2013 Nebraska Revised Statutes
Chapter 79 - SCHOOLS
79-1007.18 - Averaging adjustment; calculation.

79-1007.18. Averaging adjustment; calculation.

(1) The department shall calculate an averaging adjustment for districts if the basic funding per formula student is less than the averaging adjustment threshold and the general fund levy for the school fiscal year immediately preceding the school fiscal year for which aid is being calculated was at least one dollar per one hundred dollars of taxable valuation. For school districts that are members of a learning community, the general fund levy for purposes of this section includes both the common general fund levy and the school district general fund levy authorized pursuant to subdivisions (2)(b) and (2)(c) of section 77-3442. The averaging adjustment shall equal the district's formula students multiplied by the percentage specified in this section for such district of the difference between the averaging adjustment threshold minus such district's basic funding per formula student.

(2)(a) For school fiscal years 2012-13 and 2013-14, the averaging adjustment threshold shall equal the lesser of (i) the averaging adjustment threshold for the school fiscal year immediately preceding the school fiscal year for which aid is being calculated increased by the basic allowable growth rate or (ii) the statewide average basic funding per formula student for the school fiscal year for which aid is being calculated.

(b) For school fiscal year 2014-15 and each school fiscal year thereafter, the averaging adjustment threshold shall equal the aggregate basic funding for all districts with nine hundred or more formula students divided by the aggregate formula students for all districts with nine hundred or more formula students for the school fiscal year for which aid is being calculated.

(3) The percentage to be used in the calculation of an averaging adjustment shall be based on the general fund levy for the school fiscal year immediately preceding the school fiscal year for which aid is being calculated.

(4) The percentages to be used in the calculation of averaging adjustments shall be as follows:

(a) If such levy was at least one dollar per one hundred dollars of taxable valuation but less than one dollar and one cent per one hundred dollars of taxable valuation, the percentage shall be fifty percent;

(b) If such levy was at least one dollar and one cent per one hundred dollars of taxable valuation but less than one dollar and two cents per one hundred dollars of taxable valuation, the percentage shall be sixty percent;

(c) If such levy was at least one dollar and two cents per one hundred dollars of taxable valuation but less than one dollar and three cents per one hundred dollars of taxable valuation, the percentage shall be seventy percent;

(d) If such levy was at least one dollar and three cents per one hundred dollars of taxable valuation but less than one dollar and four cents per one hundred dollars of taxable valuation, the percentage shall be eighty percent; and

(e) If such levy was at least one dollar and four cents per one hundred dollars of taxable valuation, the percentage shall be ninety percent.

Source

Laws 2008, LB988, § 20;
Laws 2009, LB545, § 9;
Laws 2011, LB235, § 11;
Laws 2013, LB407, § 8.
Effective Date: May 22, 2013