South Carolina General Assembly
125th Session, 2023-2024

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A237, R202, S1292

STATUS INFORMATION

General Bill
Sponsors: Senator Massey
Document Path: LC-0452HDB24.docx

Introduced in the Senate on April 25, 2024
Introduced in the House on May 1, 2024
Currently residing in the Senate
Governor's Action: May 20, 2024, Signed

Summary: Edgefield County School District Board of Trustees

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

Date Body Action Description with journal page number
4/25/2024 Senate Introduced, read first time, placed on local & uncontested calendar (Senate Journal-page 5)
4/25/2024 Senate Unanimous consent for second reading on next legislative day (Senate Journal-page 5)
4/26/2024 Senate Read second time (Senate Journal-page 2)
4/30/2024 Senate Read third time and sent to House (Senate Journal-page 9)
5/1/2024 Scrivener's error corrected
5/1/2024 House Introduced and read first time (House Journal-page 8)
5/1/2024 House Referred to Edgefield Delegation (House Journal-page 8)
5/2/2024 House Delegation report: Favorable Edgefield Delegation (House Journal-page 2)
5/7/2024 House Read second time (House Journal-page 14)
5/7/2024 House Roll call Yeas-97 Nays-0 (House Journal-page 14)
5/8/2024 House Read third time and enrolled (House Journal-page 4)
5/15/2024 Ratified R 202
5/20/2024 Signed By Governor
5/29/2024 Effective date 05/20/2024
7/23/2024 Act No. 237

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL

04/25/2024
04/25/2024-A
05/01/2024
05/02/2024

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

(A237, R202, S1292)

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 2024, TO REDESIGNATE THE MAP NUMBER ON WHICH THESE ELECTION DISTRICTS ARE DELINEATED, AND TO PROVIDE DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION PERTAINING TO THE REAPPORTIONED ELECTION DISTRICTS.

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

Board of trustees

SECTION 1.    SECTION 1 of Act 595 of 1992, as last amended by Act 305 of 2014, is further 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-37-00-24, maintained by the Office of Revenue and Fiscal Affairs.

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

District    Pop    Dev.    %Dev.    Hisp.    %Hisp    NH Wht    %NH Wht

1    3,230    -142    -4.21%    255    7.89%    1,101    34.09%

2    3,209    -163    -4.83%    208    6.48%    2,067    64.41%

3    3,445    73    2.16%    205    5.95%    1,363    39.56%

4    3,520    148    4.39%    164    4.66%    2,703    76.79%

5    3,252    -120    -3.56%    46    1.41%    1,309    40.25%

6    3,483    111    3.29%    125    3.59%    2,630    75.51%

7    3,465    93    2.76%    91    2.63%    3,106    89.64%

Total    23,604            1,094        14,279

District    NH Blk    %NH Blk    VAP    %VAP    HVAP    %HVAP

1    1,790    55.42%    2,596    80.37%    198    7.63%

2    855    26.64%    2,588    80.65%    164    6.34%

3    1,771    51.41%    2,736    79.42%    117    4.28%

4    527    14.97%    2,847    80.88%    105    3.69%

5    1,795    55.20%    2,551    78.44%    31    1.22%

6    535    15.36%    2,696    77.40%    94    3.49%

7    91    2.63%    2,715    78.36%    53    1.95%

Total    7,364        18,729        762

District    WVAP    %WVAP    BVAP    %BVAP

1    932    35.90%    1,403    54.04%

2    1,689    65.26%    673    26.00%

3    1,110    40.57%    1,439    52.60%

4    2,232    78.40%    412    14.47%

5    1,051    41.20%    1,404    55.04%

6    2,068    76.71%    384    14.24%

7    2,487    91.60%    67    2.47%

Total    11,569        5,782

Terms of office

SECTION 2.    SECTION 3 of Act 595 of 1992, as amended by Act 305 of 2014, is further amended to read:

SECTION 3. (A) Beginning in 2026, 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 2026, 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 2024, at which time their successors must be elected for four-year terms in nonpartisan elections to be conducted at the same time as the 2024 General Election to be held in the manner provided in this act.

(D) Each member of the Edgefield County School District Board of Trustees must be a resident and qualified elector of the single-member district from which he is elected, and must be elected by 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 15th day of May, 2024.

Approved the 20th day of May, 2024.

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