Section 97.80.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the 2009–10 fiscal year and for each fiscal year thereafter, the auditor of a qualified county shall do both of the following:

(1) Increase the total amount of ad valorem property tax revenue that is otherwise required to be allocated to that county by the county equity amount.

(2) (A) Decrease the total amount of ad valorem property tax revenue that is otherwise required to be allocated to the county Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund by the county equity amount.

(B) If, for any fiscal year, there is not enough ad valorem property tax revenue that is otherwise required to be allocated to a county Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund for the auditor to complete the allocation reduction required by subparagraph (A), the auditor shall additionally reduce the total amount of ad valorem property tax revenue that is otherwise required to be allocated to all school districts in the county for that fiscal year by an amount equal to the difference between the county equity amount and the amount of ad valorem property tax revenue that is otherwise required to be allocated to the county Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund for that fiscal year. This reduction for each school district in the county shall be the percentage share of the total reduction that is equal to the proportion that the total amount of ad valorem property tax revenue that is otherwise required to be allocated to the school district bears to the total amount of ad valorem property tax revenue that is otherwise required to be allocated to all school districts in a county. For purposes of this subparagraph, "school districts" do not include any districts that are excess tax school entities, as defined in Section 95.

(C) Any reduction in the amount of ad valorem property tax revenues deposited in the county's Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund as a result of subparagraph (A) shall be applied exclusively to reduce the amounts that are allocated from that fund to school districts and county offices of education, and shall not be applied to reduce the amounts of ad valorem property tax revenues that are otherwise required to be allocated from that fund to community college districts.

(b) For purposes of this section:

(1) "Qualified county" means the county that, of all the counties in the state, was allocated the lowest percentage of countywide ad valorem property tax revenue for the 2006–07 fiscal year.

(2) "County equity amount" means thirty-five million dollars ($35,000,000) for each of the 2009–10 and 2010–11 fiscal years, and fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) for the 2011–12 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter.

(c) For the 2009–10 fiscal year and for each fiscal year thereafter, ad valorem property tax revenue allocations made pursuant to Sections 96.1 and 96.5 shall not incorporate the allocation adjustments made by this section.

(Added by Stats. 2009, 3rd Ex. Sess., Ch. 4, Sec. 18. Effective February 20, 2009.)