Bill 4169

                    Current Status

Bill Number:               4169
Ratification Number:       769
Act Number                 757
Introducing Body:          House
Subject:                   Budget and tax levy for Calhoun County
                           Schools

(A757, R769, H4169)

AN ACT TO TRANSFER AUTHORITY TO LIMIT AND LEVY SCHOOL TAXES IN CALHOUN COUNTY FROM THE LEGISLATIVE DELEGATION AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE COUNTY BEGINNING WITH SCHOOL YEAR 1988-89 AND TO PROVIDE A BUDGETARY PROCEDURE FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES.

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

Budget and tax levy for Calhoun County schools

SECTION 1. Beginning with school year 1988-89 and each succeeding year thereafter, the governing body of Calhoun County constitutes the authority for the limiting and levy of school taxes in the county, and any authority previously vested in the General Assembly and the legislative delegation is transferred to and vested in the governing body of Calhoun County by this act. On or before May fifteenth of each year, the board of trustees of the Calhoun County school district shall prepare a budget for the operation and maintenance of the schools in the district for and during the next school year. On direction of the board, certified copies of the district's budget as adopted by the board must be filed with the Calhoun County Council which shall approve by July first of each year an operating budget for the Calhoun County public schools which provides for a general fund per pupil expenditure for noncapital programs not less than the prior year's general fund per pupil expenditures, adjusted by the 1988-89 Education Finance Act inflation factor and any and all additional expenditures mandated by state law or regulation.

Time effective

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