Bill Text: SC H4166 | 2015-2016 | 121st General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Laurens County School Districts 55 and 56

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-08-17 - Act No. 104 [H4166 Detail]

Download: South_Carolina-2015-H4166-Amended.html

INTRODUCED

May 14, 2015

H. 4166

Introduced by Reps. Pitts and Willis

L. Printed 5/14/15--S.

Read the first time May 14, 2015.

            

A BILL

TO AMEND ACT 779 OF 1988, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO LAURENS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICTS 55 AND 56, SO AS TO REAPPORTION THE SEVEN SINGLE-MEMBER ELECTION DISTRICTS FROM WHICH MEMBERS OF LAURENS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 56 MUST BE ELECTED, TO DESIGNATE A MAP NUMBER ON WHICH THESE SINGLE-MEMBER 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 2B of Act 779 of 1988, as last amended by Act 316 of 2010, 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 after the primary election conducted in 2010 with the 2016 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, as revised by the change to the boundary line defining Laurens County School District 56 where it is contiguous with Laurens County School District 55, are as shown on the official map designated as S-59-56-10 S-59-56-15 prepared by and on file with the Office of Research and Statistics of the State Budget and Control Board Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office. The Office of Research and Statistics of the State Budget and Control Board must Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office shall provide a certified copy of the map to the school district and the Laurens County Registration and Election Commission 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:

District    Pop        Dev.        %Dev.    NH_WHT    %NH_WHT    NH_BLK    %NH_BLK

1        2,994        34        1.15%        1,371            45.79%        1,514            50.57%

2        2,955        -5        -0.17%        1,046            35.40%        1,839            62.23%

3        2,952        -8        -0.27%        2,275            77.07%        556            18.83%

4        2,916        -44        -1.49%        2,444            83.81%        385            13.20%

5        2,928        -32        -1.08%        2,118            72.34%        684            23.36%

6        3,033        73        2.47%        2,501            82.46%        438            14.44%

7        2,948        -12        -0.41%        1,937            65.71%        877            29.75%

Total    20,726                                13,692                            6,293

District    VAP    NHWVAP    %NHWVAP    NHBVAP    %NHBVAP    AllOth    AllOthVAP

1        2,223        1,125            50.61%        1,021        45.93%        109                77

2        2,238        806            36.01%        1,390        62.11%        70                42

3        2,285        1,797            78.64%        399        17.46%        121                89

4        2,517        2,131            84.66%        307        12.20%        87                79

5        2,210        1,641            74.25%        492        22.26%        126                77

6        2,358        1,965            83.33%        329        13.95%        94                64

7        2,357        1,625            68.94%        656        27.83%        134                76

Total    16,188    11,090                            4,594        28.38%    741            504"

SECTION    2.    The Laurens County Board of Voter Registration and Elections shall conduct and supervise the elections for school district trustees in the manner governed by the election laws of this State, mutatis mutandis.

SECTION    3.    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    4.    This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

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