Bill Summary – FastDemocracy

FILED SENATE
                                                                                         Mar 8, 2023
                          GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
                                                                 S.B. 248
                                      SESSION 2023           PRINCIPAL CLERK
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                               SENATE BILL DRS45117-NG-26
     Short Title:   Change No. of Members on Nash Co. Bd. of Ed.                                (Local)
     Sponsors:      Senators Barnes and B. Newton (Primary Sponsors).
     Referred to:
 1                                      A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 2   AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ELECTION OF SEVEN MEMBERS TO THE NASH
 3       COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION AND TO ALIGN THE DISTRICTS OF NASH
 4       COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION MEMBERS WITH THE DISTRICTS OF NASH
 5       COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
 6   The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
 7                SECTION 1. Sections 9, 10, and 11 of Chapter 391 of the 1991 Session Laws are
 8   repealed.
 9                SECTION 2. Subdivision (3) of Section 7 of S.L. 2016-14 is repealed.
10                SECTION 3. Beginning in 2024, the Nash County Board of Education shall consist
11   of seven members elected for four-year terms of office on a nonpartisan basis as provided in
12   Chapter 115C and Chapter 163 of the General Statutes, with the results determined in accordance
13   with G.S. 163-292. The filing period shall be from noon on the first Friday in July until noon on
14   the first Friday in August. One member shall be elected from each district used to elect county
15   commissioners. Persons elected to the Nash County Board of Education shall take office on the
16   second Monday in December following their election, and the terms of their office shall date and
17   extend from that time. No person shall be eligible to file for, or be elected to, the Nash County
18   Board of Education, or to serve on the Nash County Board of Education, unless the person is a
19   qualified voter and resident of the district from which the person seeks to be elected. Candidates
20   shall be voted on by the electors residing in the district from which they seek election. All
21   members of the Nash County Board of Education shall be elected in 2024. In order to implement
22   staggered terms, for elections held in 2024, members from Districts 1, 3, 5, and 7 shall be elected
23   to four-year terms and members from Districts 2, 4, and 6 shall be elected to a two-year term and
24   to four-year terms thereafter.
25                SECTION 4. Notwithstanding Section 3 of this act, all members residing in Nash
26   County who were elected to the Nash-Rocky Mount Board of Education in 2022 shall continue
27   to hold at-large positions on the Board until the end of their term or a vacancy occurs due to
28   resignation or other causes.
29                SECTION 5. This act is effective when it becomes law and applies to elections held
30   beginning in 2024.
                                    *DRS45117-NG-26*
Statutes affected: 
Edition 4: 115C-37.1
Ratified: 115C-37.1
SL 2023-37: 115C-37.1