South Carolina General Assembly
121st Session, 2015-2016

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A99, R75, H4082

STATUS INFORMATION

General Bill
Sponsors: Reps. Knight, Jefferson, Murphy, Horne, Whipper, Tinkler and Mack
Document Path: l:\council\bills\ggs\22736zw15.docx

Introduced in the House on April 28, 2015
Introduced in the Senate on May 4, 2015
Passed by the General Assembly on May 21, 2015
Governor's Action: June 1, 2015, Signed

Summary: Dorchester County School District Board of Trustees

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

     Date      Body   Action Description with journal page number
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   4/28/2015  House   Introduced, read first time, placed on local & 
                        uncontested calendar (House Journal-page 144)
   4/29/2015  House   Read second time (House Journal-page 8)
   4/29/2015  House   Roll call Yeas-60  Nays-0 (House Journal-page 8)
   4/29/2015          Scrivener's error corrected
   4/29/2015  House   Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Mack
   4/30/2015  House   Read third time and sent to Senate (House Journal-page 5)
    5/4/2015  Senate  Introduced, read first time, placed on local & 
                        uncontested calendar (Senate Journal-page 13)
   5/20/2015  Senate  Read second time (Senate Journal-page 14)
   5/20/2015  Senate  Unanimous consent for third reading on next legislative 
                        day (Senate Journal-page 14)
   5/21/2015  Senate  Read third time and enrolled (Senate Journal-page 13)
   5/28/2015          Ratified R 75
    6/1/2015          Signed By Governor
    6/4/2015          Effective date 06/01/15
   8/17/2015          Act No. 99

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL

4/28/2015
4/28/2015-A
4/29/2015
5/4/2015


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

(A99, R75, H4082)

AN ACT TO AMEND ACT 536 OF 1986, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO DORCHESTER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUR BOARD OF TRUSTEES, SO AS TO REAPPORTION THE SPECIFIC ELECTION DISTRICTS FROM WHICH MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES MUST BE ELECTED BEGINNING WITH SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS IN 2016, TO DESIGNATE THE MAP NUMBER ON WHICH THESE DISTRICTS MAY BE FOUND, AND TO PROVIDE DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION REGARDING THE REAPPORTIONED ELECTION DISTRICTS.

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

Dorchester County School District Four reapportioned

SECTION    1.    Section 1A of Act 536 of 1986, as added by Act 592 of 1992, is amended by deleting Section 1A in its entirety and inserting:

"Section 1A.    (1)    Beginning with school district elections in 2016, the five single-member election districts from which members of the Dorchester County School District Four Board of Trustees must be elected are as shown on the Dorchester County School District Four Board of Trustees map S-35-04-15 as maintained by the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office. Candidates offering for election to single-member districts 1, 2, and 3 shall stand for election in 2016, and candidates offering for election to single-member districts 4 and 5 shall stand for election in 2018.

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

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

1        3,195        14        0.44%            1,344            42.07%        1,778        55.65%

2        3,206        25        0.79%            1,304            40.67%        1,821        56.80%

3        3,217        36        1.13%            2,047            63.63%        1,060        32.95%

4        3,214        33        1.04%            1,475            45.89%        1,614        50.22%

5        3,072    -109    -3.43%            1,805            58.76%        922        30.01%

Total        15,904                                    7,975                            7,195

District    VAP        NHWVAP    %NHWVAP    NHBVAP %NHBVAP AllOth    AllOthVAP

1        2,477            1,058            42.71%            1,369            55.27%    73            50

2        2,487            1,019            40.97%            1,411            56.74%    81            57

3        2,512            1,644            65.45%            799            31.81%    110            69

4        2,414            1,142            47.31%            1,192            49.38%    125            80

5        2,376            1,450            61.03%            676            28.45%    345            250

Total    12,266            6,313                                5,447                        734            506"

Time effective

SECTION    2.    This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

Ratified the 28th day of May, 2015.

Approved the 1st day of June, 2015.

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