Current StatusView additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.Bill Number: 4284 Ratification Number: 691 Act Number 787 Introducing Body: House Subject: School budgets and tax levies for schools --Orangeburg County
(A787, R691, H4284)
AN ACT TO AMEND ACT 245 OF 1983, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO BUDGETS OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN ORANGEBURG COUNTY, SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR BUDGETS AND TAX LEVIES FOR THE COUNTY'S SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND THAT NO SCHOOL DISTRICT MAY RAISE ITS MILLAGE BY MORE THAN FIVE MILLS IN ANY YEAR WITHOUT A REFERENDUM.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
School budgets and tax levies for schools -- Orangeburg County
SECTION 1. Section 1 of Act 245 of 1983, as last amended by Act 284 of 1987, is further amended to read:
"Section 1. The board of trustees of the school districts in Orangeburg County, before July first of each year, shall prepare a school district budget for the ensuing school year. Before September second of each year, each board of trustees shall notify the county auditor and treasurer in writing of the millage required for the ensuing school year. The notice by each board constitutes authority for the levying and collection of the millage upon all of the real and personal property within the school district. The levy must be placed to the credit of the district and expended within that district. No Orangeburg County school district may raise its millage by more than five mills above the inflation factor prescribed in the South Carolina Education Improvement Act of 1984 unless a majority of the registered electors of the particular district voting in a referendum called by the district board of trustees and conducted by the county election commission vote in favor of the millage increase budget becoming effective."
Time effective
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.