South Carolina General Assembly
125th Session, 2023-2024

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R175, H5267

STATUS INFORMATION

General Bill
Sponsors: Rep. Forrest
Document Path: LC-0418HDB24.docx

Introduced in the House on March 13, 2024
Introduced in the Senate on March 26, 2024
Currently residing in the House
Governor's Action: May 13, 2024, Signed

Summary: Saluda County School Board, reapportioned

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

Date Body Action Description with journal page number
3/13/2024 House Introduced and read first time (House Journal-page 9)
3/13/2024 House Referred to Saluda Delegation (House Journal-page 9)
3/20/2024 House Delegation report: Unfavorable Saluda Delegation (House Journal-page 9)
3/21/2024 House Read second time (House Journal-page 23)
3/21/2024 House Roll call Yeas-91 Nays-0 (House Journal-page 23)
3/21/2024 House Unanimous consent for third reading on next legislative day (House Journal-page 24)
3/22/2024 House Read third time and sent to Senate (House Journal-page 1)
3/26/2024 Senate Introduced, read first time, placed on local & uncontested calendar (Senate Journal-page 16)
3/27/2024 Scrivener's error corrected
4/25/2024 Senate Read second time (Senate Journal-page 15)
4/30/2024 Senate Read third time and enrolled (Senate Journal-page 9)
5/8/2024 Ratified R 175
5/13/2024 Signed By Governor

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL

03/13/2024
03/20/2024
03/26/2024

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

NOTE: THIS IS A TEMPORARY VERSION. THIS DOCUMENT WILL REMAIN IN THIS VERSION UNTIL FINAL APPROVAL BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

(R175, H5267)

AN ACT TO AMEND ACT 307 OF 2012, RELATING TO THE ELECTION DISTRICTS FROM WHICH CERTAIN MEMBERS OF THE SALUDA COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT MUST BE ELECTED, SO AS TO REAPPORTION THESE DISTRICTS, TO PROVIDE DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION IN REGARD TO THESE DISTRICTS, AND TO UPDATE THE MAP NUMBER ON WHICH THESE DISTRICTS ARE DELINEATED.

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

Trustee elections

SECTION 1.    Act 307 of 2012 is amended to read:

(1) Notwithstanding another provision of law, beginning with school trustee elections in 2024, successors to the seven members of the governing body of the Saluda County School District who are elected from defined single-member election districts must be elected in the manner provided by law from one of the applicable single-member election districts of the seven defined single-member election districts as shown on the Saluda County School District Map S-81-00-24 as maintained in the Office of Revenue and Fiscal Affairs.

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

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

1    2,022    -56    -2.69%    207    10.24%    779    38.53%

2    2,157    79    3.80%    507    23.50%    1,233    57.16%

3    1,994    -84    -4.04%    249    12.49%    1,420    71.21%

4    2,113    35    1.68%    965    45.67%    911    43.11%

5    2,003    -75    -3.61%    609    30.40%    409    20.42%

6    2,166    88    4.23%    76    3.51%    1,963    90.63%

7    2,088    10    0.48%    67    3.21%    1,941    92.96%

Total    14,543            2,680        8,656

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

1    1,005    49.70%    1,595    78.88%    117    7.34%

2    384    17.80%    1,588    73.62%    291    18.32%

3    266    13.34%    1,542    77.33%    152    9.86%

4    195    9.23%    1,467    69.43%    526    35.86%

5    945    47.18%    1,489    74.34%    364    24.45%

6    76    3.51%    1,830    84.49%    42    2.30%

7    29    1.39%    1,766    84.58%    46    2.60%

Total    2,900        11,277        1,538

District    WVAP    %WVAP    BVAP    %BVAP

1    641    40.19%    815    51.10%

2    1,000    62.97%    273    17.19%

3    1,150    74.58%    199    12.91%

4    767    52.28%    145    9.88%

5    353    23.71%    745    50.03%

6    1,689    92.30%    60    3.28%

7    1,662    94.11%    21    1.19%

Total    7,262        2,258

(3) The boundaries of the Saluda County School District are not altered by the provisions of this subsection. These school district lines are as defined by law and any census blocks that may be divided are done so only for statistical purposes and to establish a population base.

Time effective

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

Ratified the 8th day of May, 2024.

Approved the 13th day of May, 2024. -- L.

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