2012 Wyoming Statutes
TITLE 21 - EDUCATION
CHAPTER 13 - SCHOOL FINANCE
21-13-102. Maximum rate of school district tax; recapture of excess; equalization of permissive levies.

(a) Except as otherwise provided by law, the maximum rate of school district tax that may be levied for all school purposes, exclusive of bond interest and redemption, for any school district in any school year on each dollar of assessed valuation within the school district is as follows:

(i) In a unified school district:

(A) Twenty-five (25) mills shall be levied for combined elementary, junior high and high school purposes.

(B) Repealed By Laws 1997 Special Session, ch. 3, 103(a).

(C) Repealed By Laws 1997 Special Session, ch. 3, 104(a).

(D) Repealed By Laws 2006, Chapter 37, 2.

(E) Repealed By Laws 2006, Chapter 37, 2.

(ii) In any nonunified school district consisting of kindergarten through grade eight (8):

(A) Twenty-five (25) mills shall be levied for school purposes.

(B) Repealed By Laws 1997 Special Session, ch. 3, 103(a).

(C) Repealed By Laws 1999, ch. 110, 103.

(D) Repealed By Laws 1997 Special Session, ch. 3, 104(a).

(E) Repealed By Laws 2006, Chapter 37, 2.

(F) Repealed By Laws 2006, Chapter 37, 2.

(b) For each school year:

(i) A school district whose revenues from the sources provided by W.S. 21-13-310 exceed the foundation program costs determined under W.S. 21-13-309 by more than three hundred percent (300%), as estimated to the districts on or before August 15 and as subsequently certified to the districts on or before March 1 of the current fiscal year under subsection (e) of this section, shall rebate fifty percent (50%) of the excess revenues to the department of education by January 15 of the applicable school year. The balance of the excess revenues shall be rebated to the department on or before June 15 of that school year;

(ii) A school district whose revenues specified under W.S. 21-13-310 for any school year exceed the foundation program costs determined under W.S. 21-13-309 by three hundred percent (300%) or less, as estimated and certified under subsection (e) of this section, shall rebate forty percent (40%) of the excess revenues to the department by January 15 of the applicable school year. The balance of the excess revenues shall be rebated to the department on or before June 15 of the applicable school year;

(iii) Amounts rebated under paragraphs (i) and (ii) of this subsection shall be credited to the public school foundation program account defined in W.S. 21-13-101(a)(ix).

(iv) Repealed by Laws 1984, ch. 53, 2.

(c) Repealed By Laws 2008, Ch. 94, 2.

(d) Repealed By Laws 1997 Special Session, ch. 3, 103(a).

(e) Annually on or before August 15 the department shall notify each district subject to recapture of the estimated amount due to the state during the current fiscal year, using data from the previous school year. Upon receipt of the state assessed values by school districts, and not later than March 1 of the current fiscal year, the department shall certify to each district subject to recapture the amount of recapture for the fiscal year to be remitted to the state. The amount certified shall supersede the estimates certified on or before August 15. If a district can demonstrate financial inability to make payments to the state as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the superintendent of public instruction may adjust the schedule of payments provided by subsection (b) of this section if the financial integrity of the foundation program will not be jeopardized.

(f) Repealed By Laws 2006, Chapter 37, 2.

(g) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the computed recapture for any school district which is subject to recapture and which levies more than the state average mill levy for the sum of levies required or authorized under W.S. 21-13-102(a), 21-13-201(a) and 21-13-303(a) and for repayment of bonded indebtedness, shall be reduced by the percent which the stated mill levies in the district exceed the state average for the stated mill levies. Each school district receiving a reduction under this subsection shall apply an equal amount of revenue from its operating funds to the repayment of bonded indebtedness during the ensuing fiscal year and reduce the amount of mill levy for the repayment of bonded indebtedness accordingly. Following the first reduction under this subsection, the department shall compute the required state averages and district levies as if no reduction in mill levies for bonded indebtedness were made and shall utilize mill levies for bonded indebtedness which would have been required but for the application of this subsection.

(h) Repealed By Laws 2006, Chapter 37, 2.

(j) Repealed By Laws 2006, Chapter 37, 2.