Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:4851 Primary Sponsor:Hodges Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Lancaster County school district trustees Residing Body:Senate Computer Document Number:436/12509.DW Introduced Date:May 14, 1992 Last History Body:Senate Last History Date:May 21, 1992 Last History Type:Placed on Local and Uncontested Calendar without reference Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Hodges Boan Type of Legislation:General Bill
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4851 Senate May 21, 1992 Placed on Local and
Uncontested Calendar without
reference
4851 Senate May 21, 1992 Introduced, read first time
4851 House May 20, 1992 Read third time, sent to
Senate
4851 House May 19, 1992 Read second time
4851 House May 14, 1992 Introduced, read first time,
placed on Calendar without
reference
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INTRODUCED
May 21, 1992
H. 4851
L. Printed 5/21/92--S.
Read the first time May 21, 1992.
TO AMEND ACT 777 OF 1988, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, SO AS TO DECREASE FROM NINE TO SEVEN THE NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, PROVIDE THAT EACH MEMBER OF THE BOARD MUST BE ELECTED FROM SINGLE-MEMBER ELECTION DISTRICTS FROM WHICH MEMBERS OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL ARE ELECTED, DELETE TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS, PROVIDE FOR THE STAGGERING OF TERMS OF THE NEWLY ELECTED MEMBERS, PROVIDE THAT MEMBERS SERVING ON THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS ACT SHALL SERVE THE REMAINDER OF THE TERM FOR WHICH THEY WERE ELECTED, TO PROVIDE THAT A VACANCY OCCURRING AT LEAST ONE HUNDRED TWENTY DAYS BEFORE A GENERAL ELECTION MUST BE FILLED BY A SPECIAL ELECTION, AND DELETE THE PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SINGLE-MEMBER ELECTION DISTRICTS.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Sections 2 and 3 of Act 777 of 1988 are amended to read:
"Section 2. Beginning with the certification of the members of the board of trustees elected at the time of the general election of 1988 1992, the Lancaster County School District Board of Trustees shall consist of nine seven members who must be elected from single-member election districts as provided in Section 3. The terms of all present at-large members serving on the effective date of this act expire at that time shall serve the remainder of the term for which they were elected. However, the four members of the current Lancaster County School Board of Education who represent Andrew Jackson, Buford, Indian Land, and Lancaster area boards of trustees shall hold over and be members of the Lancaster County School District until the successors to the members elected from Districts 2, 4, 6, and 8 are elected in the general election of 1990 as provided in this section. An election of the trustees must be held at the time of the general election in 1988. The members first elected after the effective date of this act from Districts 2, 4, 6, and 8 shall serve until their successors are elected in the general election of 1990. The members first elected after the effective date of this act from Districts 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 shall serve until their successors are elected in the general election of 1992. At the 1990 general election, the members must be elected for terms of four years and until their successors are elected and qualify. At the time of the 1992 general election, members from Districts 2 and 6 shall receive four-year terms and the member from District 5 shall receive a two-year term. At the time of the 1994 general election, members from Districts 1, 3, 5, and 7 shall receive four-year terms and the member from District 4 shall receive a two-year term. At the time of the 1996 general election and each election after that time, all members must be elected for terms of four years and until their successors are elected and qualify. The candidate receiving the highest number of the votes in each district in the general election must be declared elected. Vacancies on the board must be filled by special election if the vacancy occurs ninety one hundred twenty days or more prior to before the general election. If the vacancy occurs less than ninety one hundred twenty days prior to before the general election, the vacancy may not be filled.
Section 3. The Lancaster County School District Board of Trustees must be elected from each of the following seven single-member election districts: from which members of the Lancaster County Council are elected. If the district lines from which members of the county council are elected change, then the applicable district lines for the election of the board of trustees for the school district shall change accordingly.
District No. Population of Variance
and Composition Districts
District No. 1
Lancaster Div. (Pt)
ED 968 0
ED 969 0
ED 970 235
ED 928 606
ED 971 124
Lancaster City (Pt)
T. 107 4,806
5,771 -2.66
District No. 2
Van Wyck Div. 4,080
Lancaster Div. (Pt)
ED 952 1,136
ED 953 276
ED 960 258
5,750 -3.02
District No. 3
Lancaster Div. (Pt)
ED 943 2,057
ED 945 464
ED 946 536
ED 944 0
ED 966 1,596
ED 939 442
ED 954 703
5,798 -2.21
District No. 4
Lancaster Div. (Pt)
ED 951 1,972
ED 955 54
ED 957(A) 22
ED 956 30
ED 958 0
T. 109 Pt:
BG 1 777
BG 2 1,205
BG 3 420
T. 108 Pt:
BG 1 742
BG 2 Pt: 696
Less B. 214-218 (237)
BG 3 Pt:
B. 301-305,
309-314 282
5,963 + .57
District No. 5
Lancaster Div. (Pt)
ED 929 875
ED 930(A) 269
ED 931 389
ED 1018(C) 0
ED 932 7
ED 933 1,308
ED 964 391
ED 965 2,006
ED 1003 0
ED 963 19
T. 108 Pt: 2,117
Less BG 1 (742)
Less BG 2 Pt: (696)
Less B.
214-218 (237)
Less BG 3 Pt:
B. 301-305,
309-314 (282)
Lancaster City Pt:
T. 105 278
Rest-of-Division:
T. 105 303
Less ED 960 (258)
6,221 +4.92
District No. 6
Tradesville Div. Pt: 2,355
Less ED 975 (380)
Less ED 976 (398)
Lancaster Div.
ED 937 552
ED 938 477
ED 950 452
ED 940 1,071
ED 941 302
ED 942 527
ED 947 1,094
6,052 +2.07
District No. 7
Lancaster Div.
ED 961 1,694
ED 962 462
ED 935 1,373
ED 934 892
ED 935 363
Heath Springs Div.
ED 999 334
ED 1000 753
5,871 - .98
District No. 8
Kershaw Div. Pt: 7,211
Less District VIII (6,192)
Heath Springs Div. Pt: 4,754
Less ED 999 (334)
Less ED 1000 (753)
Lancaster Div.
ED 948 127
ED 949 142
Tradesville Div. Pt:
ED 975 380
ED 976 398
5,743 -3.14
District No. 9
Kershaw Div.
ED 989 674
ED 988 60
ED 990(A) 0
ED 987 1,015
ED 983 265
ED 984 582
ED 985 184
Kershaw Town 1,993
Spring Mills CDP 1,419
6,192 +4.44"
SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.