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Committee reviews complex amendment on hospital and school district boundary transfers affecting Big Sky and Ennis
Summary
An amendment to Senate Bill 260 would phase transfers of taxable value between hospital districts over three years and create a reconciliation payment process for school districts when isolated pupils attend another district, aiming to reduce abrupt fiscal shocks to losing districts.
HELENA, Mont.
A lengthy work-session discussion on March 27 focused on proposed amendments to Senate Bill 260 that change how territory transfers between hospital and school districts would be handled. The amendment's authors said the changes are intended to reduce abrupt fiscal impacts on districts that lose taxable value and to create a procedure for school-district reconciliation payments where isolated pupils attend a different district. The changes were discussed as a response to a local dispute between Big Sky and Madison/Ennis-area jurisdictions.
Jesse Luther of the Big Sky Resort Area District presented a walkthrough of the amendment. Key features include new definitions (hospital district, school district, "unable to access on-site services"), a tightened qualified-petitioner definition limited to individuals who own real property in the affected territory (corporate petitioners were removed), and a new process that…
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