TITLE 33

EDUCATION

CHAPTER 9

SCHOOL FUNDS

33-907.  Public education stabilization fund. (1) There is hereby created in the state treasury a fund to be known as the public education stabilization fund, which shall function as a fund detail of the public school income fund. The fund shall consist of moneys transferred to the fund according to the provisions of sections 33-905, 33-1018 and 33-1018C, Idaho Code, and any other moneys made available through legislative transfers or appropriations. Moneys in the fund are hereby continuously appropriated for the purposes stated in sections 33-1018 and 33-1018B, Idaho Code, and shall only be expended for the purposes stated in sections 33-1018, 33-1018A and 33-1018B, Idaho Code. Any accumulated balances in the fund that are in excess of eight and one-third percent (8.334%) of the current fiscal year’s total appropriation of state funds for public school support shall be transferred to the bond levy equalization fund. Interest earned from the investment of moneys in the fund shall be retained in the fund.

(2)  For the period July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2023, no moneys from the public education stabilization fund shall be withdrawn for any purpose, including those in sections 33-1018, 33-1018A, and 33-1018B, Idaho Code, and any other law or rule to the contrary, for encumbered obligations and unencumbered expenditures associated with state funds appropriated for fiscal year 2022. The state department of education shall prorate any negative variance pursuant to section 33-1018, Idaho Code, by a formula prescribed by the state department of education.

History:

[33-907, added 2003, ch. 372, sec. 8, p. 988; am. 2006, ch. 311, sec. 5, p. 962; am. 2006, 1st Ex. Sess., ch. 1, sec. 7, p. 47; am. 2017, ch. 211, sec. 1, p. 514; am. 2021, ch. 348, sec. 3, p. 1050.]