Section 15.1-27-30.1 - School district closure - Distribution of transportation payments1. If a school district ceases to exist, the superintendent of public instruction shall calculate the amount of transportation payments to which the former school district would have been entitled for providing transportation services during the school district's final year of operation and shall pay a percentage of the amount certified to each school district in the state which enrolls students who attended the former school district during the prior school year. Each school district eligible for payment under this section is entitled to receive the percentage of the total amount certified which is the same as the percentage of the number of the district's students who attended the former school district during the prior school year bears to the total number of students who attended the former school district during the prior school year.2. Subject to legislative appropriation, the superintendent of public instruction shall pay the amount to which a school district is entitled under this section in the manner and at the time provided for other state payments in section 15.1-27-01.Added by S.L. 2021 , ch. 162( HB 1027 ), § 4, eff. 8/1/2021.