NH Rev Stat § 198:41 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 198 - School Money|Section 198:41 - Determination of Education Grants.

    198:41 Determination of Education Grants. –||I. Except for municipalities where all school districts therein provide education to all of their pupils by paying tuition to other institutions, the department of education shall determine the total education grant for the municipality as follows:||(a) Add the per pupil cost of providing the opportunity for an adequate education for which each pupil is eligible pursuant to RSA 198:40-a, I-III, and from such amount;||(b) Subtract the amount of the education tax warrant to be issued by the commissioner of revenue administration for such municipality reported pursuant to RSA 76:8 for the next tax year; and||(c) [Repealed.]||(d) Add the municipality's additional aid for relief funding pursuant to RSA 198:40-e.||II. For municipalities where all school districts therein provide education to all of their pupils by paying tuition to other institutions, the department of education shall determine the total education grant for each municipality as the lesser of the 2 following calculations:||(a) The amount calculated in accordance with paragraph I of this section; or||(b) The total amount paid for items of current education expense as determined by the department of education minus the amount of the education tax warrant to be issued by the commissioner of revenue administration for such municipality reported pursuant to RSA 76:8 for the next tax year.||III. (a) For the biennium ending June 30, 2013, the department of education shall not distribute a total education grant on behalf of all pupils who reside in a municipality that exceeds that municipality's total education grant in the second year of the previous biennium.||(b) [Repealed.]||IV. (a) For fiscal year 2012, the department of education shall identify all municipalities in which the fiscal year 2012 total education grant will be less than the fiscal year 2011 total education grant. The department shall distribute a stabilization grant to each of those municipalities equal to 100 percent of the decrease.||(b) For fiscal year 2013, the department of education shall identify all municipalities in which the fiscal year 2013 total education grant, including any stabilization grant distributed pursuant to subparagraph (a), will be less than the fiscal year 2011 total education grant. The department shall distribute funds to each of those municipalities equal to 100 percent of the decrease.||(c) For fiscal year 2014 through fiscal year 2016, the department of education shall distribute a total education grant to each municipality in an amount equal to the total education grant for the fiscal year in which the grant is calculated plus the amount of the fiscal year 2012 stabilization grant, if any, distributed to the municipality.||(d) For fiscal year 2017 and each fiscal year thereafter, the department of education shall distribute a total education grant to each municipality in an amount equal to the total education grant for the fiscal year in which the grant is calculated plus a percentage of the municipality's fiscal year 2012 stabilization grant, if any, distributed to the municipality; the percentage shall be 96 percent for fiscal year 2017, 92 percent for fiscal year 2018, 88 percent for fiscal year 2019, and 100 percent for fiscal year 2020 and each fiscal year thereafter. No stabilization grant shall be distributed to any municipality for any fiscal year in which the municipality's education property tax revenue collected pursuant to RSA 76 exceeds the total cost of an adequate education or to any municipality for any fiscal year in which the municipality's ADMA is zero.||V. The department shall use the best available data and methods to estimate ADMA and education grants by November 15 of the year preceding the school year for which aid is determined.||VI. The department shall produce a revised estimate of grants using actual determination year data for the purpose of settling municipal tax rates. A municipality's grant estimate shall not be less than 95 percent of the estimate reported pursuant to paragraph V. The commissioner of the department of education shall provide the estimate for the current fiscal year to the commissioner of the department of revenue administration no later than October 1 of each year.||VII. When final determination year data is available, but not later than April 1, the department shall make a final determination of grant amounts. A municipality's grant estimate shall not be less than 95 percent of the estimate reported pursuant to paragraph V. The department shall adjust the April grant disbursement required pursuant to RSA 198:42 so that the total amount disbursed for the fiscal year shall match the final grant determination.||VIII. Reports of grant determinations for municipalities required pursuant to paragraphs V-VII shall be available to the public by the date specified in paragraphs V-VII, and the department shall make available a report for multi-town school districts. The department of education shall provide the department of revenue administration the information needed to set tax rates.|||Source. 1999, 17:41; 338:10. 2003, 241:7. 2004, 200:8; 244:4. 2005, 257:7, 8. 2006, 6:1, 2. 2007, 270:3, eff. June 29, 2007. 2008, 173:9, eff. July 1, 2009; 173:17, I, eff. June 30, 2009; 173:17, III, eff. July 1, 2011. 2011, 258:3, eff. July 1, 2011. 2013, 4:1, eff. Mar. 18, 2013; 144:120, eff. July 1, 2013. 2015, 276:139, eff. July 1, 2015; 276:140, eff. July 1, 2017. 2016, 8:4, 5, eff. Mar. 16, 2016; 85:9, eff. July 18, 2016. 2019, 346:235, eff. July 1, 2020; 346:236, III, eff. July 1, 2021; 346:238, eff. July 1, 2019. 2021, 91:57, eff. July 1, 2021.|