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Current Status Bill Number:View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.3812 Type of Legislation:Joint Resolution JR Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:19990331 Primary Sponsor:Loftis All Sponsors:Loftis, Cato, Hamilton, Haskins, Leach, Tripp and Vaughn Drafted Document Number:l:\council\bills\bbm\9176som99.doc Residing Body:Senate Date Tabled:19990415 Subject:Greenville County School District Trustees, partisan election of History Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ ______________________________________ _______ ____________ Senate 19990415 Tabled Senate 19990415 Introduced, read first time House 19990414 Read third time, sent to Senate House 19990413 Read second time House 19990408 Request for debate withdrawn by Representative Allison Littlejohn Cato Hamilton Walker Easterday Lee Leach Haskins Loftis Davenport Vaughn Tripp Miller House 19990407 Request for debate by Representative Walker Cobb-Hunter McMahand Littlejohn Allison Davenport Miller W. McLeod Lloyd Ott Easterday Tripp Cato Haskins Vaughn Hamilton Loftis Leach Lee House 19990331 Recalled from Committee 21 HEPW House 19990331 Introduced, read first time, 21 HEPW referred to Committee Versions of This Bill Revised on March 31, 1999 - Word format
RECALLED
March 31, 1999
H. 3812
Introduced by Reps. Loftis, Cato, Hamilton, Haskins, Leach, Tripp and Vaughn
S. Printed 3/31/99--H.
Read the first time March 31, 1999.
TO PROVIDE FOR A REFERENDUM IN THE GREENVILLE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT TO BE HELD AT THE SAME TIME AS THE 2000 GENERAL ELECTION TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THE QUALIFIED VOTERS OF THE GREENVILLE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FAVOR ELECTING THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IN PARTISAN ELECTIONS BEGINNING WITH THE GENERAL ELECTION OF 2002; TO PROVIDE THAT IF THE CERTIFIED RESULTS OF THE REFERENDUM FAVOR THE ELECTION OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES IN PARTISAN ELECTIONS, THAT THE ELECTION OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES CONDUCTED AT THE SAME TIME AS THE GENERAL ELECTION OF 2002 WILL BE PARTISAN; TO PROVIDE THAT IF THE CERTIFIED RESULTS OF THE REFERENDUM FAVOR PARTISAN ELECTIONS, SECTION 1 OF ACT 521 OF 1992 IS REPEALED UPON CERTIFICATION OF THE RESULTS OF THAT REFERENDUM, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE STRUCTURE AND PROCEDURE FOR ELECTION OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE GREENVILLE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FROM THAT DATE ON.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. (A) A binding referendum must be held at the same time as the 2000 general election in the Greenville County School District on the question of whether or not the qualified electors of the district favor partisan elections of the trustees of the board. The referendum for this purpose must be conducted by the Greenville County Election Commission at the same time as the 2000 general election. The county commissioners of election shall conduct and supervise the referendum in the manner governed by the election laws of this State, mutatis mutandis. The commissioners shall frame the question for the ballot, prepare the necessary ballots, appoint managers for the voting precincts, and do all things necessary to carry out the referendum, including the counting of ballots and declaring the results. The commissioners shall advertise the date of the referendum sixty days preceding it in a newspaper of general circulation in the district and shall publish a second notice thirty days before the referendum. The cost of the referendum shall be paid by the school district.
(B) The question put before the qualified electors of the district at the 2000 general election shall read:
"Do you favor electing the members of the Board of Trustees of the Greenville County School District in partisan elections beginning with the general election in the year 2002?
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'."
SECTION 2. Section 1 of Act 521 of 1992 is repealed upon certification of a majority "yes" vote in the referendum held pursuant to Section 1 of this joint resolution.
SECTION 3. Beginning with the 2002 election, the Board of Trustees of the Greenville County School District consists of twelve members who must be elected in partisan elections to be held in the manner as provided by law. One member of the board must be a resident of and elected from each of the twelve defined single-member election districts established in Section 2 of Act 521 of 1992. In the 2002 election, members of the board must be elected from the odd-numbered districts for four-year terms. Thereafter, their successors also must be elected for four-year terms. The members of the board who reside in the even-numbered districts shall continue to be members of the board representing these respective districts until 2004 at which time they or their successors shall be elected for four-year terms. All members of the board shall serve until their successors are elected and qualify. In the event of a vacancy on the board occurring for any reason other than expiration of a term, the board shall call a special election to fill the unexpired term, so long as the vacancy does not occur within ten months of a regular trustee election. In this case, the vacancy must be filled for the unexpired term or for a full term as appropriate at the next regular election.
Each member of the board must be elected by the qualified electors of that district. Candidates must be elected at the time of the general election according to the provisions of Title 7 of the 1976 Code, mutatis mutandis.
The county commissioners of election shall conduct and supervise the elections for members of the board in the manner governed by the election laws of this State, mutatis mutandis. The commissioners shall prepare the necessary ballots, appoint managers for the voting precincts, and do all things necessary to carry out the elections, including the counting of ballots and declaring the results. The commissioners shall advertise the date of the election ninety days preceding the election in a newspaper of general circulation published in the district and shall publish a second notice thirty days before the election. The costs of the election must be borne by the school district.
The candidate receiving the highest number of the votes in each district in the election must be declared elected.
The members of the board elected in these partisan elections shall take office one week following certification of their election as provided in Section 59-19-315 of the 1976 Code.
Except for those members of the board from the even-numbered districts who shall continue to serve until 2004 as provided by this section, the current members of the board shall continue to be selected and serve as provided by law until the members elected in the 2002 election qualify and take office, at which time the then current terms of the present members of the board shall expire.
SECTION 4. In the event of a vacancy occurring on the board of trustees of the Greenville County School District from the certification of a favorable vote in the referendum held at the general election in 2000 until ten months before the regular trustee election in 2002, the board shall call a special nonpartisan election to fill the unexpired term. In the event of a vacancy occurring in the ten months before the 2002 election, the vacancy must be filled for the unexpired term or for a full term as appropriate at the 2002 election. The county commissioners of election shall conduct and supervise the special election in the manner governed by the election laws of the State, mutatis mutandis.
SECTION 5. Section 1 takes effect upon approval by the Governor. The remaining sections take effect only upon certification of a majority "yes" vote in the referendum held pursuant to Section 1.
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