(a) Beginning with the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, the Public Welfare Trust Fund, the Special Mental Health Fund, and the State General Fund shall annually receive the same amount of revenue from the state taxes on spirituous and vinous liquors pursuant to Sections 28-3-201, 28-3-202, 28-3-203, 28-3-204, and 28-3-205, respectively, that such entities received for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, until the annual growth in such receipts above this amount equals the amount of T.V.A. payments distributed to the dry counties and municipalities therein pursuant to subsection (c)(1) of Section 40-28-2, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009. Thereafter, in addition to the above amounts, the Public Welfare Trust Fund, the Special Mental Health Fund, and the State General Fund shall annually receive the amount of growth in those liquor tax receipts that exceeds the amount of T.V.A. payments distributed to the dry counties and municipalities therein pursuant to subsection (c)(1) of Section 40-28-2, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009.
(b) Beginning with the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, an amount up to the amount of T.V.A. payments distributed to the dry counties and municipalities therein pursuant to subsection (c)(1) of Section 40-28-2, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, of the growth in state taxes on spirituous and vinous liquors provided in subsection (a) above shall be distributed to the dry counties and municipalities therein that are not served by T.V.A. and that receive T.V.A. in-lieu-of-taxes payments pursuant to subsection (c)(1) of Section 40-28-2. Notwithstanding subsection (a), in addition to the distributions provided for in this subsection, the state shall distribute to the dry counties and dry municipalities therein each fiscal year from the state taxes on spirituous and vinous liquors an amount equal to the percentage growth in T.V.A. in-lieu-of-taxes payments received by the state.
(c) In addition to the above distribution, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011, there shall be an adjustment to increase or decrease the amount of state taxes on spirituous liquors distributed to the non-served T.V.A. counties as necessary to make the total amount paid to such counties for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011, equal to the amount of T.V.A. payments such counties would have received prior to the amended distribution provided in Act 2010-135.
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