Citations Affected:
IC 20-5-4-1.5
.
Synopsis: Bonds for school corporation retirement liability.
Authorizes school corporations in St. Joseph County to issue bonds to
implement solutions to contractual retirement or severance liability.
Provides that those school corporations may issue bonds for this
purpose only one time and that the bonds must be issued before
December 2, 2000. Requires a reduction in other property tax levies to
offset the debt service levy needed.
Effective: July 1, 2000; December 2, 2000.
November 18, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance.
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
education finance.
SECTION 1.
IC 20-5-4-1.5
IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE
AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY
1, 2000]: Sec. 1.5. (a) For purposes of this section, "retirement or
severance liability" means the payments anticipated to be required
to be made to employees of a school corporation upon or after the
termination of their employment by the school corporation under
an existing or previous employment agreement.
(b) In addition to the purposes set forth in section 1 of this
chapter, school corporations located in a county having a
population of more than two hundred thousand (200,000) but less
than three hundred thousand (300,000) may issue bonds to
implement solutions to contractual retirement or severance
liability. The issuance of bonds for this purpose is subject to the
following limitations:
(1) A school corporation may issue bonds for the purpose
described in this section only one (1) time.
(2) The solution to which the bonds are contributing must be
reasonably expected to reduce the school corporation's
existing unfunded contractual liability for retirement or
severance payments.
(3) The amount of the bonds that may be issued for the
purpose described in this section may not exceed two percent
(2%) of the total assessed valuation of property in the school
corporation.
(4) Each year that a debt service levy is needed under this
section, the school corporation shall reduce its total property
tax levy for the school corporation's other funds in an amount
equal to the property tax levy needed for the debt service
under this section.
(c) Bonds issued for the purpose described in this section shall
be issued in the same manner as other bonds of the school
corporation.
(d) Bonds issued under this section must be issued before
December 2, 2000.
SECTION 2.
IC 20-5-4-1.5
IS REPEALED [EFFECTIVE
DECEMBER 2, 2000].
SECTION 3. [EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 2, 2000]
Notwithstanding the repeal of
IC 20-5-4-1.5
, as added by this act,
the following provisions apply to bonds issued under
IC 20-5-4-1.5
,
as added by this act, before December 2, 2000:
(1) The bonds remain valid and binding obligations of the
school corporation that issued them, as if
IC 20-5-4-1.5
had
not been repealed.
(2) Each year that a debt service levy is needed for the bonds,
the school corporation that issued the bonds shall reduce its
total property tax levy for the school corporation's other
funds in an amount equal to the property tax levy needed for
the debt service on the bonds.