Amend the bill, as and if amended, page 2, by striking lines 1-17 and inserting:
/ (b)(1) Both at-large members elected to the board in 2018 shall be elected to a term of four years. One at-large seat shall be designated as school board seat 8, and one at-large seat shall be designated as school board seat 9.
(2) Following the 2020 decennial census, two new single-member districts shall be established, giving the Sumter County School District a total of nine single-member districts. One of the new single-member districts shall be designated as District 8, and the other new single member district shall be designated as District 9. A member shall be elected from each of the two new apportioned single-member districts beginning with the first school district election following reapportionment. The at-large seats on the school board are abolished when District 8 and District 9 become single-member districts. Candidates seeking election from the two new single-member districts must be residents of the school district and the election districts from which they are elected.
(3) The member elected in the first school district election following reapportionment from the new single-member district whose district number corresponds to the at-large seat number receiving the most votes in the 2018 election shall serve for a term of four years. The member elected the first school district election following reapportionment from the other new single-member district shall serve for a term of two years. Thereafter, the terms for members elected from District 8 and District 9 shall be four years. /
Renumber sections to conform.
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