A bill

 

to amend act 779 of 1988, as amended, relating to laurens county school district 55, so as to reapportion the seven single-member districts from which members of the laurens county school district 55 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 1B of Act 779 of 1988, as last amended by Act 105 of 2015, is further amended to read:

 

    SECTION 1B. (A) One member of the Board of Trustees of School District 55 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 55 must be elected by the qualified electors of that district are as shown on the official map designated as S-59-55-15 S-59-55-25 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	5,370	49	0.92%	4,511	84.00%	513	9.55%
37	2	5,332	11	0.21%	4,318	80.98%	844	15.83%
38	3	5,397	76	1.43%	4,455	82.55%	838	15.53%
39	4	5,364	43	0.81%	4,839	90.21%	353	6.58%
40	5	5,198	123	2.31%	1,635	31.45%	3,137	60.35%

1	6	5,165	156	2.93%	2,327	45.05%	2,519	48.77%
2	7	5,424	103	1.94%	3,603	66.43%	1,078	19.87%
3	Total	37,250			25,688		9,282

 

5	District	VAP	NHWVAP	%NHWVAP	NHBVAP	%NHBVAP	AllOth	AllOthVAP
6	1	4,128	3,562	86.29%	350	8.48%	346	216
7	2	4,202	3,436	81.77%	651	15.49%	170	115
8	3	4,283	3,578	83.54%	631	14.73%	104	74
9	4	4,030	3,680	91.32%	243	6.03%	172	107
10	5	3,803	1,330	34.97%	2,223	58.45%	426	250
11	6	3,951	1,873	47.41%	1,874	47.43%	319	204
12	7	4,085	2,864	70.11%	824	20.17%	743	397
13	Total	28,482	20,323		6,796	23.86%	2,280	1,363

 

15	District	Pop.	Dev.	%Dev.	Hisp.	%Hisp.	NH Wht	%NH Wht
16	1	5,638	204	3.75%	396	7.02%	4,329	76.78%
17	2	5,480	46	0.85%	294	5.37%	4,037	73.67%
18	3	5,530	96	1.77%	107	1.93%	4,497	81.32%
19	4	5,677	243	4.47%	224	3.95%	4,874	85.86%
20	5	5,141	-293	-5.39%	459	8.93%	1,764	34.31%
21	6	5,460	26	0.48%	523	9.58%	2,421	44.34%
22	7	5,135	-299	-5.50%	646	12.58%	3,175	61.83%
23	Total	38,061			2,649		25,097

 

25	District	NH Blk	%NH Blk	VAP	%VAP	HVAP	%HVAP
26	1	641	11.37%	4,442	78.79%	244	5.49%
27	2	954	17.41%	4,352	79.42%	185	4.25%
28	3	759	13.73%	4,473	80.89%	58	1.30%
29	4	407	7.17%	4,531	79.81%	156	3.44%
30	5	2,801	54.48%	3,788	73.68%	254	6.71%
31	6	2,332	42.71%	4,265	78.11%	379	8.89%
32	7	1,151	22.41%	3,938	76.69%	374	9.50%
33	Total	9,045		29,789		1,650

 

35

District

WVAP

%WVAP

BVAP

%BVAP

1	1	3,542	79.74%	457	10.29%
2	2	3,304	75.92%	708	16.27%
3	3	3,705	82.83%	591	13.21%
4	4	3,954	87.27%	275	6.07%
5	5	1,402	37.01%	2,054	54.22%
6	6	1,955	45.84%	1,789	41.95%
7	7	2,596	65.92%	841	21.36%
8	Total	20,458		6,715

 

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 55. It does not alter the exterior boundaries of Laurens County School District 55.

 

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

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