Chapter 891
AN ACT
SB 550
Relating to school finance; creating new provisions; amending sections
1 and 2, chapter 958, Oregon Laws 2001; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of
the State of
SECTION 1. Section 1, chapter 958, Oregon Laws 2001, as
amended by section 19, chapter 226, Oregon Laws 2003, is amended to read:
Sec.
1. (1) The purpose of this section is to ensure that school
districts receive a percentage of amounts received by the state under the Secure
Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-393).
(2) The Oregon
Department of Administrative Services shall distribute all sums received by the
state pursuant to section 102(a)(2), (c)(1) and (d)(1)(A), P.L. 106-393, or
based on P.L. 106-393, to counties in the same manner as are sums
derived from forest reserve rentals, sales of timber and other sources from
forest reserves under ORS 293.560. The department shall ensure that, of the
total amount distributed to all counties in any fiscal year, the percentage
distributed to each county in any fiscal year is the same as the county’s
percentage share of all payments received by the state during the eligibility
period described in section 3(2), P.L. 106-393.
(3) A county that receives
funds from the department pursuant to subsection (2) of this section as the
county’s share of federal funds distributed under P.L. 106-393 shall deposit 25
percent of those funds in the county school fund or
shall deposit an amount as specified in ORS 294.060 (3) to (6).
(4) Pursuant to ORS
328.015, amounts in the county school fund shall be distributed to the school
districts in the county based on the resident average daily membership of the
school districts.
SECTION 2. Section 2, chapter 958, Oregon Laws 2001, is
amended to read:
Sec.
2. Section 1 [of this 2001 Act],
chapter 958,
SECTION 3. If this 2007 Act does not become effective
until after July 1, 2007, the amendments to section 2, chapter 958, Oregon Laws
2001, by section 2 of this 2007 Act revive section 1, chapter 958, Oregon Laws
2001. If this 2007 Act does not become effective until after July 1, 2007, this
2007 Act shall be operative retroactively to that date, and the operation and
effect of section 1, chapter 958, Oregon Laws 2001, shall continue unaffected
from July 1, 2007, to the effective date of this 2007 Act and thereafter. Any
otherwise lawful action taken or otherwise lawful obligation incurred under the
authority of section 1, chapter 958, Oregon Laws 2001, after July 1, 2007, and
before the effective date of this 2007 Act, is ratified and approved.
SECTION 4. This 2007 Act being necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is
declared to exist, and this 2007 Act takes effect on its passage.
Approved by the Governor August 3, 2007
Filed in the office of Secretary of State August 3, 2007
Effective date August 3, 2007
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