South Carolina H 4559: School Millage

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2025-2026 Bill 4559 Text of Previous Version (May. 08, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 4559

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TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING 
SECTION 4-9-70, RELATING TO POWERS OF COUNTY COUNCILS WITH REGARD TO PUBLIC 
SCHOOL EDUCATION, SO AS TO REQUIRE SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO CALCULATE, LEVY, AND 
COLLECT THE TAX RELATED TO THE PROPERLY ESTABLISHED MILLAGE.

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

SECTION 1. Section 4-9-70 of the S.C. Code is amended to read:

 Section 
4-9-70. (A) The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed 
to devolve any additional powers upon county councils with regard to public 
school education, and all school districts, boards of trustees and county 
boards of education shall continue to perform their statutory functions in 
matters related thereto as prescribed in the general law of the State; 
provided, however, that except as otherwise provided for in this section the 
county council shall determine by ordinance the method of establishing the 
school tax millage except in those cases where boards of trustees of the 
districts or the county board of education established such millage at the time 
one of the alternate forms of government provided for in this chapter becomes 
effective. In counties containing more than one school district, where all such 
districts are located wholly within the boundaries of the county, council may 
by ordinance establish county-wide school tax millage. Provided, further, that 
in any county where the General Assembly retained the authority to establish or 
limit the millage levied by school districts or levy a tax for educational 
purposes, on January 1, 1974, such authority shall continue in the General 
Assembly until such time as such authority may be transferred to the school 
district or the county governing body by act of the General Assembly. Provided, 
further, in any county where on January 1, 1975 the school district tax millage 
and budget was established in meetings or referendums of the qualified electors 
of the district at which meetings or referendums such electors changed, 
altered, rejected, or amended by voice vote or ballot the school budget and 
necessary tax millage to implement such budget as proposed by the district 
board of trustees, such procedures to establish the school tax millage shall 
continue unaffected or modified by the provisions of this section or any other 
provision of law in conflict with this proviso.

 (B) The individual school district is 
responsible for calculating the amount due pursuant to the properly established 
millage, levying, and collecting the tax for each property located within the 
school district. The county council shall no longer include the established 
millage in the property tax bills levied and collected.

SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval 
by the Governor.

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