S 1220 {Rat #154, Act #261 of 2022} General Bill, By Rice
 AN ACT TO AMEND ACT 260 OF 1981, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT
 OF PICKENS COUNTY BOARD OF TRUSTEES, SO AS TO REAPPORTION THE SINGLE-MEMBER
 ELECTION DISTRICTS FROM WHICH MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES MUST BE ELECTED
 BEGINNING WITH THE 2022 GENERAL ELECTION, TO PROVIDE DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
 REGARDING THE REVISED ELECTION DISTRICTS, AND TO UPDATE THE MAP NUMBER ON
 WHICH THESE SINGLE-MEMBER ELECTION DISTRICTS ARE DELINEATED. - ratified title

   03/30/22  Senate Introduced, read first time, placed on local &
                     uncontested calendar (Senate Journal-page 3)
   04/06/22  Senate Read second time (Senate Journal-page 18)
   04/07/22  Senate Read third time and sent to House
                     (Senate Journal-page 17)
   04/19/22  House  Introduced, read first time, placed on calendar
                     without reference (House Journal-page 212)
   04/20/22  House  Read second time (House Journal-page 6)
   04/20/22  House  Roll call Yeas-100  Nays-0 (House Journal-page 7)
   04/21/22  House  Read third time and enrolled (House Journal-page 4)
   04/21/22         Ratified R  154
   04/25/22         Signed By Governor
   04/29/22         Effective date  04/25/22
   07/25/22         Act No.  261

(A261, R154, S1220)

AN ACT TO AMEND ACT 260 OF 1981, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PICKENS COUNTY BOARD OF TRUSTEES, SO AS TO REAPPORTION THE SINGLE-MEMBER ELECTION DISTRICTS FROM WHICH MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES MUST BE ELECTED BEGINNING WITH THE 2022 GENERAL ELECTION, TO PROVIDE DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION REGARDING THE REVISED ELECTION DISTRICTS, AND TO UPDATE THE MAP NUMBER ON WHICH THESE SINGLE-MEMBER ELECTION DISTRICTS ARE DELINEATED.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

School District of Pickens County

SECTION    1.    SECTION 1 of Act 260 of 1981, as last amended by Act 104 of 2017 is amended to read:

"SECTION    1.    (A)    Notwithstanding another provision of law, the Public Educational System of Pickens County is directed and managed by the Board of Trustees of the School District of Pickens County. Beginning with the 2018 General Election, the board must be comprised of seven members, each of whom must be a qualified elector and each must reside in the single-member district he represents. The lines defining the single-member districts are as shown on an official map on file with the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office designated as document S-77-00-17 and on file with the Pickens County GIS Mapping Department. This map must be used for the 2018 General Election and to fill any vacancies that occur following the 2018 General Election. Beginning with the 2022 General Election, the seven single-member districts must conform to the latest United States Decennial Census and be approved by statewide legislation amending this section in order to become effective. Only those electors residing in the particular district are eligible to vote for the trustee who will represent the district. On the effective date of these provisions, the current trustees shall continue to serve until their four-year terms expire and until their successors are elected and qualify. In the 2018 General Election, trustees will be elected for single-member Districts 2, 4, 6, and 7. Each trustee residing in single-member Districts 1, 3, and 5 shall continue to serve as the trustee for the single-member district in which he resides until his term ends in 2020 and his successor is elected and qualifies or until his office is vacated, whichever occurs first.

(B)    The electors of the Dellwood Subdivision of the City of Clemson, Anderson County, as shown in Plat Book 1920, page 150-A, Plat Book 12, page 266, and Plat Book 14, page 31, filed in the office of the Clerk of Court of Pickens County, shall be eligible to vote in the election of the member of the board of trustees for the nearest contiguous single-member school district and shall be eligible to serve on the board for that district.

(C)    All members of the board of trustees must be elected in a nonpartisan election at the time of the general election in the year in which their terms expire.

(D)    Upon the termination of the term of each single-member district trustee, his successor must be a qualified elector of the same district and must be elected in a nonpartisan election to be held at the same time as the general election preceding the expiration date by the qualified electors of the district for a term of four years and until his successor is elected and qualifies. If a single-member district seat is vacated before the end of the term, the seat must be filled for the remainder of the term by special election conducted in the same manner. The board of trustees shall elect a chairman and such other officers as it considers necessary.

(E)(1)    Notwithstanding another provision of law, beginning with the 2022 General Election, successors to the members of the governing body of the School District of Pickens County must be elected in the manner provided by law from one of the seven defined single-member election districts as shown on the School District of Pickens County map S-77-00-22 as maintained by the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office. Successors to those members whose terms expire in 2022 must be elected in the 2022 General Election, and the other members shall continue to serve until their current terms expire in 2024.

(2)    The demographic information shown on the Pickens County School District map is as follows:

District    Pop.        Dev.    % Dev.    Hisp.    %Hisp.

1        19,724    952    5.07%        934        4.74%

2        19,135    363    1.93%        952        4.98%

3        17,969    -803    -4.28%        481        2.68%

4        19,028    256    1.36%        949        4.99%

5        19,194    422    2.25%        1,395        7.27%

6        17,918    -854    -4.55%        1,344        7.50%

7        18,436    -336    -1.79%        517        2.80%

Totals        131,404                            6,572        5.00%

District    NHWhite     %NHWhite    NH DOJ Blk %NH DOJ Blk    VAP    %VAP

1        15,385            78.00%        1,778            9.01%        18,019    91.36%

2        14,479            75.67%        1,745            9.12%        15,887    83.03%

3        15,875            88.35%        766            4.26%        14,483    80.60%

4        16,176            85.01%        1,009            5.30%        14,816    77.86%

5        14,793            77.07%        2,260            11.77%        15,009    78.20%

6        13,882            77.48%        1,855            10.35%        14,183    79.16%

7        16,657            90.35%        451            2.45%        14,669    79.57%

Totals        107,247            81.62%        9,864            7.51%        107,066

%NH DOJ

District    HVAP     %HVAP    NH WVAP %NH WVAP NH DOJ BVAP BVAP

1        806        4.47%        14,228        78.96%        1,574            8.74%

2        737        4.64%        12,134        76.38%        1,350            8.50%

3        299        2.06%        12,977        89.60%        570            3.94%

4        588        3.97%        12,827        86.58%        724            4.89%

5        886        5.90%        11,990        79.89%        1,583            10.55%

6        824        5.81%        11,385        80.27%        1,350            9.52%

7        311        2.12%        13,452        91.70%        270            1.84%

Totals        4,451        4.16%        88,993        83.12%        7,421        6.93%"

School district's exterior boundaries unaffected

SECTION    2.    The exterior boundaries of the School District of Pickens County are not altered by the provisions of this act. These school district lines are as defined by law and any census blocks which may be divided are done so only for statistical purposes and to establish a population base.

Time effective

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

Ratified the 21st day of April, 2022.

Approved the 25th day of April, 2022.