ORS 327.011: Description of Local Revenues for purpose of State School Fund distributions.

For the purpose of State School Fund distributions for school districts: (1) Local Revenues are the total of the following: (a) The amount of revenue offset against local property taxes as determined by the Department of Revenue. (b) The amount of property taxes actually received by the district, including penalties and interest on taxes. (c) The amount of revenue received by the district from the Common School Fund under ORS 327.403 to 327.410. (d) The amount of revenue received by the district from the county school fund. (e) The amount of revenue received by the district from state managed forestlands under ORS 530.115 (1)(b) and (c). (f) Moneys received in lieu of property taxes. (g) Federal funds received without specific application by the school district and that are not deemed under federal law to be nonsupplantable. (h) Any positive amount obtained by subtracting the operating property taxes actually imposed by the district, based on the rate certified pursuant to ORS 310.060, from the amount that would have been imposed by the district if the district had certified the maximum rate of operating property taxes allowed by law. (i) Any amount distributed to the district in the prior fiscal year under ORS 327.019 (8). (2) Local Revenues do not include: (a) If a school district imposes local option taxes pursuant to ORS 280.040 to 280.145, an amount equal to the least of: (A) The amount of revenue actually received by the district from local option taxes imposed pursuant to ORS 280.040 to 280.145; (B) Twenty-five percent of the total received by the school district from the general purpose grant, the transportation grant and the high cost disabilities grant of the district, as those grants are calculated under ORS 327.013; or (C) $2,000 per district extended ADMw, as calculated under ORS 327.013, increased each fiscal year by three percent above the amount allowed per district extended ADMw for the prior fiscal year. (b) For a school district with a statutory rate limit on July 1, 2003, that is greater than $4.50 per $1,000 of assessed value, the amount of property taxes actually received by the district, including penalties and interest on taxes, that results from an increase in the rate of ad valorem property tax of the district allowed under Article XI, section 11 (5)(d), of the Oregon Constitution. [2009 c.698 §6; 2017 c.17 §28; 2018 c.33 §1; 2023 c.537 §1; 2023 c.586 §2; 2025 c.321 §11]