A bill

 

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:

 

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-37-00-14S-37-00-24, maintained by the Office of Research and Statistics of the State Budget and Control BoardRevenue and Fiscal Affairs.

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

 

31	District	Pop	Dev.	%Dev.	NH_WHT	%NH_WHT	NH_BLK	%NH_BLK
32	1	3,508	46	1.33%	1,261	35.95%	2,116	60.32%
33	2	3,519	57	1.65%	2,101	59.70%	1,051	29.87%
34	3	3,551	89	2.57%	1,281	36.07%	2,107	59.34%
35	4	2,548	86	2.48%	2,700	76.10%	630	17.76%
36	5	3,381	-81	-2.34%	1,275	37.71%	2,039	60.31%
37	6	3,469	7	0.20%	2,888	83.25%	489	14.10%
38	7	3,257	-205	-5.92%	3,012	92.48%	129	3.96%
39	Total	24,233			14,518		8,561

 

41

District

VAP

NHWVAP

%NHWVAP

NHBVAP

%NHBVAP

AllOth

AllOthVAP

1	1	2,645	1,005	38.00%	1,547	58.49%	131	93
2	2	2,722	1,652	60.69%	722	28.36%	367	298
3	3	2,605	981	37.66%	1,519	58.31%	163	105
4	4	2,779	2,156	77.58%	467	16.80%	218	156
5	5	2,629	1,051	39.98%	1,531	58.24%	67	47
6	6	2,614	2,223	85.04%	324	12.39%	92	67
7	7	2,480	2,307	93.02%	91	3.67%	116	82
8	Total	18,474	11,375		6,251		1,154	848

 

10	District	Pop	Dev.	%Dev.	Hisp.	%Hisp	NH Wht	%NH Wht
11	1	3,230	-142	-4.21%	255	7.89%	1,101	34.09%
12	2	3,209	-163	-4.83%	208	6.48%	2,067	64.41%
13	3	3,445	73	2.16%	205	5.95%	1,363	39.56%
14	4	3,520	148	4.39%	164	4.66%	2,703	76.79%
15	5	3,252	-120	-3.56%	46	1.41%	1,309	40.25%
16	6	3,483	111	3.29%	125	3.59%	2,630	75.51%
17	7	3,465	93	2.76%	91	2.63%	3,106	89.64%
18	Total	23,604			1,094		14,279

 

20	District	NH Blk	%NH Blk	VAP.	%VAP	HVAP	%HVAP
21	1	1,790	55.42%	2,596	80.37%	198	7.63%
22	2	855	26.64%	2,588	80.65%	164	6.34%
23	3	1,771	51.41%	2,736	79.42%	117	4.28%
24	4	527	14.97%	2,847	80.88%	105	3.69%
25	5	1,795	55.20%	2,551	78.44%	31	1.22%
26	6	535	15.36%	2,696	77.40%	94	3.49%
27	7	91	2.63%	2,715	78.36%	53	1.95%
28	Total	7,364		18,729		762

 

30	District	WVAP	%WVAP	BVAP	%BVAP
31	1	932	35.90%	1,403	54.04%
32	2	1,689	65.26%	673	26.00%
33	3	1,110	40.57%	1,439	52.60%
34	4	2,232	78.40%	412	14.47%
35	5	1,051	41.20%	1,404	55.04%

1	6	2,068	76.71%	384	14.24%
2	7	2,487	91.60%	67	2.47%
3	Total	11,569		5,782

 

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 20142026, 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 20142026, 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 20162024, at which time their successors must be elected for four year terms in nonpartisan elections to be conducted at the same time as the 20162024 general election to be held in the manner provided in this act.

    (D) Each Membersmember of the Edgefield County School District Board of Trustees must be a residentsresident and qualified electors elector of the single-member districts district from which he is elected, and must be elected by all of the qualified electors of the district. All members of the board shall serve until their successors are elected and qualify.

 

SECTION 3.   This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

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