Montana Code Annotated 2017

TITLE 20. EDUCATION

CHAPTER 9. FINANCE

Part 6. Public School Fund and Grants to Schools

School District Block Grants

20-9-630. (Temporary) School district block grants. (1) (a) The office of public instruction shall provide block grants to school districts in accordance with this section.

(b) The electronic reporting system that is used by the office of public instruction and school districts must be used to allocate the block grant amount into each district's budget as an anticipated revenue source by fund.

(2) If the legislature enacts a reimbursement provision effective on or after July 1, 2017, that is to be distributed pursuant to this section, the office of public instruction shall determine the reimbursement amount as provided in the enactment and add the appropriate amount to block grant distributions under this section. The total of reimbursement distributions made pursuant to this subsection in a fiscal year must be added to all other distributions to the school district in the fiscal year to determine the distribution for the subsequent fiscal year.

(3) Each year, 70% of each district's block grant must be distributed in November and 30% of each district's block grant must be distributed in May at the same time that guaranteed tax base aid is distributed.

(4) (a) The block grant for the district transportation fund is equal to the amount received in fiscal year 2017 by the district transportation fund from the block grants provided for in subsection (1) and the amount received by the district transportation fund under subsection (2).

(b) (i) The combined fund block grant is equal to the amount received in fiscal year 2017 and the amount received under subsection (2).

(ii) The school district may deposit the combined fund block grant into any budgeted fund of the district.

(5) Upon creation of a new K-12 district under the provisions of 20-6-326, new block grant payments to the resulting high school district and the new K-12 district must be established by the office of public instruction based on the proportion of each district's taxable valuation. (Repealed effective July 1, 2018--secs. 11, 13(1), Ch. 2, Sp. L. November 2017.)

History: En. Sec. 244, Ch. 574, L. 2001; amd. Sec. 25, Ch. 13, Sp. L. August 2002; amd. Sec. 11, Ch. 550, L. 2003; amd. Sec. 13, Ch. 411, L. 2011; amd. Sec. 34, Ch. 268, L. 2013; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 205, L. 2017; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 332, L. 2017; amd. Sec. 14, Ch. 336, L. 2017.