2007-2008 Bill 3782: Pickens County School Board of Trustees

South Carolina General Assembly
117th Session, 2007-2008

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A153, R139, H3782

STATUS INFORMATION

General Bill
Sponsors: Reps. Rice, Hiott and Owens
Document Path: l:\council\bills\gjk\20243sd07.doc

Introduced in the House on March 27, 2007
Introduced in the Senate on May 29, 2007
Last Amended on May 23, 2007
Passed by the General Assembly on June 1, 2007
Governor's Action: June 13, 2007, Signed

Summary: Pickens County School Board of Trustees

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

     Date      Body   Action Description with journal page number
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   3/27/2007  House   Introduced and read first time HJ-8
   3/27/2007  House   Referred to Pickens Delegation HJ-8
   5/22/2007  House   Delegation report: Favorable Pickens Delegation HJ-4
   5/23/2007  House   Amended HJ-25
   5/23/2007  House   Read second time HJ-28
   5/23/2007  House   Roll call Yeas-3  Nays-1 HJ-28
   5/24/2007  House   Read third time and sent to Senate HJ-27
   5/24/2007          Scrivener's error corrected
   5/29/2007  Senate  Introduced, read first time, placed on local & 
                        uncontested calendar SJ-10
   5/31/2007  Senate  Read second time SJ-64
   5/31/2007  Senate  Unanimous consent for third reading on next legislative 
                        day SJ-64
    6/1/2007  Senate  Read third time and enrolled SJ-1
    6/7/2007          Ratified R 139
   6/13/2007          Signed By Governor
   6/15/2007          Scrivener's error corrected
   6/18/2007          Copies available
   6/18/2007          Effective date 06/13/07
   7/30/2007          Act No. 153

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL

3/27/2007
5/22/2007
5/23/2007
5/24/2007
5/29/2007

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

(A153, R139, H3782)

AN ACT TO AMEND ACT 260 OF 1981, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE PICKENS COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD OF TRUSTEES, SO AS TO REVISE THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE BOARD TO SIX FOUR-YEAR SEATS, EACH OF WHICH IS ELECTED FROM A SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICT, TO PROVIDE FOR THE TERMINATIONS OF EXISTING AT-LARGE SEATS, TO PROVIDE THAT THE BOARD ELECT ITS CHAIRMAN, TO PROVIDE FOR A SPECIAL ELECTION TO FILL A SEAT VACATED BEFORE THE END OF ITS TERM, AND TO MAKE CONFORMING CHANGES.

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

Pickens County School Board of Trustees

SECTION 1. Section 1 of Act 260 of 1981, as last amended by Act 182 of 1995, is further amended to read:

"Section 1. Notwithstanding another provision of law, the Public Educational System of Pickens County is directed and managed by the Board of Trustees of the School District of Pickens County. The board must be comprised of six members, all of whom must be qualified electors from each of the districts for which members of the county governing body of Pickens County are elected. A current at-large member holding Seat 7, 8, or 9 shall continue to serve until his term is ended or he vacates the at-large seat for whatever reason, whichever occurs first. Upon the end of the term or the earlier vacation of the at-large seat, that at-large seat no longer exists. Only those electors residing in the particular district are eligible to vote for each of the six single-member trustees representing the district. The current trustees from the single-member districts shall continue to serve until their four-year terms expire and until their successors are elected and qualify.

All members of the board of trustees must be elected in a nonpartisan election at the time of the general election in the year in which their terms expire.

Upon the termination of the term of each single-member district trustee, his successor must be a qualified elector of the same district and must be elected in a nonpartisan election to be held at the same time as the general election preceding the expiration date by the qualified electors of the district for a term of four years and until his successor is elected and qualifies. If a single-member district seat is vacated before the end of its term, the seat must be filled for the remainder of the term by way of a special election conducted in the same manner. The board of trustees shall elect a chairman and such other officers as it considers necessary."

Conduct of trustee elections

SECTION 2. Section 1A. of Act 260 of 1981, as last amended by Act 152 of 2001, is further amended to read:

"Section 1A. All persons desiring to qualify as a candidate shall file written notice of their candidacy with the county registration and elections commission as prescribed by Section 7-13-352 of the 1976 Code. A notice of candidacy shall not be filed earlier than August first, or if August first falls on a Sunday, not earlier than the following Monday; except that, in the case of a special election to fill a vacated seat, the commission shall set the appropriate filing date. This notice of candidacy must be a sworn statement and shall include the candidate's name, age, voting precinct, single-member election district in which the candidate resides, period of residence in the single-member election district or school district as applicable, and any other information the county registration and elections commission requires.

At the time of filing written notice of his candidacy with the county registration and elections commission, a candidate also shall pay a filing fee equal to one percent of the total salary for the term of this office or one hundred dollars, whichever amount is greater. These filing fees must be used to offset the costs of the elections.

The county commissioners of registration and elections shall conduct and supervise all 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 sixty days preceding the election in the newspapers of general circulation published in Pickens County and shall publish a second notice two weeks thereafter. The cost of the elections is borne by Pickens County. The results of the election must be determined in accordance with the nonpartisan plurality method prescribed by Section 5-15-61 of the 1976 Code."

Repeal

SECTION 3. Sections 2 and 3 of Act 260 of 1981 are hereby repealed.

Time effective

SECTION 4. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

Ratified the 8th day of June, 2007.

Approved the 13th day of June, 2007.

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