Introduced by Reps. Gambrell, Gagnon, Bowen, Putnam, Thayer and White

1 INTRODUCED 2 February 6, 2014 3 4 H. 4633 5 6 Introduced by Reps. Gambrell, Gagnon, Bowen, Putnam, Thayer 7 and White 8 9 L. Printed 2/6/14--H. 10 Read the first time February 6, 2014. 11 12

[4633-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A BILL 10 11 TO AMEND ACT 510 OF 1982, AS AMENDED, RELATING 12 TO THE ANDERSON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, SO 13 AS TO REAPPORTION THE DISTRICTS FROM WHICH 14 BOARD MEMBERS ARE ELECTED; AND TO AMEND ACT 15 509 OF 1982, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE ELECTION 16 OF TRUSTEES OF THE FIVE ANDERSON COUNTY 17 SCHOOL DISTRICTS, SO AS TO REAPPORTION THESE 18 DISTRICTS. 19 20 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South 21 Carolina: 22 23 SECTION 1. Section 1(A) of Act 510 of 1982, as last amended 24 by Act 402 of 2002, is further amended to read: 25 26 “(A) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, beginning 27 with vacancies filled at the election conducted in 2002 2014, the 28 nine defined singlemember election districts from which each 29 member of the Anderson County Board of Education must be 30 elected by the qualified electors of that district are as shown 31 defined on the official map designated as S070002 S070014 32 prepared by and on file with the Office of Research and Statistical 33 Services Statistics of the State Budget and Control Board. 34 (2) The demographic information shown on this map is as 35 follows: 36 37 District Pop Dev. %Dev. NH_WHT %NH_WHT NH_BLK %NH_BLK VAP 38 1 21,360 568 2.73% 17,941 83.99% 2,682 12.56% 16,976 39 2 20,760 32 0.15% 18,577 89.48% 1,315 6.33% 15,191 40 3 20,581 211 1.01% 18,301 88.92% 1,320 6.41% 15,587 41 4 21,067 275 1.32% 18,188 86.33% 1,705 8.09% 15,705 42 5 20,586 206 0.99% 17,477 84.90% 2,634 12.80% 15,694 43 6 20,707 85 0.41% 17,239 83.25% 2,650 12.80% 15,835 44 7 20,976 184 0.88% 16,810 80.14% 2,909 13.87% 16,339 45 8 20,534 258 1.24% 15,360 74.80% 3,806 18.54% 15,832

[4633] 2 1 9 20,555 237 1.14% 7,469 36.34% 12,059 58.67% 15,142 2 3 Total 166,571 139,893 19,021 127,159 4 5 District NHWVAP %NHWVAP NHBVAP %NHBVAP AllOth AllOthVAP 6 1 14,528 85.58% 1,944 11.45% 737 504 7 2 13,752 90.53% 897 5.90% 868 542 8 3 14,068 90.25% 898 5.76% 960 621 9 4 13,791 87.81% 1,186 7.55% 1174 728 10 5 13,506 86.06% 1,870 11.92% 475 318 11 6 13,409 84.68% 1,878 11.86% 818 548 12 7 13,535 82.84% 1,984 12.14% 1257 820 13 8 12,287 77.61% 2,598 16.41% 1368 947 14 9 6,130 40.48% 8,346 55.12% 1027 666 15 16 Total 108,876 13,255 10.42% 7657 5028” 17 18 SECTION 2. Act 509 of 1982, as last amended by Act 347 of 19 2004, is further amended by adding a new section to read: 20 21 “Section 13A. (A)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of 22 law, beginning with school trustee elections in 2014, vacancies on 23 the sevenmember governing body of Anderson County School 24 District 1 must be filled in the manner provided by law from the 25 seven numbered singlemember districts as defined on Anderson 26 County School District 1 map S070114 as maintained in the Office 27 of Research and Statistics of the State Budget and Control Board. 28 A candidate must reside in the specific numbered district for which 29 the candidate files for election. Each of the seven members must 30 be elected by the qualified electors of all of Anderson County 31 School District 1 with the winner for each numbered district 32 determined by plurality vote. 33 (2) The demographic information shown on this map is as 34 follows: 35 36 District Pop Dev. %Dev. NH_WHT %NH_WHT NH_BLK %NH_BLK VAP 37 1 7,244 129 1.81% 6,344 87.58% 472 6.52% 5,275 38 2 7,147 32 0.45% 6,543 91.55% 378 5.29% 5,227 39 3 7,028 87 1.22% 6,239 88.77% 421 5.99% 5,288 40 4 6,983 132 1.86% 6,116 87.58% 568 8.13% 5,352 41 5 7,063 52 0.73% 6,295 89.13% 374 5.30% 5,259 42 6 7,248 133 1.87% 6,334 87.39% 429 5.92% 5,390 43 7 7,095 20 0.28% 6,373 89.82% 465 6.55% 5,229 44 45 Total 49,808 44,244 3,107 37,020 46 47 District NHWVAP %NHWVAP NHBVAP %NHBVAP AllOth AllOthVAP 48 1 4,690 8.91% 314 5.95% 428 271 49 2 4,814 92.10% 259 4.96% 226 154 50 3 4,762 90.05% 279 5.28% 368 247 51 4 4,750 88.75% 411 7.68% 299 191 52 5 4,784 90.97% 229 4.35% 394 246

[4633] 3 1 6 4,802 89.09% 294 5.45% 485 294 2 7 4,752 90.88% 326 6.23% 257 151 3 4 Total 33,354 2,112 5.71% 2457 1554 5 6 (3) The boundaries of Anderson County School District 1 7 are not altered by the provisions of this subsection. These school 8 district lines are as defined by law and any census blocks which 9 may be divided are done so only for statistical purposes and to 10 establish a population base. 11 (B)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, beginning 12 with the school trustee elections in 2014, vacancies on the 13 sevenmember governing body of Anderson County School District 14 2 must be filled in the manner provided by law as follows: 15 (a) two members each from Districts 1 and 2 and one 16 member each from Districts 3 and 4, the numbered districts being 17 as defined on Anderson County School District 2 map S070214, as 18 maintained in the Office of Research and Statistics of the State 19 Budget and Control Board; and 20 (b) one member elected from Anderson County School 21 District 2 at large. 22 A candidate for a numbered district seat must reside in the 23 district for which the candidate files for election. Each of the 24 seven members must be elected by the qualified electors of all of 25 Anderson County School District 2 with the winners from each 26 numbered district seat and the atlarge seat determined by plurality 27 vote. 28 (2) The demographic information shown on this map is as 29 follows: 30 31 District Pop Dev. %Dev. NH_WHT %NH_WHT NH_BLK %NH_BLK VAP 32 1 7,464 0 0% 6,005 80.45% 1,247 16.71% 5,736 33 2 7,378 86 1.15% 6,325 85.73% 898 12.17% 5,632 34 3 3,776 44 1.18% 3,452 91.42% 263 6.97% 2,879 35 4 3,776 44 1.18% 2,635 69.78% 1,017 26.93% 2,904 36 37 Total 22,394 18,417 3,425 17,151 38 39 District NHWVAP %NHWVAP NHBVAP %NHBVAP AllOth AllOthVAP 40 1 4,732 82.50% 869 15.15% 212 135 41 2 4,934 87.61% 595 10.56% 155 103 42 3 2,629 91.32% 212 7.36% 61 38 43 4 2,074 71.42% 755 26% 124 75 44 45 Total 14,369 2,431 14.17% 552 351 46 (3) The boundaries of Anderson County School District 2 47 are not altered by the provisions of this subsection. These school 48 district lines are as defined by law and any census blocks which

[4633] 4 1 may be divided are done so only for statistical purposes and to 2 establish a population base. 3 (C)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, beginning 4 with the school trustee elections in 2014, vacancies on the 5 fivemember governing body of Anderson County School District 3 6 must be filled in the manner provided by law as follows: 7 (a) one member each from the four numbered districts as 8 defined on Anderson County School District 3 map S070314, as 9 maintained in the Office of Research and Statistics of the State 10 Budget and Control Board; and 11 (b) one member elected from Anderson County School 12 District 3 at large. 13 A candidate for a numbered district seat must reside in the 14 district for which the candidate filed for election. Each of the 15 members of the five members must be elected by the qualified 16 electors of all of Anderson County School District 3 with the 17 winners from each numbered district seat and the atlarge seat 18 determined by plurality vote. 19 (2) The demographic information shown on this map is as 20 follows: 21 22 District Pop Dev. %Dev. NH_WHT %NH_WHT NH_BLK %NH_BLK VAP 23 1 3,751 38 1% 3,152 84.03% 515 13.73% 2,834 24 2 3,854 65 1.72% 3,249 84.30% 479 12.43% 2,861 25 3 3,754 35 0.92% 3,092 82.37% 479 12.76% 2,813 26 4 3,797 8 0.21% 3,548 93.44% 169 4.45% 2,948 27 28 Total 15,156 13,041 1,642 11,456 29 30 District NHWVAP %NHWVAP NHBVAP %NHBVAP AllOth AllOthVAP 31 1 2,381 84.02% 395 13.94% 84 58 32 2 2,468 86.26% 312 10.91% 126 81 33 3 2,332 82.90% 362 12.87% 183 119 34 4 2,775 94.13% 126 4.27% 80 47 35 36 Total 9,956 1,195 10.43% 473 305 37 38 (3) The boundaries of Anderson County School District 3 39 are not altered by the provisions of this subsection. These school 40 district lines are as defined by law and any census blocks which 41 may be divided are done so only for statistical purposes and to 42 establish a population base. 43 (D)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, beginning 44 with the school trustee elections in 2014, vacancies on the 45 fivemember governing body of Anderson County School District 4 46 must be filled in the manner provided by law, one member each 47 from the five singlemember districts as defined on Anderson

[4633] 5 1 County School District 4 map S070414, as maintained in the 2 Office of Research and Statistics of the State Budget and Control 3 Board. 4 A candidate must reside in the numbered singlemember district 5 for which the candidate files for election. The member must be 6 elected by the qualified electors of the numbered district of 7 Anderson County School District 4, with the winner determined by 8 a plurality vote. 9 (2) The demographic information shown on this map is as 10 follows: 11 12 District Pop Dev. %Dev. NH_WHT %NH_WHT NH_BLK %NH_BLK VAP 13 1 4,274 3 0.07% 3,987 93.28% 175 4.09% 3,511 14 2 4,240 31 0.73% 3,435 81.01% 646 15.24% 3,326 15 3 4,225 46 1.08% 2,844 67.31% 1,190 28.17% 3,344 16 4 4,312 41 0.96% 3,740 86.73% 452 10.48% 3,377 17 5 4,308 37 0.87% 3,928 91.18% 232 5.39% 3,425 18 19 Total 21,359 17,934 2,695 16,983 20 21 District NHWVAP %NHWVAP NHBVAP %NHBVAP AllOth AllOthVAP 22 1 3,308 94.22% 127 3.62% 112 76 23 2 2,767 83.19% 457 13.74% 159 102 24 3 2,338 69.92% 870 26.02% 191 136 25 4 2,951 87.39% 346 10.25% 120 80 26 5 3,167 92.47% 152 4.44% 148 106 27 28 Total 14,531 1,952 11.49% 730 500 29 30 (3) The boundaries of Anderson County School District 4 31 are not altered by the provisions of this subsection. These school 32 district lines are as defined by law and any census blocks which 33 may be divided are done so only for statistical purposes and to 34 establish a population base. 35 (E)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, beginning 36 with school trustee elections in 2014, vacancies on the 37 ninemember governing body of Anderson County School District 38 5 must be filled in the manner provided by law as follows: 39 (a) one member elected from each of the seven 40 singlemember districts defined on Anderson County School 41 District 5 map as maintained in the Office of Research and 42 Statistics of the State Budget and Control Board; and 43 (b) two members elected at large from Anderson County 44 School District 5. 45 A candidate for a numbered district seat must reside in the 46 singlemember district for which the candidate files for election. 47 These members must be elected by the qualified electors of the 48 specific numbered district of Anderson County School District 5, [4633] 6 1 with the winner determined by a plurality vote. The two atlarge 2 members must reside in Anderson County School District 5 when 3 they file for election and must be elected by the qualified electors 4 of Anderson County School District 5, with the winner determined 5 by plurality vote. All members shall serve for terms of four years 6 and until their successors are elected and qualify. 7 (2) The demographic information on the map is as follows: 8 9 District Pop Dev. %Dev.NH_WHT %NH_WHT NH_BLK %NH_BLK VAP 10 1 11,236 9 0.08% 8,750 77.87% 2,022 18% 8,709 11 2 11,046 181 1.61% 5,421 49.08% 5,050 45.72% 8,064 12 3 11,412 185 1.65% 8,190 71.77% 2,260 19.80% 8,761 13 4 11,447 220 1.96% 9,455 82.60% 1,388 12.13% 8,862 14 5 11,174 53 0.47% 3,475 31.10% 7,070 63.27% 8,285 15 6 10,953 274 2.44% 8,947 81.69% 1,339 12.22% 8,023 16 7 11,324 97 0.86% 9,666 85.36% 1,085 9.58% 9,141 17 18 Total 78,592 53,904 20,214 59,845 19 20 District NHWVAP %NHWVAP NHBVAP %NHBVAP AllOth AllOthVAP 21 1 6,957 79.88% 1,426 16.37% 464 326 22 2 4,343 53.86% 3,326 41.25% 575 395 23 3 6,580 75.11% 1,541 17.59% 962 640 24 4 7,492 84.54% 937 10.57% 604 433 25 5 2,875 34.70% 4,998 60.33% 629 412 26 6 6,720 83.76% 895 11.16% 667 408 27 7 7,978 87.28% 791 8.65% 573 372 28 29 Total 42,945 13,914 23.25% 4474 2986 30 31 (3) The boundaries of Anderson County School District 5 32 are not altered by the provisions of this subsection. These school 33 district lines are as defined by law and any census blocks which 34 may be divided are done so only for statistical purposes and to 35 establish a population base.” 36 37 SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval by the 38 Governor. 39 XX 40

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