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2025-2026 Bill 4664: Greenville County School District, partisan trustee elections - South Carolina Legislature Online
South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026
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H. 4664
STATUS INFORMATION
General Bill
Sponsors: Reps. Frank, Burns, Huff and Morgan
Document Path: LC-0314HDB26.docx
Introduced in the House on January 13, 2026
Currently residing in the House Committee on
Greenville Delegation
Summary: Greenville County School District, partisan trustee elections
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
Date
Body
Action Description with journal page number
12/16/2025
House
Prefiled
12/16/2025
House
Referred to
Greenville Delegation
1/13/2026
House
Introduced and read first time (
House Journal-page 50
)
1/13/2026
House
Referred to Committee on
Greenville Delegation
(
House Journal-page 50
)
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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
12/17/2025
A bill
TO AMEND ACT 521 OF 1992, RELATING TO THE MANNER IN WHICH
MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF GREENVILLE COUNTY
ARE ELECTED, SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR PARTISAN TRUSTEE ELECTIONS BEGINNING IN 2026.
B
e it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
S
ECTION 1. SECTION
1 of Act 521 of 1992 is amended to read:
SECTION 1. Beginning with the
1992
2026
election, the Board of Trustees of the Greenville
County School District consists of twelve members who must be elected in
nonpartisan
partisan
elections
to be held in the manner
hereinafter
provided
by law
. One member of the board must be a resident of
and elected from each of the twelve defined single-member election districts
established in Section 2 of this act. In the
1992
2026
election, members of the board must be elected from
the odd-numbered districts for four-year terms.
Thereafter, their successors also must be elected for four-year terms. The
present members of the board who reside in the newly created even-numbered
districts shall continue to be members of the board representing these
respective districts until 1994 at which time they or their successors shall be
elected for four-year terms
In the 2028 election,
members of the board must be elected from the even-numbered districts for four-year
terms
. All members of the board shall serve until their successors are
elected and qualify. In the event of a vacancy on the board occurring for any
reason other than expiration of a term, the
board shall
call a
vacancy must be filled by
special
election
pursuant to Section
7-13-190
to fill the
unexpired term, so long as the vacancy does not occur within ten months of a
regular trustee
regularly scheduled
November general
election
of an even-numbered year
.
In this case, the vacancy must be filled for the unexpired term or for a full
term as appropriate at the next
regular
regularly scheduled general
election.
E
ach member of the board
must be elected by the qualified electors of that district.
Nominations for candidates to be elected in a general or special
election may be by political party primary, political party convention, or
petition. Candidates seeking nomination by political party primary or
convention must file a statement of intention of candidacy, party pledge, and
any filing fees pursuant to Section
7-11-15
, and candidates or nominees must be
certified as provided in Sections
7-13-40
and
7-13-350
, as appropriate.
Candidates seeking nomination by petition must submit the petition in
accordance with Section
7-13-351
.
All persons
desiring to qualify as a candidate shall file written notice of candidacy with
the county election commission at least sixty days before the date set for the
election but not earlier than ninety days before the election. This notice of
candidacy must be a sworn statement and must include the candidate's name, age,
residence address, voting precinct, period of residence in the election
district from which election is sought, and other information as the county
election commission requires.
T
he county
commissioners of election
board of
voter registration and elections
shall conduct and supervise the
elections for members of the board in the manner governed by the election laws
of this State, mutatis mutandis.
The commissioners shall
prepare the necessary ballots, appoint managers for the voting precincts, and
do all things necessary to carry out the elections, including the counting of
ballots and declaring the results. The commissioners shall advertise the date
of the election ninety days preceding the election in a newspaper of general
circulation published in the district and shall publish a second notice thirty
days before the election. The costs of the election must be borne by the school
district.
T
he candidate receiving the highest number of the votes in each
district in the election must be declared elected.
T
he members of the board
elected in these nonpartisan elections shall take office one week following
certification of their election as provided in Section
59-19-315
of the 1976
Code.
E
xcept for those present members of the board from the newly
created even-numbered districts who shall continue to serve until 1994 as
provided by this section, the current members of the board shall continue to be
selected and serve as now provided by law until the members elected in the 1992
election qualify and take office, at which time the then current terms of the
present members of the board shall expire.
S
ECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval
by the Governor.
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