A. On or before July 1 of each year, the department shall allocate from the fund at least ninety percent of the estimated entitlement for each school district, state institution or governmentally controlled school as determined from the estimated forty-day membership for the next school year to each school district, state institution and governmentally controlled school. The entitlement of a school district, a state institution or a governmentally controlled school is the portion of the total amount of the annual appropriation less a deduction for a reasonable reserve for emergency expenses that its forty-day membership bears to the forty-day membership of the entire state. Additional students shall be counted as six students for the purpose of the allocation.

B. On or before January 15 of each year, the department shall recompute each entitlement using the forty-day membership for that year and shall allocate the balance of the annual appropriation adjusting for any over- or under-estimation made in the first allocation.

C. The department shall establish procedures to distribute funds directly to school districts, state institutions and governmentally controlled schools.

D. A school district, a state institution or a governmentally controlled school that has funds remaining for the purchase of school library material at the end of a fiscal year shall retain those funds for expenditure in subsequent years.

History: Laws 2003, ch. 149, § 6; 2005, ch. 213, § 1; 2009, ch. 134, § 5.

The 2009 amendment, effective June 19, 2009, in Subsection A, after the first occurrence of "state institution", added "or governmentally controlled school"; after the second occurrence of "state institution", added "and governmentally controlled school"; and after the third occurrence of "state institution", added "or a governmentally controlled school"; in Subsection C, after "state institution", added "or a governmentally controlled school"; and in Subsection D, after "state institution", added "or a governmentally controlled school".

The 2005 amendment, effective June 17, 2005, changed "distribute" to "allocate" in Subsection A.