Bill Text: SC S0731 | 2015-2016 | 121st General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Bamberg-Ehrhardt School District One

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-20 - Referred to Bamberg Delegation [S0731 Detail]

Download: South_Carolina-2015-S0731-Amended.html

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INTRODUCED

April 30, 2015

S. 731

Introduced by Senator Hutto

L. Printed 4/30/15--S.    [SEC 5/1/15 4:19 PM]

Read the first time April 30, 2015.

            

A BILL

TO AMEND ACT 581 OF 1992, RELATING TO BAMBERG-EHRHARDT SCHOOL DISTRICT ONE, SO AS TO REAPPORTION THE FIVE SINGLE-MEMBER ELECTION DISTRICTS FROM WHICH MEMBERS OF BAMBERG-EHRHARDT SCHOOL DISTRICT ONE 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.    Act 581 of 1992 is amended by adding Section 2A to read:

"2A(1)    Notwithstanding another provision of law or of this act, beginning with the 2017 school district elections, the single-member election districts from which the five members of Bamberg-Ehrhardt School District One in Bamberg County must be elected are as shown on the Bamberg-Ehrhardt School District One map S-09-01-15 as maintained by the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office.

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

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

1        1,783        21    1.19%        528            29.61%        1,199        67.25%

2        1,783        21    1.19%    1,129            63.32%            614        34.44%

3        1,755        -7        -0.40%        664            37.83%        1,058        60.28%

4        1,745        -17        -0.96%    1,181            67.68%            481        27.56%

5        1,744        -18        -1.02%        475            27.24%        1,224        70.18%

Total        8,810                            3,977                            4,576

District    VAP    NHWVAP    %NHWVAP        NHBVAP    %NHBVAP    AllOth    AllOthVAP

1        1,401        440            31.41%        921            65.74%    56            40

2        1,393        864            62.02%        502            36.04%    40            27

3        1,354        531            39.22%        800            59.08%    33            23

4        1,366        942            68.96%        367            26.87%    83            57

5        1,298        387            29.82%        882            67.95%    45            29

Total        6,812    3,164                        3,472            50.97%    257        176"

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