Pennsylvania Statutes Title 24 P.S. Education § 25-2502.10. Temporary special aid to school districts due to real property reassessments

(a) For the school year 1978-1979 and each school year thereafter, a school district experiencing a fifteen per centum (15%) loss in total local revenue for the support of the public schools in any one (1) year due to the reassessment of one or more properties within the boundaries of the public school district shall qualify for special aid for a period of two (2) years on the condition that the school district tax rates which were in effect at the time of the reassessment are not reduced. Countywide reassessment shall not qualify a district for this special aid.

(b) During the first year of the reduction in revenue caused by the reassessment, a school district shall qualify for and receive a special grant equal to fifty per centum (50%) of the reduction, and in the following school year the district shall qualify for and receive a special grant equal to twenty-five per centum (25%) of the reduction in revenue caused by the reassessment: Provided, however, That a school district that qualified for such payments prior to the date of this amendatory act shall receive its first payment in the year this amendatory act is enacted.

(c) The special aid authorized by this section shall be paid from undistributed basic instruction subsidy funds to the extent that such funds are available. Beginning with payments made during the 1987-1988 school year and each school year thereafter, the special aid authorized by this section shall be paid from any funds not expended, encumbered or committed from appropriations for grants and subsidies made to the Department of Education: Provided, that no funds available from appropriations for library-related activities may be used for these payments.

(d) The provisions of this subsection shall apply to any school district qualifying for the temporary aid provided for in this section and receiving its second year of such aid during the 1982-1983 school year. For the purpose of computing a school district's equalized subsidy for basic education for the 1982-1983 school year, as provided for and limited by 24 Pa.C.S. § 2903(b)(2) (relating to limitation of certain payments), the Department of Education shall adjust the computation of payments on account of section 2502.9  1 of this act for the 1981-1982 school year as follows: the department shall recompute the district's guarantee, as provided for in section 2502.9(a) of this act, by adding to the computation of the guarantee for the 1980-1981 school year the amount of the second year payment of temporary special aid provided for in this section: Provided, however, That no district shall receive a lesser subsidy for the 1982-1983 school year as a result of such revised computation, nor a subsidy in excess of the full amount to which it would be entitled under the provisions of 24 Pa.C.S. §§ 2902 (relating to payments on account of instruction) and 2905 (relating to economic supplement) and that no district shall be entitled to an increased subsidy payment for the 1981-1982 school year as a result of such revised computation.