A bill

 

TO AMEND ACT 779 OF 1988, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO LAURENS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 56, SO AS TO REAPPORTION THE SEVEN SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICTS FROM WHICH MEMBERS OF THE LAURENS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 56 BOARD OF TRUSTEES MUST BE ELECTED, TO REDESIGNATE THE MAP NUMBER ON WHICH THESE SINGLE-MEMBER 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 2B of Act 779 of 1988, as last amended by Act 104 of 2015, is further amended to read:

 

    SECTION 2B.    (A) One member of the Board of Trustees of School District 56 of Laurens County must reside in and be elected from each of the seven defined single member election districts by the electors within each election district as delineated in subsection (B) of this section.

    (B)(1) Beginning with the 2016 2026 school district elections, the seven defined single member election districts, from which each member of the Board of Trustees of Laurens County School District 56 must be elected by the qualified electors of that district are as shown on the official map designated as S-59-56-15 S-59-56-25 prepared by and on file with the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office. The Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office shall provide a certified copy of the map to the school district and the Laurens County Board of Voter Registration and Elections. The official map must not be changed except by an act of the General Assembly or by a court of competent jurisdiction.

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

 

35	District	Pop	Dev.	%Dev.	NH_WHT	%NH_WHT	NH_BLK	%NH_BLK
36	1	2,994	34	1.15%	1,371	45.79%	1,514	50.57%
37	2	2,955	5	0.17%	1,046	35.40%	1,839	62.23%
38	3	2,952	8	0.27%	2,275	77.07%	556	18.83%
39	4	2,916	44	1.49%	2,444	83.81%	385	13.20%
40	5	2,928	32	1.08%	2,118	72.34%	684	23.36%

1	6	3,033	73	2.47%	2,501	82.46%	438	14.44%
2	7	2,948	12	0.41%	1,937	65.71%	877	29.75%
3	Total	20,726			13,692		6,293	50.57%

 

5	District	VAP	NHWVAP	%NHWVAP	NHBVAP	%NHBVAP	AllOth	AllOthVAP
6	1	2,223	1,125	50.61%	1,021	45.93%	109	77
7	2	2,238	806	36.01%	1,390	62.11%	70	42
8	3	2,285	1,797	78.64%	399	17.46%	121	89
9	4	2,517	2,131	84.66%	307	12.20%	87	79
10	5	2,210	1,641	74.25%	492	22.26%	126	77
11	6	2,358	1,965	83.33%	329	13.95%	94	64
12	7	2,357	1,625	68.94%	656	27.83%	134	76
13	Total	16,188	11,090		4,594	28.38%	741	504

 

15	District	Pop.	Dev.	%Dev.	Hisp	%Hisp	NH Wht	%NH Wht
16	1	2,742	-83	-2.94%	63	2.30%	1,143	41.68%
17	2	2,695	-130	-4.60%	55	2.04%	957	35.51%
18	3	2,885	60	2.12%	100	3.47%	2,157	74.77%
19	4	2,917	92	3.26%	81	2.78%	2,199	75.39%
20	5	2,794	-31	-1.10%	136	4.87%	1,924	68.86%
21	6	2,843	18	0.64%	138	4.85%	2,255	79.32%
22	7	2,902	77	2.73%	78	2.69%	2,039	70.26%
23	Total	19,778			651		12,674

 

25	District	NH Blk	%NH Blk	VAP	%VAP	HVAP	%HVAP
26	1	1,429	52.12%	2,054	74.91%	34	1.66%
27	2	1,599	59.33%	2,108	78.22%	39	1.85%
28	3	537	18.61%	2,224	77.09%	59	2.65%
29	4	559	19.16%	2,540	87.08%	65	2.56%
30	5	652	23.34%	2,137	76.49%	80	3.74%
31	6	361	12.70%	2,148	75.55%	76	3.54%
32	7	698	24.05%	2,456	84.63%	62	2.52%
33	Total	5,835		15,667		415

 

 

1	District	WVAP	%WVAP	BVAP	%BVAP
2	1	927	45.13%	1,022	49.76%
3	2	766	36.34%	1,235	58.59%
4	3	1,729	77.74%	368	16.55%
5	4	1,926	75.83%	482	18.98%
6	5	1,527	71.46%	464	21.71%
7	6	1,748	81.38%	261	12.15%
8	7	1,766	71.91%	571	23.25%
9	Total	10,389		4,403

 

SECTION 2.  Notwithstanding another provision of law, the map referenced in this act alters only the boundaries of the single-member election districts that compose Laurens County School District 56. It does not alter the exterior boundaries of Laurens County School District 56.

 

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

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