Montana Code Annotated 2017

TITLE 20. EDUCATION

CHAPTER 9. FINANCE

Part 6. Public School Fund and Grants to Schools

State Lands Reimbursement Block Grant

20-9-640. (Temporary) State lands reimbursement block grant. (1) (a) For each fiscal year of the biennium beginning July 1, 2017, the office of public instruction shall provide a state lands reimbursement block grant of $100,000 to each school district in a county with greater than 20% of the county's land area composed of state school trust lands.

(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 general fund budget as an anticipated revenue source.

(2) 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. (Terminates June 30, 2019--sec. 20, Ch. 416, L. 2017.)

History: En. Sec. 4, Ch. 416, L. 2017.