Title 20, Title 20

(1) The purpose of school major maintenance aid as provided in this section is to support school facility projects, including the payment of principal and interest on obligations issued pursuant to 20-9-471 for school facility projects, that support a basic system of free quality…

(1) The trustees of a district may establish a technology acquisition and depreciation fund for school district expenditures incurred for: (a) the purchase, rental, repair, and maintenance of technological equipment, including computers and computer network access; (b) cloud comp…

(1) There is a Montana Indian language preservation program. The program is established to support efforts of Montana tribes to preserve and perpetuate Indian languages in the form of spoken, written, sung, or signed language and to help meet the state's educational goal of prese…

(1) The trustees of a district may establish a school flexibility fund and may use the fund, in their discretion, for school district expenditures incurred for: (a) technological equipment enhancements and expansions considered by the trustees to support enhanced educational prog…

(Temporary) Statewide average per-pupil spending. (1) The superintendent of public instruction shall calculate the per-pupil average of total public school expenditures in Montana for the second most recently completed school fiscal year by August 1 of the ensuing school fiscal y…

The public school fund must be maintained by the state treasurer as a fund in the permanent fund type, and the principal amount of the fund is irreducible and permanent. The following money must be credited to the fund as an addition to the irreducible and permanent principal amo…

(1) The transfer of farm mortgage lands, made by Chapter 250, Laws of 1953, shall be deemed to have vested title in such lands in the state of Montana in trust for the state public school fund. (2) All contracts, certificates of purchase, deeds, and conveyances executed by the st…

(1) The governor and the superintendent of public instruction are authorized on behalf of the state of Montana to request and accept money that is or will be made available under any act of congress of the United States or otherwise for purposes of public school building construc…

(1) The trustees of a district may accept gifts, legacies, and devises, subject to the conditions imposed by the deed of the donor or the will of the testator or without any conditions imposed. Unless otherwise specified by the donor, devisor, or testator, when a district receive…

(1) The trustees of a rural school district may negotiate with a real estate developer or subdivision developer in the school district to voluntarily contribute an impact payment to the district's building fund. The maximum amount of the payment that the trustees may accept must …

(1) As used in 20-9-621, 20-9-622, and this section, "distributable revenue" means, except for that portion of revenue described in 20-9-516(2)(a) and 77-1-109, 95% of all revenue from the management of school trust lands and the permanent fund, including timber sale proceeds, le…

(1) The public school fund provided for in Article X, section 2, of the Montana constitution consists of the permanent fund, which consists of the permanent corpus fund. (2) The permanent fund must be invested for the purpose of generating future income for distribution to public…

(1) There is a guarantee account in the state special revenue fund. The guarantee account is intended to: (a) stabilize the long-term growth of the permanent fund; and (b) maintain a constant and increasing distributable revenue stream. All realized capital gains and all distribu…

(1) The natural resource development K-12 school facilities payment replaces the former natural resource development K-12 funding payment as a means to provide local property tax relief by supporting school district facility needs. (2) The legislature intends the natural resource…

(1) (a) The office of public instruction shall provide a coal-fired generating unit closure mitigation block grant to each school district with a fiscal year 2017 taxable valuation that includes a coal-fired generating unit with a generating capacity that is greater than or equal…

For the purposes of an interlocal cooperative agreement, the prime agency shall be the district or other public agency vested with the financial administration of the interlocal cooperative agreement under the terms of such agreement and the cooperating agency shall be any distri…

Any district contracting with other districts or other public agencies to establish an interlocal cooperative agreement under the provisions of Title 7, chapter 11, part 1, shall be subject to the provisions of 20-9-701, 20-9-703, and 20-9-704 for the purposes of the financial ad…

(1) When the prime agency is a district, it is authorized and required to establish a nonbudgeted interlocal cooperative fund for the purpose of the financial administration of the interlocal cooperative agreement. All revenues received, including federal, state, or other types o…

(1) When a district is the cooperating agency, it shall transfer its financial support under the interlocal cooperative contract to the prime agency by district warrant. (2) The financial support may be provided from any fund maintained by the district. Any such fund utilized for…

(1) The trustees of any district adjacent to another state may enter into a contract with a school district in such adjoining state to provide for the joint erection, operation, and maintenance of school facilities for both districts upon such terms and conditions as may be mutua…

(1) As used in this section, "postsecondary institution" means a unit of the Montana university system, a public community college, or a tribal college. (2) A school district may enter into an interlocal agreement pursuant to Title 7, chapter 11, with a postsecondary institution …

(1) The trustees of a school district may enter into an interlocal cooperative agreement for the ensuing school fiscal year under the provisions of Title 7, chapter 11, part 1, with the Montana youth challenge program or with a Montana job corps program accredited by the northwes…

This part governs a school district's entitlement to state equalization apportionment funds for any school year during which the school district is unable to conduct the minimum aggregate hours by grade required by 20-1-301 by reason of one or more unforeseen emergencies. The pro…

As used in this part, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the following definitions apply: (1) "Declaration of emergency" means a declaration by a board of trustees that an unforeseen emergency has occurred in the district. (2) "Reasonable effort" means the rescheduli…

(1) Except as provided in 20-9-806, for each hour short of the minimum number of aggregate hours required by law that a school district fails to conduct by reason of one or more unforeseen emergencies, the superintendent of public instruction shall reduce the BASE aid of the dist…

(1) (a) Except as provided in subsection (2), if a school is closed by reason of an unforeseen emergency that results in a declaration of emergency by the board of trustees, the trustees may later adopt a resolution that a reasonable effort has been made to reschedule the pupil-i…