South Carolina General Assembly
125th Session, 2023-2024

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R117, S782

STATUS INFORMATION

General Bill
Sponsors: Senators Matthews and Davis
Document Path: LC-0236HDB23.docx

Introduced in the Senate on May 4, 2023
Introduced in the House on June 7, 2023
Last Amended on January 30, 2024
Currently residing in the Senate

Summary: Jasper County School District

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

Date Body Action Description with journal page number
5/4/2023 Senate Introduced, read first time, placed on local & uncontested calendar (Senate Journal-page 10)
5/11/2023 Senate Read second time (Senate Journal-page 1)
5/23/2023 Senate Read third time and sent to House (Senate Journal-page 43)
6/7/2023 House Introduced and read first time (House Journal-page 17)
6/7/2023 House Referred to Jasper Delegation (House Journal-page 17)
1/25/2024 House Delegation report: Favorable Jasper Delegation (House Journal-page 12)
1/26/2024 Scrivener's error corrected
1/30/2024 House Amended (House Journal-page 21)
1/30/2024 House Read second time (House Journal-page 21)
1/30/2024 House Roll call Yeas-104 Nays-0 (House Journal-page 22)
1/31/2024 House Read third time and returned to Senate with amendments (House Journal-page 18)
2/6/2024 Senate Concurred in House amendment and enrolled (Senate Journal-page 17)
3/7/2024 Ratified R 117
3/11/2024 Signed By Governor
3/14/2024 Effective date 03/11/24

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL

05/04/2023
05/04/2023-A
01/25/2024
01/26/2024
01/30/2024

(Text matches printed bills. Document has been reformatted to meet World Wide Web specifications.)

NOTE: THIS IS A TEMPORARY VERSION. THIS DOCUMENT WILL REMAIN IN THIS VERSION UNTIL FINAL APPROVAL BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

(R117, S782)

AN ACT TO DELINEATE THE NINE SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICTS FROM WHICH MEMBERS OF THE JASPER COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD OF TRUSTEES MUST BE ELECTED BEGINNING WITH THE 2024 GENERAL ELECTION, TO PROVIDE DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION REGARDING THESE DISTRICTS, AND TO REPEAL SECTION 2 OF ACT 476 OF 1998 RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICTS OF THE JASPER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT.

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

Jasper County School Board, reapportioned

SECTION 1.    Notwithstanding another provision of law:

(A) The nine single-member districts from which each of the members of the Jasper County School District Board of Trustees must be elected beginning with the 2024 General Election are as shown on the Jasper County School District map designated as S-53-00-23 and maintained by the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office.

(B) The demographic information for each of the nine single-member districts shown on the Jasper County School District map is as follows:

District    Pop.    Dev.    %Dev.    Hisp.    %Hisp.    NH White    %NH White

1    3,127    31    1.00%    703    22.48%    1,531    48.96%

2    3,108    12    0.39%    808    26.00%    863    27.77%

3    3,160    64    2.07%    629    19.91%    931    29.46%

4    3,069    -27    -0.87%    233    7.59%    1,507    49.10%

5    3,128    32    1.03%    324    10.36%    1,243    39.74%

6    2,926    -170    -5.49%    82    2.80%    2,713    92.72%

7    3,135    39    1.26%    483    15.41%    1,769    56.43%

8    3,152    56    1.81%    1,052    33.38%    1,296    41.12%

9    3,059    -37    -1.20%    726    23.73%    974    31.84%

Total    27,864            5,040        12,827

District    NH Blk    %NH Blk    VAP    %VAP    HVAP    %HVAP

1    789    25.23%    2,374    75.92%    430    18.11%

2    1,325    42.63%    2,243    72.17%    465    20.73%

3    1,555    49.21%    2,419    76.55%    414    17.11%

4    1,254    40.86%    2,410    78.53%    144    5.98%

5    1,444    46.16%    2,441    78.04%    210    8.60%

6    61    2.08%    2,876    98.29%    66    2.29%

7    779    24.85%    2,651    84.56%    365    13.77%

8    711    22.56%    2,463    78.14%    666    27.04%

9    1,251    40.90%    2,298    75.12%    444    19.32%

Total    9,169        22,175        3,204

District    WVAP    %WVAP    BVAP    %BVAP

1    1,293    54.47%    574    24.18%

2    694    30.94%    1,002    44.67%

3    786    32.49%    1,187    49.07%

4    1,251    51.91%    959    39.79%

5    1,053    43.14%    1,082    44.33%

6    2,708    94.16%    44    1.53%

7    1,583    59.71%    611    23.05%

8    1,195    48.52%    525    21.32%

9    824    35.86%    963    41.91%

Total    11,387        6,947

Repeal

SECTION 2.    Section 2 of Act 476 of 1998 is repealed.

Construction

SECTION 3.    Nothing in this act may be construed so as to repeal or alter the staggering of terms of the members of the board pursuant to Section 1 of Act 278 of 1985, as last amended by Act 476 of 1998, or any subsequent court order.

Time effective

SECTION 4.    This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

Ratified the 7th day of March, 2024.

Approved the 11th day of March, 2024. -- L.

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