2023-2024 Bill 5153 Text of Previous Version (Feb. 28, 2024)

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Committee Report

February 28, 2024

H. 5153

Introduced by Reps. West, Thayer, Chapman, Beach, Gagnon and Cromer

L. Printed 02/28/24--H.

Read the first time February 27, 2024

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The anderson delegation

To whom was referred a Bill (H. 5153) to amend Act 509 of 1982, as amended, relating to the election of trustees of Anderson County School District 2, so as to replace the two multi-member districts, etc., respectfully

Report:

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

ANNE THAYER for the Delegation.

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A bill

TO AMEND ACT 509 OF 1982, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE ELECTION OF TRUSTEES OF ANDERSON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 2, SO AS TO REPLACE THE TWO MULTI-MEMBER DISTRICTS WITH FOUR SINGLE-MEMBER RESIDENCY AREAS AND TO REDESIGNATE THE MAP NUMBER ON WHICH THESE RESIDENCY AREAS ARE DELINEATED.

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

SECTION 1. SECTION 13A.(B) of Act 509 of 1982, as last amended by Act 300 of 2014, is amended to read:

(B)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, beginning with the school trustee elections in 2014, vacancies on the seven-member governing body of Anderson County School District 2 must be filledelected in the manner provided by law as follows:

(a) two one membersmember each from Districts 1 and 2, 5, and 6 must be elected beginning with school trustee elections in 2024 and one member each from Districts 3 and 4, the numbered districts being as defined on Anderson County School District 2 map S-07-02-14, as maintained in the Office of Research and Statistics of the State Budget and Control Board; and

(b) one member each from Districts 1, 3, and 4 must be elected beginning with school trustee elections in 2026; and

(b)(c) one member elected from Anderson County School District 2 at large.

A candidate for a numbered district seat must reside in the district for which the candidate files for election. Each of the seven members must be elected to four-year terms by the qualified electors of all of Anderson County School District 2 with the winners from each numbered district seat and the at-large seat determined by plurality vote. The numbered districts are defined on map number S-07-02-24 as maintained in the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office.

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

39	District	Pop.	Dev.	%Dev.	NH_WHT	%NH_WHT.	NH_BLK	%NH_BLK
40	1	7,464	0	0.00%	6,005	80.45%	1,247	16.71%

1	2	7,378	86	1.15%	6,325	85.73%	898	12.17%
2	3	3,776	44	1.18%	3,452	91.42%	263	6.97%
3	4	3,776	44	1.18%	2,635	69.78%	1,017	26.93%
4	Total	14,469			18,417		3,425

6	District	VAP	NHWVAP	%NHWVAP	NHBVAP	%NHBVAP	AllOth	AllOthVAP
7	1	5,736	4,732	82.50%	869	15.15%	212	135
8	2	5,632	4,934	87.61%	595	10.56%	155	103
9	3	2,879	2,629	91.32%	212	7.36%	61	38
10	4	2,904	2,074	71.42%	755	26%	124	75
11	Total	17,151	14,369		2,431	14.17%	552	351

13	District	Pop.	Dev.	%Dev.	Hisp.	%Hisp.	NH White	%NH White
14	1	3,865	18	0.47%	151	3.91%	3,044	78.76%
15	2	3,776	-71	-1.85%	57	1.51%	3,431	90.86%
16	3	3,854	7	0.18%	52	1.35%	3,417	88.66%
17	4	3,879	32	0.83%	114	2.94%	2,630	67.80%
18	5	3,735	-112	-2.91%	82	2.20%	2,905	77.78%
19	6	3,973	126	3.28%	108	2.72%	3,014	75.86%
20	Total	23,082			564		18,441

22	District	NH Blk	%NH Blk	VAP	%VAP	HVAP	%HVAP
23	1	524	13.56%	3,019	78.11%	96	3.18%
24	2	185	4.90%	2,959	78.36%	35	1.18%
25	3	281	7.29%	3,046	79.03%	30	0.98%
26	4	995	25.65%	3,071	79.17%	62	2.02%
27	5	664	17.78%	2,800	74.97%	43	1.54%
28	6	739	18.60%	3,087	77.70%	66	2.14%
29	Total	3,388		17,982		332

31	District	NH WVAP	%NH WVAP	NH BVAP	%NH BVAP
32	1	2,439	80.79%	363	12.02%
33	2	2,712	91.65%	135	4.56%
34	3	2,741	89.99%	199	6.53%
35	4	2,137	69.59%	768	25.01%

1	5	2,238	79.93%	458	16.36%
2	6	2,387	77.32%	553	17.91%
3	Total	14,654		2,476