Moneys in the property tax relief fund shall be utilized in each fiscal year as follows in the order listed:
1. The first sixty-one million dollars plus the amount paid pursuant to subsection 3 in the previous fiscal year in the property tax relief fund shall be distributed to counties under this subsection. A county's proportion of the moneys shall be equivalent to the sum of the following three factors:
a. One-third based upon the county's proportion of the state's general population.
b. One-third based upon the county's proportion of the state's total taxable property valuation assessed for taxes payable in the previous fiscal year.
c. One-third based upon the county's proportion of all counties' base year expenditures, as defined in section 331.438, Code 1995, and reported to the state on October 15, 1994.
Moneys provided to a county for property tax relief in a fiscal year in accordance with this subsection shall not be less than the amount provided for property tax relief in the previous fiscal year.
2. Payment of moneys to eligible counties of the state payment in accordance with the provisions of sections 331.438 and 331.439.
3. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1996, and succeeding fiscal years, the department of human services shall estimate the amount of moneys required for the state payment pursuant to subsection 2. Moneys remaining in the property tax relief fund following the payment made pursuant to subsection 1 and the estimated amount of the state payment pursuant to subsection 2 shall be paid for property tax relief in the same manner as provided in subsection 1 to counties eligible for state payment under subsection 2. These payments shall continue until the combined amount of the payments made under this subsection and subsection 1 are equal to fifty percent of the total of all counties' base year expenditures as defined in section 331.438. The amount of moneys paid to a county pursuant to this subsection shall be added in subsequent fiscal years to the amount of moneys paid under subsection 1.
4. Moneys remaining in the property tax relief fund following the payments made pursuant to subsections 1, 2, and 3 shall be transferred to the homestead credit fund created in section 425.1. This transfer shall continue until the homestead credit is fully funded.
5. The department of human services shall notify the director of revenue and finance of the amounts due a county in accordance with the provisions of this section. The director of revenue and finance shall draw warrants on the property tax relief fund, payable to the county treasurer in the amount due to a county in accordance with subsections 1 and 3 and mail the warrants to the county auditors in September and March of each year. Warrants for the state payment in accordance with subsection 2 shall be mailed in January of each year.
95 Acts, ch 206, §18; 96 Acts, ch 1205, § 4, 5
Referred to in § 331.424A, 331.438, 331.439, 426B.1, 426B.3, 444.25A
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