South Carolina H 3933: Public Service Districts

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2025-2026 Bill 3933 Text of Previous Version (Mar. 13, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 3933

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Committee Report

March 13, 2025

H. 3933

Introduced 
by Reps. Mitchell and B. Newton 

S. Printed 3/13/25--S.

Read the first time February 13, 2025

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The committee on Senate 
Labor, Commerce and Industry

To whom was referred a Bill (H. 3933) to 
amend the South Carolina Code of Laws by amending Section 33-36-1330, relating 
to appointment or election of board members, so as to establish a seven-member, 
etc., respectfully

Report:

That they have duly and carefully 
considered the same, and recommend that the same do pass:

THOMAS DAVIS for 
Committee.

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A bill

TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY 
AMENDING SECTION 33-36-1330, RELATING TO APPOINTMENT OR ELECTION OF BOARD 
MEMBERS, SO AS TO establish a seven-member board and to CHANGE THE APPOINTMENT 
PROCEDURE.

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

SECTION 
1. Section 33-36-1330(B) of the S.C. Code is 
amended to read:

 (B) For a corporation converted to a 
public service district pursuant to Section 33-36-1315, the existing directors, 
who shall constitute the initial governing board of the district, and officers 
shall serve until the expiration of their current terms. Thereafter, the public 
service district must be governed by a board comprising 
the same number of members as the predecessor corporation had as directors; 
provided that the governing board shall comprise no fewer than five members and 
no more than nine members. The governing board, by resolution, may decrease the 
number of members to not less than five and may increase the number of members 
to not more than ninecomprised of seven members. 
The successor members must be recommended by the board and 
appointed by the respective county legislative 
delegations in accordance with the following procedures. Each county legislative delegation shall have the right to 
appoint a number of members who bear the same relationship to the total number 
of members as the number of customers of the district within the county bears 
to the total number of customers of the district. The number of customers 
within each county, and the total number of customers, must be determined by 
reference to the billing and customer records of the public service district. 
Not less than forty-five days before the expiration of the term of any member, 
the governing board shall submit to the county legislative delegation with the 
right to appoint the successor member the name of a person recommended for 
appointment or reappointment to the board. A letter of recommendation by the 
board stating why the name is recommended shall accompany the submission. The 
county legislative delegation shall consider the recommendation of the board, 
but is not limited to that person in making its appointment. Each member must 
be appointed for a term of four years and until his successor is appointed and 
qualifies, provided that the terms of the members must be staggered by a county 
legislative delegation in making its appointments such that approximately 
one-half of the total members appointed by that county legislative delegation 
must be appointed or reappointed every two years. No member may be appointed 
for more than two consecutive terms. A vacancy must be filled for the remainder 
of the unexpired term in the manner of original appointment.:

 (1) the total number of customers of 
the public service district must be divided by the number of board seats, the 
result being an apportionate average;

 (2) the respective number of 
customers located in a county must be divided by the apportionate average to 
determine an appointive index;

 (3) the Governor, based upon the 
recommendation of the legislative delegation from the applicable county, must 
appoint a number of members to the board from each county to equal to the whole 
number indicated by its appointive index. If, by this method, there are 
insufficient members appointed to complete the board, an appointive index 
closest to the next highest whole number must be authorized to have an 
additional member appointed from the county; and

 (4) each member must be appointed for 
a term of four years and until his successor is appointed and qualified; 
provided, that the terms of the members must be staggered such that 
approximately one-half of the total members appointed by the Governor must be 
appointed or reappointed every two years. A vacancy must be filled for the 
remainder of the unexpired term in the manner of the original appointment.

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

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