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A198, R31, H3460
STATUS INFORMATION
General Bill
Sponsors: Reps. Bailey, Chellis, Harrell and Young
Document Path: l:\council\bills\pt\2316sj05.doc
Introduced in the House on February 3, 2005
Introduced in the Senate on February 9, 2005
Passed by the General Assembly on February 16, 2005
Governor's Action: March 22, 2005, Signed
Summary: Vocational Education Board
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
Date Body Action Description with journal page number
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2/3/2005 House Introduced, read first time, placed on calendar without
reference HJ-15
2/8/2005 House Read second time HJ-9
2/9/2005 House Read third time and sent to Senate HJ-18
2/9/2005 Senate Introduced, read first time, placed on local &
uncontested calendar SJ-17
2/10/2005 Senate Read second time SJ-21
2/10/2005 Scrivener's error corrected
2/16/2005 Senate Read third time and enrolled SJ-12
3/17/2005 Ratified R 31
3/22/2005 Signed By Governor
3/28/2005 Copies available
3/28/2005 Effective date 03/22/05
7/20/2005 Act No. 198
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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
2/3/2005
2/3/2005-A
2/9/2005
2/10/2005
(A198, R31, H3460)
AN ACT TO AMEND ACT 1627 OF 1972, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE DORCHESTER COUNTY VOCATIONAL EDUCATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES, SO AS TO CHANGE REFERENCES FROM DORCHESTER VOCATIONAL EDUCATION TO DORCHESTER COUNTY CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER AND TO UPDATE LANGUAGE, TO PROVIDE THAT THE TWO MEMBERS APPOINTED FROM THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS MUST NOT BE VOTING MEMBERS BUT SHALL SERVE EX OFFICIO, AND TO PROVIDE THAT THE OPERATIONAL BUDGET MUST BE SUBMITTED TO THE DORCHESTER COUNTY COUNCIL.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
Dorchester County Career and Technology Center Board of Trustees
SECTION 1. Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of Act 1627 of 1972, as last amended by Act 363 of 2004, is further amended to read:
"Section 1. There is created in Dorchester County the Dorchester County Career and Technology Center Board of Trustees, which must be a body politic and corporate, and which shall consist of seven members as follows:
(1) one member of the board must be appointed from each of the two school districts in Dorchester County by a majority of the board of trustees of the district from the membership of the board, and these two members must not be voting members but shall serve ex officio;
(2) five members must be appointed by a majority of the Dorchester County Legislative Delegation.
Members shall serve for a term of three years and until their successors are appointed and qualify, except that of those initially appointed, the members appointed by the school districts shall serve for terms of two years and until their successors are appointed and qualify. Vacancies on the board of trustees must be filled in the manner of the original appointment for the unexpired portion of the term only.
Section 2. As soon as possible after the approval of this act, the board shall organize by electing one of its members as chairman, one as vice chairman, and one as secretary. The chairmanship and vice chairmanship must rotate among the two school districts each two years and the chairman always must be from one of the districts and the vice chairman from one of the other. This organization shall provide that, in order to have a quorum at a meeting of the commission, at least four members of the board must be present, that each member present, including the chairman, shall have one vote and that the majority vote shall rule. Transcripts of the record of the organization must be filed with the secretary and administrative officer of the State Board of Education, with the county board of education of Dorchester County, and with the board of trustees of each of the school districts of Dorchester County.
Section 3. The board shall adopt organizational and administrative procedures as may be necessary further to develop, maintain, manage, and operate the facilities and programs, in addition to the following:
(a) The legal title to real and personal property acquired before and after the effective date of this act for the career and technology center facilities and programs must be held by Dorchester County for the benefit of the two school districts of the county, and each of the districts shall have an equity in the joint assets to the extent that the assessed tax value of the property within the school district bears to the aggregate assessed tax value of the property within the combined area of the districts.
(b) The procedures by which career and technology funds appropriated by the federal, state, or county government may be applied for and received for the benefit of the facilities and programs so operated must be the procedures that are required by the particular government making the appropriation or appropriations involved, and the applications must be executed by the chairman, or the vice chairman, and the secretary of the board and by the career and technology center director of the area, and the funds must be received by the board and the career and technology center director.
(c) Each operational budget prepared by the board and by the board of trustees of the two school districts of the county must be submitted to the Dorchester County Council for approval and in conjunction with their requests for tax levies.
(d) Subject to the provisions of this act and the provisions of Act 830 of 1966, the board shall have, in relation to the property, facilities, and programs, the general powers and duties of school trustees pursuant to the general laws of the State.
(e) The board is authorized to employ a career and technology center director as the administrative official of the facilities and programs under the control of the board and he must be responsible to the board.
(f) Subject to the approval of the board, each of the school districts shall have full authority to determine which pupils from its own district must be included in its quota of pupils enrolled at the career and technology center. For each year of operation of the center after July 1, 1972, each of the districts may enroll in the center a number of pupils from its own district up to but not exceeding the proportion which the total enrollment in the top three grades in its district bears to the total enrollment in the top three grades in the districts combined and as the proportion is applied to the student body capacity of the center. If a district does not enroll in the center its full share of pupils for a year, the other districts may enroll additional pupils from its district up to, but not exceeding, the number necessary to bring the student body of the center up to capacity.
Section 4. The Dorchester County Council may issue general obligation bonds of the county in an amount not to exceed one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars or a portion of that amount as may be necessary to provide, along with other available funds, for the construction and equipping of a career and technology center in accordance with the provisions of this act. The proceeds derived from the sale of these bonds must be disposed of as follows:
(a) Accrued interest must be applied to the payment of the first installment of interest to become due on these bonds.
(b) A premium must be applied to the payment of the first installment of principal of these bonds.
(c) The remaining proceeds must be retained by the council and must be used to defray the cost of constructing and equipping the facilities described in this act."
Time effective
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
Ratified the 17th day of March, 2005.
Approved the 22nd day of March, 2005.
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