Current Status Introducing Body:Senate Bill Number:717 Primary Sponsor:Macaulay Type of Legislation:JR Subject:Superintendent of Education, appointment of Residing Body:Senate Computer Document Number:CYY/15505SD.93 Introduced Date:19930421 Date of Last Amendment:19940317 Last History Body:Senate Last History Date:19940317 Last History Type:Amended, read second time, ordered to third reading with notice of general amendments Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Macaulay Leventis McConnell Type of Legislation:Joint Resolution
Bill Body Date Action Description CMN Leg Involved
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717 Senate 19940317 Amended, read second time,
ordered to third reading with
notice of general amendments
717 Senate 19940224 Committee Report: Favorable 04
with amendment
717 Senate 19930421 Introduced, read first time, 04
referred to Committee
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT ADOPTED AND AMENDED
March 17, 1994
S. 717
Introduced by SENATORS Macaulay, Leventis and McConnell
S. Printed 3/17/94--S.
Read the first time April 21, 1993.
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 7 OF ARTICLE VI AND SECTION 2 OF ARTICLE XI OF THE CONSTITUTION OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1895, RELATING RESPECTIVELY TO ELECTIVE OFFICERS AND THE STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION, SO AS TO DELETE THE SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION FROM THE LIST OF OFFICERS WHO MUST BE ELECTED AND TO PROVIDE THAT HE OR SHE MUST BE APPOINTED BY THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION WITH QUALIFICATIONS AS PRESCRIBED BY THE BOARD AND BY LAW, AND PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 1, ARTICLE XI, RELATING TO THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION, SO AS TO REVISE THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE BOARD BY PROVIDING THAT THE BOARD SHALL CONSIST OF ONE MEMBER ELECTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY FROM EACH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF THIS STATE AND FIVE MEMBERS APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR FROM THE STATE AT LARGE.
Amend Title To Conform
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. It is proposed that Section 1, Article XI of the Constitution of this State be amended to read:
"Section 1. There shall must be a State Board of Education composed of the members hereinafter specified one member from each of the judicial circuits of the State. The members shall be elected by the legislative delegations of the several counties within each circuit for terms and with such powers and duties as may be provided by law and shall be rotated among the several counties. One additional member shall be appointed by the Governor. One member must be elected from each congressional district of this State by a majority of the members of the Senate and a majority of the members of the House of Representatives voting in joint assembly, and one member must be appointed by the Governor from the State at large. The members of the board shall serve such those terms and the board shall have such those powers and duties as the General Assembly shall specify by law."
SECTION 2. The proposed amendment of Section 4 of this act must be submitted to the qualified electors at the next general election. Ballots must be provided at the various voting precincts with the following words printed or written on the ballots:
"Must Section 1 of Article XI of the Constitution of this State be amended so as to revise the membership of the State Board of Education by providing that the board shall consist of one member elected by a majority of the members of the Senate and a majority of the members of the House of Representatives voting in joint assembly, and one member appointed by the Governor from the State at large?
Those voting in favor of the question shall deposit a ballot with a check or cross mark in the square after the word `Yes', and those voting against the question shall deposit a ballot with a check or cross mark in the square after the word `No'."