South Carolina General Assembly
120th Session, 2013-2014

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A305, R289, S1329

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General Bill
Sponsors: Senator Massey
Document Path: l:\council\bills\ggs\22649zw14.docx

Introduced in the Senate on May 27, 2014
Introduced in the House on May 29, 2014
Last Amended on June 3, 2014
Passed by the General Assembly on June 4, 2014
Governor's Action: June 6, 2014, Signed

Summary: Edgefield County School District Board of Trustees

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

     Date      Body   Action Description with journal page number
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   5/27/2014  Senate  Introduced, read first time, placed on local & 
                        uncontested calendar (Senate Journal-page 3)
   5/28/2014  Senate  Amended (Senate Journal-page 41)
   5/28/2014  Senate  Read second time (Senate Journal-page 41)
   5/28/2014  Senate  Unanimous consent for third reading on next legislative 
                        day (Senate Journal-page 41)
   5/29/2014  Senate  Read third time and sent to House
   5/29/2014  House   Introduced and read first time (House Journal-page 11)
   5/29/2014  House   Referred to Edgefield Delegation (House Journal-page 11)
   5/29/2014          Scrivener's error corrected
   5/29/2014  House   Recalled from Edgefield Delegation 
                        (House Journal-page 62)
    6/3/2014  House   Amended (House Journal-page 14)
    6/3/2014  House   Read second time (House Journal-page 14)
    6/3/2014  House   Roll call Yeas-63  Nays-0 (House Journal-page 16)
    6/4/2014  House   Read third time and returned to Senate with amendments 
                        (House Journal-page 7)
    6/4/2014  Senate  Concurred in House amendment and enrolled 
                        (Senate Journal-page 12)
    6/5/2014          Ratified R 289
    6/6/2014          Signed By Governor
   6/13/2014          Effective date 06/06/14
    9/8/2014          Act No. 305

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL

5/27/2014
5/27/2014-A
5/28/2014
5/29/2014
5/29/2014-A
6/3/2014


(Text matches printed bills. Document has been reformatted to meet World Wide Web specifications.)

(A305, R289, S1329)

AN ACT TO AMEND ACT 595 OF 1992, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE EDGEFIELD COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, SO AS TO REAPPORTION THE SEVEN SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICTS FROM WHICH THE TRUSTEES ARE ELECTED BEGINNING WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT ELECTIONS IN 2014, TO DESIGNATE A MAP NUMBER ON WHICH THESE ELECTION DISTRICTS ARE DELINEATED, TO PROVIDE DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION PERTAINING TO THE REAPPORTIONED ELECTION DISTRICTS, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE TERMS AND MANNER OF ELECTION OF TRUSTEES.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

Edgefield County School District election districts reapportioned

SECTION    1.    Section 1 of Act 595 of 1992, as last amended by Act 418 of 2006, is amended to read:

"Section    1.    (A)    The Edgefield County School District must be composed of seven single-member districts from which members of the board of trustees of the district must be elected beginning with the next general election for school trustees by the qualified electors of that district as delineated on map number S-37-00-14, maintained by the Office of Research and Statistics of the State Budget and Control Board.

(B)    The demographic information shown on this map is as follows:

District    Pop        Dev.    %Dev.    NH_WHT        %NH_WHT        NH_BLK        %NH_BLK

1        3,508        46        1.33%        1,261                35.95%        2,116            60.32%

2        3,519        57        1.65%        2,101                59.70%        1,051            29.87%

3        3,551        89        2.57%        1,281                36.07%        2,107            59.34%

4        3,548        86        2.48%        2,700                76.10%            630            17.76%

5        3,381        -81        -2.34%        1,275                37.71%        2,039            60.31%

6        3,469        7        0.20%        2,888                83.25%            489            14.10%

7        3,257    -205        -5.92%        3,012                92.48%            129            3.96%

Total    24,233                                14,518                            8,561

District    VAP    NHWVAP    %NHWVAP    NHBVAP    %NHBVAP    AllOth    AllOthVAP

1        2,645    1,005        38.00%            1,547            58.49%        131            93

2        2,722    1,652        60.69%            772            28.36%        367            298

3        2,605        981        37.66%            1,519            58.31%        163            105

4        2,779    2,156        77.58%            467            16.80%        218            156

5        2,629    1,051        39.98%            1,531            58.24%        67            47

6        2,614    2,223        85.04%            324            12.39%        92            67

7        2,480    2,307        93.02%                91            3.67%        116            82

Total        18,474    11,375                            6,251                        1,154            848"

Current members

SECTION    2.    Section 3 of Act 595 of 1992 is amended to read:

"SECTION    3.    (A)    Beginning in 2014, successors to the incumbent members representing single-member Districts 1 and 2 on the Edgefield County School District Board of Trustees must be elected for terms of four years in nonpartisan elections to be conducted at the same time as the general election of that year to be held in the manner provided in this act.

(B)    Beginning in 2014, a member representing single-member District 6 on the Edgefield County School District Board of Trustees must be elected for a term of four years in the nonpartisan elections to be conducted at the same time as the general election of that year to be held in the manner provided in this act.

(C)    The incumbent members representing single-member Districts 3, 4, 5, and 7 on the Edgefield County School District Board of Trustees shall continue to represent these districts until the expiration of their current terms in 2016, at which time their successors must be elected for four year terms in nonpartisan elections to be conducted at the same time as the 2016 general election to be held in the manner provided in this act.

(D)    Members of the Edgefield County School District Board of Trustees must be residents and qualified electors of the single-member districts and must be elected by all of the qualified electors of the district. All members of the board shall serve until their successors are elected and qualify."

Time effective

SECTION    3.    This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

Ratified the 5th day of June, 2014.

Approved the 6th day of June, 2014.

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