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72-6410. Definitions; state aid; base state aid per pupil; school financing sources; federal impact aid. (a) "State financial aid" means an amount equal to the product obtained by multiplying base state aid per pupil by the adjusted enrollment of a district.

(b) (1) Subject to the other provisions of this subsection, "base state aid per pupil" means an amount appropriated by the legislature in a fiscal year for the designated year. The amount of base state aid per pupil for school year 2014-2015, and each school year thereafter, shall be at least $3,838.

(2) The amount of base state aid per pupil is subject to reduction commensurate with any reduction under K.S.A. 75-6704, and amendments thereto, in the amount of the appropriation from the state general fund for general state aid. If the amount of appropriations for general state aid is insufficient to pay in full the amount each district is entitled to receive for any school year, the amount of base state aid per pupil for such school year is subject to reduction commensurate with the amount of the insufficiency.

(c) "School financing sources" means the sum of the following amounts:

(1)  An amount equal to any unexpended and unencumbered balance remaining in the general fund of the district, except amounts received by the district and authorized to be expended for the purposes specified in K.S.A. 72-6430, and amendments thereto;

(2)  an amount equal to any unexpended and unencumbered balances remaining in the program weighted funds of the district, except any amount in the vocational education fund of the district if the district is operating an area vocational school;

(3)  an amount equal to any remaining proceeds from taxes levied under authority of K.S.A. 72-7056 and 72-7072, and amendments thereto, prior to the repeal of such statutory sections;

(4)  an amount equal to the amount deposited in the general fund in the current school year from amounts received in such year by the district under the provisions of subsection (a) of K.S.A. 72-1046a, and amendments thereto;

(5)  an amount equal to the amount deposited in the general fund in the current school year from amounts received in such year by the district pursuant to contracts made and entered into under authority of K.S.A. 72-6757, and amendments thereto;

(6)  an amount equal to the amount credited to the general fund in the current school year from amounts distributed in such year to the district under the provisions of articles 17 and 34 of chapter 12 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, and under the provisions of articles 42 and 51 of chapter 79 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto;

(7)  an amount equal to the amount of payments received by the district under the provisions of K.S.A. 72-979, and amendments thereto;

(8)  an amount equal to the amount of a grant, if any, received by the district under the provisions of K.S.A. 72-983, and amendments thereto; and

(9)  an amount equal to 70% of the federal impact aid of the district.

(d) "Federal impact aid" means an amount equal to the federally qualified percentage of the amount of moneys a district receives in the current school year under the provisions of title I of public law 874 and congressional appropriations therefor, excluding amounts received for assistance in cases of major disaster and amounts received under the low-rent housing program. The amount of federal impact aid defined herein as an amount equal to the federally qualified percentage of the amount of moneys provided for the district under title I of public law 874 shall be determined by the state board in accordance with terms and conditions imposed under the provisions of the public law and rules and regulations thereunder.

History: L. 1992, ch. 280, § 6; L. 1993, ch. 264, § 11; L. 1995, ch. 160, § 2; L. 1996, ch. 265, § 1; L. 1997, ch. 41, § 2; L. 1997, ch. 189, § 3; L. 1998, ch. 118, § 2; L. 1999, ch. 165, § 2; L. 2001, ch. 215, § 5; L. 2002, ch. 195, § 1; L. 2005, ch. 152, § 14; L. 2005, ch. 2, § 18 (Special Session); L. 2006, ch. 197, § 11; L. 2008, ch. 172, § 6; L. 2014, ch. 93, § 37; L. 2014, ch. 127, § 6; July 1.



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