charter school collaborative to offset any direct costs that the department of education may incur in collecting data from or regulating the charter school collaborative. The amount of the fee shall not exceed the amount of said direct costs. Any amount in fees received by the department of education pursuant to this section is continuously appropriated to the department for said direct costs.
C.R.S. § 22-30.5-605