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Committee Report

March 30, 2023

H. 4215

Introduced by Rep. Hyde

 

L. Printed 03/30/23--H.

Read the first time March 29, 2023

 

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The SPARTANBURG DELEGATION

To who was referred a Bill (H. 4215) to amend Act 106 of 2015, relating to the election districts from which members of the Spartanburg County School District 5 Board of Trustees must be elected, etc., respectfully

Report:

That they have duly and carefully considered the same, and recommend that the same do pass:

 

MAX T. HYDE, JR. for the Delegation.

 

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A bill

 

to amend act 106 of 2015, relating to the election districts from which members of the spartanburg county school district 5 board of trustees must be elected, so as to reapportion these election districts, to redesignate the map number on which these districts are delineated and maintained by the revenue and fiscal affairs office, and to provide demographic information regarding these revised election districts.

 

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

 

SECTION 1.  Act 106 of 2015 is amended to read:

 

    (A) Notwithstanding another provision of law, Spartanburg County School District 5 must be governed by a board of trustees of nine members, who must be elected as outlined in this section.  A trustee must be a resident of the election district from which he is elected.  Trustees must be elected for four-year terms and until their successors are elected and qualify.  School district elections must be held in odd numbered calendar years, with four seats being contested during one election cycle and five being contested during the following cycle.

    (B) Beginning with the school district elections in 20152023, the election districts from which the nine members of the Spartanburg County School District 5 Board of Trustees must be elected are as shown on the Spartanburg County School District 5 map S-83-05-15S-83-05-23 as maintained by the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office.

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

 

34	District	Pop.	Dev.	%Dev.	NH_WHT	%NH_WHT	NH_BLK	%NH_BLK
35	1	4,599	-53	-1.14%	1,600	34.79%	2,480	53.92%
36	2	9,259	-45	-0.48%	7,147	77.19%	1,424	15.38%
37	3	28,009	97	.35%	22,749	81.22%	3,085	11.01%
38	Total	41,867			31,496		6,989

 

40

District

VAP

NHWVAP

%NHWVAP

NHBVAP

%NHBVAP

AllOth

AllOthVAP

1	1	3,274	1,235	37.72%	1,753	53.54%	519	286
2	2	7,009	5,557	79.57%	997	14.22%	688	435
3	3	20,615	17,122	83.06%	2,105	10.21%	2,175	1,388
4	Total	30,898	23,934		4,855		3,382	2,109

 

6	District	Pop	Dev.	%Dev.	Hisp.	%Hisp.
7	1	5,807	-483	-7.68%	540	9.30%
8	2	12,706	126	1.00%	1,164	9.16%
9	3	38,104	364	0.96%	3,102	8.14%
10	Totals	56,617			4,806

 

12	District	NH White	%NH White	NH Black	%NH Black	VAP	%VAP
13	1	2,430	41.85%	2,621	45.14%	4,250	73.19%
14	2	8,491	66.83%	2,238	17.61%	9,331	73.44%
15	3	27,443	72.02%	5,225	13.71%	28,641	75.17%
16	Totals	38,364		10,084		42,222

 

18	District	HVAP	%HVAP	WVAP	%WVAP	BVAP	%BVAP
19	1	341	8.02%	1,883	44.31%	1,859	43.74%
20	2	691	7.41%	6,515	69.82%	1,592	17.06%
21	3	1,972	6.89%	21,261	74.23%	3,678	12.84%
22	Totals	3,004		29,659		7,129

 

    (D) After the effective date of this act:

       (1) Election District 1 for Spartanburg County School District 5 must be represented by a single trustee to be elected in the 2015 2023 school district elections who is elected by the registered voters who reside within Election District 1;

       (2) Election District 2 for Spartanburg County School District 5 must be represented by two trustees who are elected by the registered voters who reside within Election District 2.  One of these trustees must be elected in the 2015 2023 school district elections, and the second trustee must be elected in the 2017 2025 school district elections; and

       (3) Election District 3 for Spartanburg County School District 5 must be represented by six trustees who are elected by the registered voters who reside in Election District 3.  Two of these trustees must be elected in the 2015 2023 school district elections, at which the two candidates receiving the highest number of votes, irrespective of whether the actual result constitutes a majority of those voting, must   be declared elected.  Four additional trustees must be elected in the 2017 2025 school district elections,

at which the four candidates receiving the highest number of votes, irrespective of whether the actual result constitutes a majority of those voting, must be declared elected.

 

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

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