1.    Notwithstanding section 15.1-27-03.2, the superintendent of public instruction shall create and assign a separate weighting factor to any school district that reorganizes on or after July 1, 2007.

2.     a.    The separate weighting factor must allow the reorganized school district to receive a payment rate equivalent to that which each separate school district would have received had the reorganization not taken place.

b.    The separate weighting factor must be computed to four decimal places.

c.    The provisions of this subsection are effective for a period of four years from the date of the reorganization.

3.    At the beginning of the fifth and at the beginning of the sixth years after the date of the reorganization, the superintendent of public instruction shall make proportionate adjustments in the assigned weighting factor so that beginning with the seventh year after the date of the reorganization, the weighting factor that will be applied to the reorganized district is that provided in section 15.1-27-03.2.