Certain penalty payments received by specified county school funds must not be counted in local effort calculations, and the state education department must reimburse improperly included amounts.
163.024. Environmental violations, moneys received from payment of civil penalty excluded from local effort — special provisions, Iron County (Iron, Jefferson, Reynolds, and Washington counties). — *1. All moneys received in the Iron County school fund, Reynolds County school fund, Jefferson County school fund, and Washington County school fund from the payment of a civil penalty pursuant to a consent decree filed in the United States district court for the eastern district of Missouri in December, 2011, in the case of United States of America and State of Missouri v. the Doe Run Resources Corporation d/b/a "The Doe Run Company," and the Buick Resource Recycling Facility, LLC, because of environmental violations shall not be included in any district's local effort figure, as such term is defined in section 163.011. The provisions of this subsection shall terminate on July 1, 2016. **2. (1) No moneys received in the Iron County school fund from the payment of any penalty, whether to resolve violations or as payment of any stipulated penalty, under Administrative Order on Consent No. APCP-2019-001 ("Order") issued by the department of natural resources and effective on August 30, 2019, shall be included as part of such school district's local effort for the calculation of local effort under section 163.011. (2) The department of elementary and secondary education shall reimburse such school district for the amount of any moneys described in subdivision (1) of this subsection that are or have been included in such school district's local effort contrary to subdivision (1) of this subsection. (3) The department of natural resources shall notify the revisor of statutes when the Order is terminated as provided in the Order, and this subsection shall expire on the last day of the fiscal year in which the revisor receives such notification from the department. (L. 2012 S.B. 599, A.L. 2023 S.B. 109) *Subsection 1 of this section terminated 1-01-16. **Subsection 2 of this section contains a contingent expiration date.