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Senate Bill No. 541

(By Senators Plymale and Edgell)

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[Originating in the Committee on Finance;

reported February 23, 2007.]

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A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §11-1C-5b; to amend and reenact §11-8-6f of said code; to amend said code by adding thereto a new section, designated §11-21-23; to amend and reenact §18-9A-2 and §18-9A-11 of said code; and to amend said code by adding thereto a new section, designated §18-9A- 2a, all relating to public school finance; requiring local share to be calculated assuming properties are being assessed at sixty percent of market value; eliminating the one-percent limit on revenue generated by the regular school board levy; freezing the school board levy rates at their current rate; amending "growth county" definition and clarifying what new property values to include for the purposes of the Growth County School Facilities Act; increasing state aid to financially impacted counties and counties assessing at a minimum of fifty-seven percent of market value by reducing the percentage used to calculate levies for general current expense purposes; providing for a refundable property tax credit for real property taxes paid in excess of a certain percent of income; requiring that a library funding obligation created by special act be paid from certain funds; limiting a library funding obligation; allowing, under certain conditions, a transfer of the library funding obligation so that the obligation is paid from excess levy revenues; and voiding the library funding obligation under certain conditions.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §11-1C-5b; that §11-8-6f of said code be amended and reenacted; that said code be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §11-21-23; that §18-9A-2 and §18-9A-11 of said code be amended and reenacted; and that said code be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §18-9A-2a, all to read as follows:
CHAPTER 11. TAXATION.

ARTICLE 1C. FAIR AND EQUITABLE PROPERTY VALUATION.
§11-1C-5b. Assessment for purpose of calculating local share.
(a) This section is effective the first day of July, two thousand ten.
(b) The Tax Commissioner shall calculate the total assessed values for the purpose of calculating local share for each county each year pursuant to this section and report the total assessed values to the State Board of Education on or before the first day of December of each year.
(c) To provide for assessors to assess at sixty percent of market value, it is the intent of the Legislature that local share, as set forth in section eleven, article nine-a, chapter eighteen of this code, be calculated assuming that the types of property included in the assessment ratio study in each county are assessed at a level in which the assessment ratio study indicates would be sixty percent of market value.
(d) For each of Classes II, III and IV as set forth in section five, article eight of this chapter, all real property of the type that is or would be included in the assessment ratio study if sold is assumed for the purpose of calculating local share to be assessed at the amount the property would be assessed at if all the property in the class were adjusted under the assumption that, using a ratio of sixty percent, all the property were under or over assessed to the same extent as that property included in the assessment ratio study so that using the assessment ratio study as an indicator all the property in the class would be assessed at the ratio of sixty percent of market value.
(e) The amount of the assumed assessed values determined pursuant to subsection (d) of this section shall be added to the actual assessed values of personal property, farmland, managed timberland, public utility property or any other centrally assessed property provided in paragraphs (A), (B), (C) and (D), subdivision (2), subsection (a), section five of this article and the sum of these values is the total assessed value for the purpose of calculating local share.
ARTICLE 8. LEVIES.

§11-8-6f. Regular school board levy rate; creation and implementation of Growth County School Facilities Act; creation of Growth County School Facilities Act Fund.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, where any annual appraisal, triennial appraisal or general valuation of property would produce a statewide aggregate assessment that would cause an increase of one percent or more in the total property tax revenues that would be realized were the then current regular levy rates of the county boards of education to be imposed, the rate of levy for county boards of education shall be reduced uniformly statewide and proportionately for all classes of property for the forthcoming tax year so as to cause the rate of levy to produce no more than one hundred one percent of the previous year's projected statewide aggregate property tax revenues from extending the county board of education levy rate, unless subsection (b) of this section is complied with. The reduced rates of levy shall be calculated in the following manner: (1) The total assessed value of each class of property as it is defined by section five, article eight of this chapter for the assessment period just concluded shall be reduced by deducting the total assessed value of newly created properties not assessed in the previous year's tax book for each class of property; (2) the resulting net assessed value of Class I property shall be multiplied by .01; the value of Class II by .02; and the values of Class III and IV, each by .04; (3) total the current year's property tax revenue resulting from regular levies for the boards of education throughout this state and multiply the resulting sum by one hundred one percent: Provided, That the one hundred one percent figure shall be increased by the amount the boards of educations' increased levy provided for in subsection (b), section eight, article one-c of this chapter; (4) divide the total regular levy tax revenues, thus increased in subdivision (3), of this subsection, by the total weighted net assessed value as calculated in subdivision (2) of this subsection and multiply the resulting product by one hundred; the resulting number is the Class I regular levy rate, stated as cents-per-one hundred dollars of assessed value; and (5) the Class II rate is two times the Class I rate; Classes III and IV, four times the Class I rate as calculated in the preceding subdivision.
An additional appraisal or valuation due to new construction or improvements, including beginning recovery of natural resources, to existing real property or newly acquired personal property shall not be an annual appraisal or general valuation within the meaning of this section, nor shall the assessed value of the improvements be included in calculating the new tax levy for purposes of this section. Special levies shall not be included in any calculations under this section.
(b) After conducting a public hearing, the Legislature may, by act, increase the rate above the reduced rate required in subsection (a) of this section if an increase is determined to be necessary.
(a) The rates of levy for county boards of education are as follows:
(1) For Class I properties, the rate of levy for county boards of education is nineteen and forty-four one hundredths percent;
(2) For Class II properties, the rate of levy for county boards of education is thirty-eight and eighty-eight one hundredths percent; and
(3) For Class III and Class IV properties, the rate of levy for county boards of education is seventy-seven and seventy-six one hundredths percent.
(c) (b) Growth County School Facilities Act. -- Legislative findings. --
The Legislature finds and declares that there has been, overall, a statewide decline in enrollment in the public schools of this state; due to this decline, most public schools have ample space for students, teachers and administrators; however, some counties of this state have experienced significant increases in enrollment due to significant growth in those counties; that those counties experiencing significant increases do not have adequate facilities to accommodate students, teachers and administrators. Therefore, the Legislature finds that county commissions boards of education in those high-growth counties should have the authority to designate revenues generated from the application of the regular school board levy due to new construction or improvements placed in a growth county school facilities act fund be used for school facilities in those counties to promote the best interests of this state's students.
(1) For the purposes of this subsection, "growth county" means any county that has experienced an increase in second month net enrollment excluding kindergarten students less than five years of age without an individualized education program of fifty or more during any three of the last five years, as determined by the State Department of Education.
(2) The provisions of this subsection shall only apply to any growth county, as defined in subdivision (1) of this subsection, that, by resolution of its county board of education, chooses to use the provisions of this subsection.
(3) For any growth county, as defined in subdivision (1) of this subsection, that adopts a resolution choosing to use the provisions of this subsection, pursuant to subdivision (2) of this subsection, assessed values resulting from additional appraisal or valuation due to new construction or improvements including beginning recovery of natural resources, to existing real property or newly acquired personal property, shall be designated as new property values and identified by the county assessor. The statewide regular school board levy rate as established by the Legislature shall be applied to the assessed value designated as new property values and the resulting property tax revenues collected from application of the regular school board levy rate shall be placed in a separate account, designated as the Growth Counties School Facilities Act Fund. Revenues deposited in the Growth Counties School facilities Act fund shall be appropriated by the county board of education for construction, maintenance or repair of school facilities. Revenues in the fund may be carried over for an indefinite length of time and may be used as matching funds for the purpose of obtaining funds from the School Building Authority or for the payment of bonded indebtedness incurred for school facilities. For any growth county choosing to use the provisions of this subsection, estimated school board revenues generated from application of the regular school board levy rate to new property values are not to be considered as local funds for purposes of the computation of local share under the provisions of section eleven, article nine-a, chapter eighteen of this code.
(d) (c) This section, as amended during the legislative session in the year two thousand four, shall be effective as to any regular levy rate imposed for the county boards of education for taxes due and payable on or after the first day of July, two thousand four. If any provision of this section is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this section which can be given effect without the invalid provision or its application and to this end the provisions of this section are declared to be severable.
ARTICLE 21. PERSONAL INCOME TAX.
§11-21-23. Refundable credit for real property taxes paid in excess of two and a half percent of income.

(a) For the tax years beginning on or after the first day of January, two thousand eight, any homeowner living in his or her homestead shall be allowed a refundable credit against the taxes imposed by this article equal to the amount of real property taxes paid in excess of four
percent of their income. If the refundable credit provided in this section exceeds the amount of taxes imposed by this article, the State Department of Revenue shall refund that amount to the homeowner.
(b) Due to the administrative cost of processing, the refundable credit authorized by this section may not be refunded if less than ten dollars.
(c) The credit for each property tax year shall be claimed by filing a claim for refund within twelve months after the real property taxes are paid on the homestead.
(d) For the purposes of this section:
(1) "Income" means all income received by the claimant and, if married, all income received by the claimant's spouse in the taxable year including all income included in federal adjusted gross income, subject to the following:
(A) "Income" includes alimony, support money, nontaxable strike benefits, nontaxable amounts of any individual retirement account, pension or annuity including railroad retirement benefits and benefits paid under the federal Social Security Act except the social security death benefit, state unemployment insurance, veterans disability pensions and compensation, nontaxable interest received from the federal government or any of its instrumentalities, nontaxable interest received from a state government or any of its instrumentalities, except those of West Virginia, workers' compensation and loss of earnings insurance; and
(B) "Income" does not mean capital gains including return of principal paid by the recipient of an annuity; inheritances and reimbursements for medical care or prescription drugs; or any other payments received for damages or injury to the homeowner; and
(2) For the tax years beginning before the first day January, two thousand eight, "real property taxes paid" means the aggregate of regular levies, excess levies and bond levies extended against the homestead that are paid during the calendar year and determined after any application of any discount for early payment of taxes but before application of any penalty or interest for late payment of property taxes for property tax years that begin on or after the first day of January, two thousand eight.
(e) A homeowner is eligible to benefit from this section or section twenty-one of this article, whichever section provides the most benefit as determined by the homeowner. No homeowner may receive benefits under both this section and section twenty-one of this article during the same taxable year. Nothing in this section denies those entitled to the homestead exemption provided in section three, article six-b of this chapter.
(f) No homeowner may receive a refundable tax credit imposed by this article in excess of one thousand dollars. This amount shall be reviewed annually by the Legislature to determine if an adjustment is necessary.
CHAPTER 18. EDUCATION.

ARTICLE 9A. PUBLIC SCHOOL SUPPORT.
§18-9A-2. Definitions.
For the purpose of this article:
(a) "State board" means the West Virginia Board of Education.
(b) "County board" or "board" means a county board of education.
(c) "Professional salaries" means the state legally mandated salaries of the professional educators as provided in article four, chapter eighteen-a of this code.
(d) "Professional educator" shall be synonymous with and shall have the same meaning as "teacher" as defined in section one, article one of this chapter.
(e) "Professional instructional personnel" means a professional educator whose regular duty is as that of a classroom teacher, librarian, counselor, attendance director, school psychologist or school nurse with a bachelors degree and who is licensed by the West Virginia Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses. A professional educator having both instructional and administrative or other duties shall be included as professional instructional personnel for that ratio of the school day for which he or she is assigned and serves on a regular full-time basis in appropriate instruction, library, counseling, attendance, psychologist or nursing duties.
(f) "Service personnel salaries" shall mean means the state legally mandated salaries for service personnel as provided in section eight-a, article four, chapter eighteen-a of this code.
(g) "Service personnel" shall mean means all personnel as provided for in section eight, article four, chapter eighteen-a of this code. For the purpose of computations under this article of ratios of service personnel to adjusted enrollment, a service employee shall be counted as that number found by dividing his or her number of employment days in a fiscal year by two hundred: Provided, That the computation for any such service person employed for three and one-half hours or less per day as provided in section eight-a, article four, chapter eighteen-a of this code shall be calculated as one-half an employment day.
(h) "Net enrollment" means the number of pupils enrolled in special education programs, kindergarten programs and grades one to twelve, inclusive, of the public schools of the county. Commencing with the school year beginning on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred eighty-eight, net enrollment further shall include adults enrolled in regular secondary vocational programs existing as of the effective date of this section, subject to the following:
(1) Provided, That Net enrollment shall include includes no more than one thousand such of those adults counted on the basis of full-time equivalency and apportioned annually to each county in proportion to the adults participating in regular secondary vocational programs in the prior year counted on the basis of full-time equivalency; and
(2) Provided, however, That no Net enrollment does not include any adult charged tuition or special fees beyond that required of the regular secondary vocational student. is charged for such adult students
(i) "Adjusted enrollment" means the net enrollment plus twice the number of pupils enrolled for special education. Commencing with the school year beginning on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety, adjusted enrollment means the net enrollment plus twice the number of pupils enrolled for special education, including gifted pupils in grades one through eight and exceptional gifted pupils in grades nine through twelve, plus the number of pupils in grades nine through twelve enrolled for honors and advanced placement programs, plus the number of pupils enrolled on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred eighty-nine, in the gifted program in grades nine through twelve, subject to the following:
(1) Provided, That commencing with the school year beginning on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety, No more than four percent of net enrollment of grades one through eight may be counted as enrolled in gifted education and no more than six percent of net enrollment of grades nine through twelve may be counted as enrolled in gifted education, exceptional gifted education (subject to the limitation set forth in section one, article twenty of this chapter) and honors and advanced placement programs for the purpose of determining adjusted enrollment within a county;
(2) Provided, however, That Nothing herein shall be construed to limit the number of students who may actually enroll in gifted, exceptional gifted, honors or advanced placement education programs in any county; Provided further, That until the school year beginning on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-two, the preceding percentage limitations shall not restrict the adjusted enrollment definition for a county to the extent that those limitations are exceeded by students enrolled in gifted education programs on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred eighty-nine:
(3) And provided further, That No pupil may be counted more than three times for the purpose of determining adjusted enrollment;
(4) Such The enrollment shall be adjusted to the equivalent of the instructional term and in accordance with such the eligibility requirements and rules as established by the state board; and
(5) No pupil shall be counted more than once by reason of transfer within the county or from another county within the state, and no pupil shall be counted who attends school in this state from another state.
(j) "Levies for general current expense purposes" means ninety-eight percent of the levy rate for county boards of education calculated or set by the Legislature pursuant to the provisions of section six-f, article eight, chapter eleven of this code, subject to the provisions of section two-a of this article.
"Basic resources per pupil" for the state and the several counties means the total of (a) ninety-five percent of the property tax revenues computed at the levy rate for county boards of education calculated or set by the Legislature pursuant to the provisions of section six-f, article eight, chapter eleven of this code, but excluding revenues from increased levies as provided in section ten, article X of the Constitution of West Virginia, and (b) basic state aid as provided in sections twelve and thirteen of this article, but excluding the foundation allowance to improve instructional programs as provided in section ten of this article, and excluding any funds appropriated for the purpose of achieving salary equity among county board employees, this total divided by the number of students in adjusted enrollment: Provided, That beginning with the school year commencing on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-one, and thereafter, the foundation allowance for transportation costs as provided in section seven of this article shall also be excluded and the total shall be divided by the number of students in net enrollment: Provided, however, That any year's allocations to the counties of the eighty percent portion of the foundation allowance to improve instructional programs, as provided in section ten of this article, shall be determined on the basis of the immediately preceding school year's basic resources per pupil.
§18-9A-2a. Definition of levies for general current expense purposes.

(a) For the purposes of this section only, "financially impacted county" means any county in which:
(1) Second month net enrollment has increased by at least one hundred students in any three of the past five years; and
(2) The number of classrooms covered by highly qualified teachers is ninety-three percent or less of total classrooms in the county over two of the past three years. For the purposes of this subdivision, "highly qualified teacher" means the same as defined by state board policy.
(b) Any additional state aid received by a county board by reason of the county meeting the definition of financially impacted county pursuant to this subsection shall be set aside and used solely for salaries and personnel: Provided, That this additional state aid may not be used to increase the salaries of central office administrators or to hire additional central office administrators.
(c) For the purposes of this section only, "property" means only Classes II, III and IV properties exclusive of natural resources property as defined in section ten, article one-c, chapter eleven of this code, personal property, farmland, managed timberland, public utility property or any other centrally assessed property provided in paragraphs (A), (B), (C) and (D), subdivision (2), subsection (a), section five, article one-c, chapter eleven of this code: Provided, That nothing in this subsection may be construed to require that levies for general current expense purposes be applied only to those properties that are included in this definition.
(d) For the purposes of this section only, the median ratio of the assessed values to actual selling prices in the assessment ratio study applicable to the immediately preceding fiscal year shall be used as the indicator to determine the percentage market value that properties are being assessed at.
(e) "Levies for general current expense purposes" means ninety-eight percent of the levy rate for county boards of education calculated or set by the Legislature pursuant to the provisions of section six-f, article eight, chapter eleven of this code.
(f) Notwithstanding subsection (d) of this section or section two of this article, for the two thousand eight fiscal year, for a county not qualifying as a financially impacted county that is assessing property at a minimum of fifty-seven percent of market value, "levies for general current expense purposes" means ninety- four percent of the levy rate for county boards of education set by the Legislature pursuant to section six-f, article eight, chapter eleven of this code.
(g) Notwithstanding subsection (d) of this section or section two of this article, for the two thousand eight fiscal year, for a financially impacted county that is assessing property at a minimum of fifty-seven percent of market value, "levies for general current expense purposes" means eighty-four percent of the levy rate for county boards of education set by the Legislature pursuant to section six-f, article eight, chapter eleven of this code.
(h) Notwithstanding subsection (d) of this section or section two of this article, for the two thousand nine fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, for a county not qualifying as a financially impacted county that is assessing property at a minimum of fifty-seven percent of market value, "levies for general current expense purposes" means ninety percent of the levy rate for county boards of education set by the Legislature pursuant to section six- f, article eight, chapter eleven of this code.
(i) Notwithstanding subsection (d) of this section or section two of this article, for the two thousand nine fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, for a financially impacted county that is assessing property at a minimum of fifty-seven percent of market value, "levies for general current expense purposes" means eighty percent of the levy rate for county boards of education set by the Legislature pursuant to section six-f, article eight, chapter eleven of this code.
(j) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section or section two of this article, for any county that qualifies as a financially impacted county for two or more consecutive years and then fails to qualify as a financially impacted county the year immediately following the two consecutive years:
(1) If that county is assessing property at a minimum of ninety-five percent of sixty percent of market value, for the one fiscal year immediately following the consecutive two years only, "levies for general current expense purposes" means eighty-five percent of the levy rate for county boards of education set by the Legislature pursuant to section six-f, article eight, chapter eleven of this code; and
(2) If that county is assessing property at less than ninety-five percent of sixty percent of market value, for the one fiscal year immediately following the consecutive two years only, "levies for general current expense purposes" means ninety-three percent of the levy rate for county boards of education set by the Legislature pursuant to section six-f, article eight, chapter eleven of this code.
(k) Any county that receives additional state aid due to its assessing property at least at fifty-seven percent of market value and therefore uses a percentage less than ninety-eight percent in the calculation of levies for general current expense purposes, shall report to the state board how the additional state aid was used. The state board shall compile the reports from all the county boards into a single report, and shall report to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountability how the county boards used this additional state aid. The report shall be made annually as soon as practical after the end of each fiscal year.
§18-9A-11. Computation of local share; appraisal and assessment of property; public library support.

(a) On the basis of each county's certificates of valuation as to all classes of property as determined and published by the assessors pursuant to section six, article three, chapter eleven of this code for the next ensuing fiscal year in reliance upon the assessed values annually developed by each county assessor pursuant to the provisions of articles one-c and three of said chapter, the state board shall for each county compute by application of the levies for general current expense purposes, as defined in section two of this article, the amount of revenue which the levies would produce if levied upon one hundred percent of the assessed value of each of the several classes of property contained in the report or revised report of the value, made to it by the Tax Commissioner as follows:
(1) The state board shall first take ninety-five percent of the amount ascertained by applying these rates to the total assessed public utility valuation in each classification of property in the county.
(2) The state board shall then apply these rates to the assessed taxable value of other property in each classification in the county as determined by the Tax Commissioner and shall deduct therefrom five percent as an allowance for the usual losses in collections due to discounts, exonerations, delinquencies and the like. All of the amount so determined shall be added to the ninety-five percent of public utility taxes computed as provided in subdivision (1) of this subsection and this total shall be further reduced by the amount due each county assessor's office pursuant to the provisions of section eight, article one-c, chapter eleven of this code and this amount shall be the local share of the particular county.
As to any estimations or preliminary computations of local share that may be required prior to the report to the Legislature by the Tax Commissioner, the state Board of Education shall use the most recent projections or estimations that may be available from the Tax Department for that purpose.
(b) Commencing with the two thousand eleven fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter, subsection (a) of this section is void and local share shall be calculated in accordance with the following:
(1) The state board shall for each county compute by application of the levies for general current expense purposes, as defined in sections two and two-a of this article, the amount of revenue which the levies would produce if levied upon one hundred percent of the assessed value calculated pursuant to section five-b, article one-c, chapter eleven of this code;
(2) Five percent shall be deducted from the revenue calculated pursuant to subdivision (1) of this subsection as an allowance for the usual losses in collections due to discounts, exonerations, delinquencies and the like; and
(3) The amount calculated in subdivision (2) of this subsection shall further be reduced by the sum of money due each assessor's office pursuant to the provisions of section eight, article one-c, chapter eleven of this code and this reduced amount shall be the local share of the particular county.
(b) (c) Whenever in any year a county assessor or a county commission shall fail or refuse to comply with the provisions of this section in setting the valuations of property for assessment purposes in any class or classes of property in the county, the State Tax Commissioner shall review the valuations for assessment purposes made by the county assessor and the county commission and shall direct the county assessor and the county commission to make corrections in the valuations as necessary so that they shall comply with the requirements of chapter eleven of this code and this section and the Tax Commissioner shall enter the county and fix the assessments at the required ratios. Refusal of the assessor or the county commission to make the corrections constitutes grounds for removal from office.
(c) (d) For the purposes of any computation made in accordance with the provisions of this section, in any taxing unit in which tax increment financing is in effect pursuant to the provisions of article eleven-b, chapter seven of this code, the assessed value of a related private project shall be the base-assessed value as defined in section two of said article.
(d) (e) For purposes of any computation made in accordance with the provisions of this section, in any county where the county board of education has adopted a resolution choosing to use the provisions of the growth county school facilities act set forth in section six-f, article eight, chapter eleven of this code, estimated school board revenues generated from application of the regular school board levy rate to new property values, as that term is designated in said section, may not be considered local share funds and shall be subtracted before the computations in subdivisions (1) and (2), subsection (a) of this section or in subdivisions (2) and (3), subsection (b) of this section as applicable, are made.
(f) The Legislature finds that public school systems throughout the state provide support in varying degrees to public libraries through a variety of means including budgeted allocations, excess levy funds and portions of their regular school board levies as may be provided by special act. A number of public libraries are situated on the campuses of public schools and several are within public school buildings serving both the students and public patrons. To the extent that public schools recognize and choose to avail the resources of public libraries toward developing within their students such legally recognized elements of a thorough and efficient education as literacy, interests in literature, knowledge of government and the world around them and preparation for advanced academic training, work and citizenship, public libraries serve a legitimate school purpose and may do so economically. For the purposes of any computation made in accordance with the provisions of this section, the library funding obligation on the regular school board levy created by one of the special acts set forth in subsection (i) shall be paid only from that portion of the levy revenues which exceed the amount determined to be local share, subject to the following:
(1) The portion of school levy revenues exceeding local share that exist due to a county meeting the definition of a financially impacted county is dedicated to salaries and personnel except for central office administrators, pursuant to section two-a of this article, and therefore, may not be used for meeting the library funding obligation;
(2) No portion of the levy revenues required for local share may be used to satisfy the library obligation; and
(3) If the library funding obligation is greater than the portion of the levy revenues from which this subsection requires the obligation to be paid from, the obligation created by the special act is reduced to the amount which is available from that portion, notwithstanding any provisions of the special act to the contrary.
(g) Notwithstanding any provision of any special act set forth in subsection (i) of this section to the contrary, the county board of any county with a special act creating a library obligation out of the county's regular school levy revenues may transfer that library obligation so that it becomes an obligation of its excess levy revenues, subject to the following:
(1) The library funding obligation shall remain an obligation of the regular school levy revenues until after the fiscal year in which a vote on an excess levy occurs;
(2) The county board shall include the funding of the public library obligation in the same amount as its library funding obligation on its regular levy revenues as the purpose or one of the purposes for the excess levy to be voted on;
(3) Regardless of whether or not the excess levy passes, effective the fiscal year after the fiscal year in which a vote on the excess levy occurs, a county's library obligation on its regular levy revenues is void notwithstanding any provision of the special acts set forth in subsection (i) of this section to the contrary; and
(4) Nothing is subdivision (3) of this subsection prohibits a county board from funding its public library obligation voluntarily.
(h) Notwithstanding any provision of the special acts set forth in subsection (i) of this section to the contrary, each county's library funding obligation shall forever remain the same as the dollar amount of the obligation during the two thousand seven fiscal year.
(i) It is the intent of the Legislature that wherever a provision of subsection (f), (g) or (h) of this section is contrary to any special act of the Legislature that creates a library funding obligation on the regular school board levy of a county, subsection (f), (g) or (h), as applicable, of this section controls over the special act. Specifically, the special acts which are subject to subsections (f), (g) and (h) of this section include:
(1) Enrolled Senate Bill No. 11, passed on the twelfth day of February, one thousand nine hundred seventy, applicable to the Berkeley County Board of Education;
(2) Enrolled House Bill No. 1352, passed on the seventh day of April, one thousand nine hundred eighty-one, applicable to the Hardy County Board of Education;
(3) Enrolled House Bill No. 2833, passed on the fourteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred eighty-seven, applicable to the Harrison County Board of Education;
(4) Enrolled House Bill No. 161, passed on the sixth day of March, one thousand nine hundred fifty-seven, applicable to the Kanawha County Board of Education;
(5) Enrolled Senate Bill No. 313, passed on the twelfth day of March, one thousand nine hundred thirty-seven, as amended by Enrolled House Bill No. 1074, passed on the eighth day of March, one thousand nine hundred sixty-seven, and as amended by Enrolled House Bill No. 1195, passed on the eighteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred eighty-two, applicable to the Ohio County Board of Education;
(6) Enrolled House Bill No. 938, passed on the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand nine hundred sixty-nine, applicable to the Raleigh County Board of Education;
(7) Enrolled House Bill No. 398, passed on the first day of March, one thousand nine hundred thirty-five, applicable to the Tyler County Board of Education;
(8) Enrolled Senate Bill No. 450, passed on the eleventh day of March, one thousand nine hundred ninety-four, applicable to the Upshur County Board of Education;
(9) Enrolled House Bill No. 2994, passed on the thirteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred eighty-seven, applicable to the Wood County Board of Education; and
(10) Any other special act that creates a library funding obligation out of regular school levy revenues in the future.
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