Bill Text: MS HB1514 | 2010 | Regular Session | Engrossed
Bill Title: School boards; require members of certain to be elected at time of general elections.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2010-03-27 - Died In Conference [HB1514 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2010-HB1514-Engrossed.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2010 Regular Session
To: Education; Apportionment and Elections
By: Representative Reynolds
House Bill 1514
(As Passed the House)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 37-7-203, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE FOR THE ELECTION OF CERTAIN MEMBERS OF THE BOARDS OF TRUSTEES OF MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICTS HAVING ADDED TERRITORY IN THE SAME MANNER AND AT THE SAME TIME AS THE GENERAL STATE ELECTION; TO ESTABLISH A TERM OF SIX YEARS FOR THE TRUSTEES ELECTED FROM THE ADDED TERRITORY; TO PROVIDE FOR THE MANNER OF FILLING A VACANCY IN THE OFFICE OF TRUSTEE ELECTED FROM THE ADDED TERRITORY OF A MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT; TO AMEND SECTION 37-7-211, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REQUIRE CANDIDATES FOR THE OFFICE OF TRUSTEE FROM THE ADDED TERRITORY OF A MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT TO QUALIFY AS A CANDIDATE IN THE SAME MANNER AND AT THE SAME TIME AS MEMBERS OF COUNTY SCHOOL BOARDS; TO BRING FORWARD SECTION 37-7-215, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, WHICH SETS THE DAY FOR THE ELECTION AND RUNOFF ELECTION OF TRUSTEES, FOR PURPOSES OF POSSIBLE AMENDMENT; TO AMEND SECTION 37-7-217, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REQUIRE THE COUNTY ELECTION COMMISSIONERS TO CERTIFY THE RESULTS OF THE ELECTION OF THE TRUSTEES FROM THE ADDED TERRITORY OF A MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT; TO AMEND SECTION 37-7-219, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REQUIRE THE COUNTY ELECTION COMMISSIONERS TO PREPARE THE LISTS OF QUALIFIED ELECTORS FOR THOSE PRECINCTS IN WHICH TRUSTEES FROM THE ADDED TERRITORY OF A MUNICIPAL SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT ARE BEING ELECTED; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 37-7-203, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
[Until the date the provisions of Section 2, Chapter 470, Laws of 2009, that relate to a majority vote requirement and a runoff election are effectuated under the provisions of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended and extended, this section shall read as follows:]
37-7-203. (1) The boards of trustees of all municipal separate school districts created under this chapter, either with or without added territory, shall consist of five (5) members. Each appointed member shall be chosen for a term of five (5) years in such a manner that the term of office of one (1) member shall expire each year. If the added territory of a municipal separate school district furnishes fifteen percent (15%) or more of the pupils enrolled in the schools of such district, then at least one (1) member of the board of trustees of such school district shall be a resident of the added territory outside the corporate limits. If the added territory of a municipal separate school district furnishes thirty percent (30%) or more of the pupils enrolled in the schools of such district, then not more than two (2) members of the board of trustees of such school district shall be residents of the added territory outside the corporate limits. The member or members from the added territory shall be elected for a term of six (6) years. If more than one (1) member is elected, the terms of the elected members shall be staggered so that the terms of the elected members do not expire in the same year. However, in order to provide for an orderly transition, the term of an elected member of the board serving in Post I on the effective date of House Bill No. 1514, 2010 Regular Session, that otherwise would expire on the first Saturday of March 2015, shall expire on the first Monday of January 2016, at which time the individual elected in the manner provided in Section 37-7-215 shall take office. An elected member of the board serving in Post II whose term expires on the first Saturday of March 2017, shall continue to serve until the first Monday of January 2018, at which time the individual elected in the manner provided in Section 37-7-215 shall take office. Thereafter, each elected member serving in Post I or Post II shall be elected at general elections and shall take office on the first Monday of January following the date of their election. If the added territory of a municipal separate school district in a county in which Mississippi Highways 8 and 15 intersect furnishes thirty percent (30%) or more of the pupils enrolled in the schools of such district, then the five (5) members of the board of trustees of such school district shall be elected at large from such school district for a term of five (5) years each except that the two (2) elected trustees presently serving on such board shall continue to serve for their respective terms of office. The three (3) appointed trustees presently serving on such board shall continue to serve until their successors are elected in March of 1975 in the manner provided for in Section 37-7-215. At such election, one (1) trustee shall be elected for a term of two (2) years, one (1) for a term of three (3) years and one (1) for a term of five (5) years. Subsequent terms for each successor trustee shall be for five (5) years. In the event one (1) of two (2) municipal separate school districts located in any county with two (2) judicial districts, District 1 being comprised of Supervisors Districts 1, 2, 4 and 5, and District 2 being comprised of Supervisors District 3, with added territory embraces three (3) full supervisors districts of a county, one (1) trustee shall be elected from each of the three (3) supervisors districts outside the corporate limits of the municipality. In the further event that the territory of a municipal separate school district located in any county with two (2) judicial districts, District 1 being comprised of Supervisors Districts 1, 2, 4 and 5, and District 2 being comprised of Supervisors District 3, with added territory embraces four (4) full supervisors districts in the county, and in any county in which a municipal separate school district embraces the entire county in which Highways 14 and 15 intersect, one (1) trustee shall be elected from each supervisors district.
Except as otherwise provided herein, the appointed trustees of such a municipal separate school district shall be elected by a majority of the governing authorities of the municipality at the first meeting of the governing authorities held in the month of February of each year, and the term of office of the appointed member * * * shall commence on the first Saturday of March following. In the case of a member of the board of trustees who is required to come from the added territory outside the corporate limits as is above provided, such member of the board of trustees shall be elected by the qualified electors of the school district residing in such added territory outside the corporate limits at the same time and in the same manner * * * provided in Section 37-7-215.
In the event that a portion of a county school district is reconstituted, in the manner provided by law, into a municipal separate school district with added territory and in the event that the trustees to be elected from the added territory are requested to be elected from separate election districts within the added territory, instead of elected at large, by the Attorney General of the United States as a result of and pursuant to preclearance under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as amended and extended, and in the event the added territory of a municipal separate school district of a municipality furnishes thirty percent (30%) or more of the pupils enrolled in the schools of such district, then two (2) members of the board of trustees shall be residents of the added territory outside the corporate limits of such municipality and shall be elected from special trustee election districts by the qualified electors thereof as herein provided. The board of trustees of the school district shall apportion the added territory into two (2) special trustee election districts as nearly as possible according to population and other factors heretofore pronounced by the courts. The board of trustees of the school district shall thereafter publish the same in a newspaper of general circulation within that school district for at least two (2) consecutive weeks; and after having given notice of publication and recording the same upon the minutes of the board of trustees of the school district, the new district lines shall thereafter be effective. Any person elected from the new trustee election districts constituted herein shall be elected in the manner provided for in Section 37-7-215 for a term of six (6) years. Any vacancy in the office of a trustee elected from such trustee election district, whether occasioned by redistricting or by other cause, shall be filled by appointment of the governing authorities of the municipality, provided that the person so appointed shall serve only until the next general election following his appointment, at which time a person shall be elected for the remainder of the unexpired term in the manner provided in Section 37-7-215.
In any county organizing a countywide municipal separate school district after January 1, 1965, the trustees thereof to be elected from outside the municipality, such trustees shall be elected by the board of supervisors of such county, and the superintendent of such school district shall have authority to pay out and distribute the funds of the district. In the event a municipal separate school district should occupy territory in a county other than that in which the municipality is located and fifteen percent (15%) or more of the pupils enrolled in the schools of such district shall come from the territory of the district in the county other than that in which the municipality is located, the territory of such county in which the municipality is not located shall be entitled to one (1) member on the board of trustees of such school district. The trustee shall be a resident of the territory of that part of the district lying in the county in which the municipality is not located and shall be elected by the qualified electors of the territory of such county at the same time and in the same manner as is provided for the election of trustees of school districts other than municipal separate school districts having territory in two (2) or more counties.
All vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired terms by appointment of the governing authorities of the municipality. Upon the failure of the governing authority to appoint a successor for an appointed member, the appointed member holding office shall continue to serve until a duly appointed successor takes office. However, in the case of the trustees coming from the added territory outside the corporate limits, if the next regular general election at which the vacancy may be filled is less than one (1) year from the date of the vacancy, the governing authority of the municipality shall appoint an interim board member to fill the vacancy only until the first Monday of January succeeding the next general election following his appointment, at which time the person * * * elected * * * in the manner * * * provided in Section 37-7-215 shall take office. If the members of the governing authority of the municipality are unable to agree upon an individual to be appointed, any two (2) of the members may certify the disagreement to the county election commission. Upon the receipt of a certificate by the county election commission, or any member thereof, the commission shall hold a special election to fill the vacancy, which election, notice thereof and ballot shall be controlled by the law concerning special elections to fill vacancies in county or county district offices. The person elected at a special election shall serve for the remainder of the unexpired term.
No person who is a member of such governing body, or who is an employee of the municipality, or who is a member of the county board of education, or who is a trustee of any public, private or sectarian school or college located in the county, inclusive of the municipal separate school district, or who is a teacher in or a trustee of the school district, shall be eligible for appointment to the board of trustees.
(2) In counties of less than fifteen thousand (15,000) people having a municipal separate school district with added territory which embraces all the territory of a county, one or more trustees of the school district shall be nominated from each supervisors district upon petition of fifty (50) qualified electors of that supervisors district, or twenty percent (20%) of the qualified electors of such district, whichever number shall be smaller. One (1) trustee must be elected from each supervisors district of the county. In such counties embraced entirely by a municipal separate school district, there shall be no county board of education after the formation of such district, and the county superintendent of education shall act as superintendent of schools of the district and shall be appointed by the board of trustees of that district, and the provisions of subsection (1) of this section and the first paragraph of Section 37-7-211 shall not apply to such districts.
[From and after the date the provisions of Section 2, Chapter 470, Laws of 2009, that relate to a majority vote requirement and a runoff election are effectuated under the provisions of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended and extended, this section shall read as follows:]
37-7-203. (1) The boards of trustees of all municipal separate school districts created under this chapter, either with or without added territory, shall consist of five (5) members. Each appointed member shall be chosen for a term of five (5) years in such a manner that the term of office of one (1) member shall expire each year. If the added territory of a municipal separate school district furnishes fifteen percent (15%) or more of the pupils enrolled in the schools of such district, then at least one (1) member of the board of trustees of such school district shall be a resident of the added territory outside the corporate limits. If the added territory of a municipal separate school district furnishes thirty percent (30%) or more of the pupils enrolled in the schools of such district, then not more than two (2) members of the board of trustees of such school district shall be residents of the added territory outside the corporate limits. The member or members from the added territory shall be elected for a term of six (6) years. If more than one (1) member is elected, the terms of the elected members shall be staggered so that the terms of the elected members do not expire in the same year. However, in order to provide for an orderly transition, the term of an elected member of the board serving in Post I on the effective date of House Bill No. 1514, 2010 Regular Session, that otherwise would expire on the first Saturday of March 2015, shall expire on the first Monday of January 2016, at which time the individual elected in the manner provided in Section 37-7-215 shall take office. An elected member of the board serving in Post II whose term expires on the first Saturday of March 2017, shall continue to serve until the first Monday of January 2018, at which time the individual elected in the manner provided in Section 37-7-215 shall take office. Thereafter, each elected member serving in Post I or Post II shall be elected at general elections and shall take office on the first Monday of January following the date of their election. If the added territory of a municipal separate school district in a county in which Mississippi Highways 8 and 15 intersect furnishes thirty percent (30%) or more of the pupils enrolled in the schools of such district, then the five (5) members of the board of trustees of such school district shall be elected at large from such school district for a term of five (5) years each except that the two (2) elected trustees presently serving on such board shall continue to serve for their respective terms of office. The three (3) appointed trustees presently serving on such board shall continue to serve until their successors are elected in March of 1975 in the manner provided for in Section 37-7-215. At such election, one (1) trustee shall be elected for a term of two (2) years, one (1) for a term of three (3) years and one (1) for a term of five (5) years. Subsequent terms for each successor trustee shall be for five (5) years. In the event one (1) of two (2) municipal separate school districts located in any county with two (2) judicial districts, District 1 being comprised of Supervisors Districts 1, 2, 4 and 5, and District 2 being comprised of Supervisors District 3, with added territory embraces three (3) full supervisors districts of a county, one (1) trustee shall be elected from each of the three (3) supervisors districts outside the corporate limits of the municipality. In the further event that the territory of a municipal separate school district located in any county with two (2) judicial districts, District 1 being comprised of Supervisors Districts 1, 2, 4 and 5, and District 2 being comprised of Supervisors District 3, with added territory embraces four (4) full supervisors districts in the county, and in any county in which a municipal separate school district embraces the entire county in which Highways 14 and 15 intersect, one (1) trustee shall be elected from each supervisors district.
Except as otherwise provided herein, the appointed trustees of such a municipal separate school district shall be elected by a majority of the governing authorities of the municipality at the first meeting of the governing authorities held in the month of February of each year, and the term of office of the appointed member * * * shall commence on the first Saturday of March following. In the case of a member of the board of trustees who is required to come from the added territory outside the corporate limits as is above provided, such member of the board of trustees shall be elected by the qualified electors of the school district residing in such added territory outside the corporate limits at the same time and in the same manner * * * provided in Section 37-7-215.
In the event that a portion of a county school district is reconstituted, in the manner provided by law, into a municipal separate school district with added territory and in the event that the trustees to be elected from the added territory are requested to be elected from separate election districts within the added territory, instead of elected at large, by the Attorney General of the United States as a result of and pursuant to preclearance under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as amended and extended, and in the event the added territory of a municipal separate school district of a municipality furnishes thirty percent (30%) or more of the pupils enrolled in the schools of such district, then two (2) members of the board of trustees shall be residents of the added territory outside the corporate limits of such municipality and shall be elected from special trustee election districts by the qualified electors thereof as herein provided. The board of trustees of the school district shall apportion the added territory into two (2) special trustee election districts as nearly as possible according to population and other factors heretofore pronounced by the courts. The board of trustees of the school district shall thereafter publish the same in a newspaper of general circulation within that school district for at least two (2) consecutive weeks; and after having given notice of publication and recording the same upon the minutes of the board of trustees of the school district, the new district lines shall thereafter be effective. Any person elected from the new trustee election districts constituted herein shall be elected in the manner provided for in Section 37-7-215 for a term of six (6) years. Any vacancy in the office of a trustee elected from such trustee election district, whether occasioned by redistricting or by other cause, shall be filled by appointment of the governing authorities of the municipality, provided that the person so appointed shall serve only until the next general election following his appointment, at which time a person shall be elected for the remainder of the unexpired term in the manner provided in Section 37-7-215.
In any county organizing a countywide municipal separate school district after January 1, 1965, the trustees thereof to be elected from outside the municipality, such trustees shall be elected by the board of supervisors of such county, and the superintendent of such school district shall have authority to pay out and distribute the funds of the district. In the event a municipal separate school district should occupy territory in a county other than that in which the municipality is located and fifteen percent (15%) or more of the pupils enrolled in the schools of such district shall come from the territory of the district in the county other than that in which the municipality is located, the territory of such county in which the municipality is not located shall be entitled to one (1) member on the board of trustees of such school district. The trustee shall be a resident of the territory of that part of the district lying in the county in which the municipality is not located and shall be elected by the qualified electors of the territory of such county at the same time and in the same manner as is provided for the election of trustees of school districts other than municipal separate school districts having territory in two (2) or more counties.
All vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired terms by appointment of the governing authorities of the municipality. Upon the failure of the governing authority to appoint a successor for an appointed member, the appointed member holding office shall continue to serve until a duly appointed successor takes office. However, in the case of the trustees coming from the added territory outside the corporate limits, if the next regular general election at which the vacancy may be filled is less than one (1) year from the date of the vacancy, the governing authority of the municipality shall appoint an interim board member to fill the vacancy only until the first Monday of January succeeding the next general election following his appointment, at which time the person * * * elected * * * in the manner * * * provided in Section 37-7-215 shall take office. If the members of the governing authority of the municipality are unable to agree upon an individual to be appointed, any two (2) of the members may certify the disagreement to the county election commission. Upon the receipt of a certificate by the county election commission, or any member thereof, the commission shall hold a special election to fill the vacancy, which election, notice thereof and ballot shall be controlled by the law concerning special elections to fill vacancies in county or county district offices. The person elected at a special election shall serve for the remainder of the unexpired term.
No person who is a member of such governing body, or who is an employee of the municipality, or who is a member of the county board of education, or who is a trustee of any public, private or sectarian school or college located in the county, inclusive of the municipal separate school district, or who is a teacher in or a trustee of the school district, shall be eligible for appointment to the board of trustees.
(2) In counties of less than fifteen thousand (15,000) people having a municipal separate school district with added territory which embraces all the territory of a county, one or more trustees of the school district shall be nominated from each supervisors district upon petition of fifty (50) qualified electors of that supervisors district, or twenty percent (20%) of the qualified electors of such district, whichever number shall be smaller. One (1) trustee must be elected from each supervisors district of the county. The person nominated in each supervisors district who receives a majority of the votes cast in the school district for the office of trustee from that supervisors district must be declared elected. If no person in a supervisors district receives a majority of the votes cast, then the two (2) persons residing in that supervisors district who receive the highest number of votes cast in the school district for the office of trustee from that supervisors district shall have their names submitted as candidates in a runoff election three (3) weeks after the date of the election, and the person who receives a majority of the votes cast in the runoff election must be declared elected. In such counties embraced entirely by a municipal separate school district, there shall be no county board of education after the formation of such district, and the county superintendent of education shall act as superintendent of schools of the district and shall be appointed by the board of trustees of that district, and the provisions of subsection (1) of this section and the first paragraph of Section 37-7-211 shall not apply to such districts.
SECTION 2. Section 37-7-211, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
37-7-211. (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section, any person otherwise eligible under the provisions of subsection (1) of Section 37-7-203 who shall desire to be a candidate for the office of trustee must qualify in the following manner in order to be allowed to be considered for election. By 5:00 p.m. at least forty (40) days before the election he shall file with the office of the superintendent of the * * * special municipal separate school district, * * * a petition signed by not less than twenty-five (25) qualified electors of the area represented by the office which he seeks, either for a full term or an unexpired term, as the case may be, and an affidavit by the candidate offering for election stating his qualifications under the terms of said sections. The petition shall contain an affidavit certifying that all signatures are the personal signatures of each person whose name appears on the petition and that each person is a qualified elector.
Unless the petition and affidavit required above shall be filed by 5:00 p.m. not less than forty (40) days prior to the election, the name of the candidate shall not be considered in the election, and votes cast for any person who has failed to qualify shall not be counted in the election.
(2) Any person eligible under Section 37-7-203(1) who desires to be a candidate for the office of trustee from the added territory of a municipal separate school district with added territory must qualify in the following manner in order to be a candidate for election. Not more than ninety (90) days and not less than sixty (60) days before the date of the general election, the candidate shall file with the county election commissioners a petition of nomination signed by not less than fifty (50) qualified electors of the area to be represented by the office which the candidate seeks, either for a full term or an unexpired term, as the case may be, and an affidavit by the candidate stating the candidate's qualifications. The petition shall contain an affidavit certifying that all signatures are the personal signatures of each person whose name appears on the petition and that each person is a qualified elector.
Unless the petition and affidavit required above shall be filed by 5:00 p.m. not less than sixty (60) days before the election, the name of the candidate shall not be considered in the election, and votes cast for any person who has failed to qualify shall not be counted in the election.
(3) If after the time for candidates to file the petition and affidavit required under subsection (1) or (2) of this section there should be only one (1) person to qualify for the office of trustee, then no election or notice of election shall be necessary and such person shall, if otherwise qualified, be declared elected without opposition.
SECTION 3. Section 37-7-215, Mississippi Code of 1972, is brought forward as follows:
37-7-215. All such elections shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November and, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, in accordance with procedures followed in regular general elections. In the event a runoff is necessary, such runoff shall be held three (3) weeks thereafter.
SECTION 4. Section 37-7-217, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
37-7-217. (1) Except as otherwise provided under subsection (2) for municipal separate school districts having added territory, the qualified electors of each school district operating under Section 37-7-215 * * * shall meet on the date specified therein and at the time and place or places specified by the board of trustees of the school district, and at such meeting the electors shall immediately organize by electing a chairman and a secretary of the meeting and shall thereupon proceed to elect the necessary number of trustees by secret written ballot from the list of candidates properly qualified. If there is an election for a full term and for an unexpired term or terms, such election shall be separately held and conducted. The person elected shall immediately assume the duties of his office for the full term if the election is for the full term, or for the remainder of the unexpired term if the election is for an unexpired term. The chairman and secretary of the meeting shall forthwith certify the results of the election to the superintendent of the municipal separate or special municipal separate school district, as the case may be, which certificate shall be delivered to such superintendent within five (5) days following said election. If a person shall not receive a majority of the votes cast upon the first ballot, a runoff shall be held between the two (2) persons receiving the highest number of votes upon such first ballot, which runoff shall be held three (3) weeks thereafter. No trustees' election shall be discontinued or adjourned but same shall be completed upon the day specified therefor.
(2) The qualified electors of each municipal separate school district having added territory shall report, at the general election, to their regular voting precincts to cast votes to elect trustees from the added territory of the municipal separate school district. The county election commissioner shall certify the results of the election to the governing authority of the municipality and to the superintendent of the municipal separate school district, which certificate shall be delivered to those officials within five (5) days following the election. If a person does not receive a majority of the votes cast upon the first ballot, a runoff shall be held between the two (2) persons receiving the highest number of votes upon such first ballot, which runoff shall be held three (3) weeks thereafter. No trustees' election shall be discontinued or adjourned but same shall be completed upon the day specified therefor.
SECTION 5. Section 37-7-219, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
37-7-219. (1) Except as otherwise provided under subsection (2) for municipal separate school districts having added territory, for the purpose of holding such an election, it shall be the duty of the trustees of such school district whose terms do not expire in that year to prepare from the records in the office of the county registrar a list of the qualified electors of such school district who are eligible to participate in such election. Such list shall be furnished to the chairman and secretary of said meeting. No person who is not present at the time and place of holding said election shall be eligible to vote therein.
(2) For the purpose of holding an election for a trustee from the added territory of a municipal separate school district having added territory, it shall be the duty of the county election commissioners to prepare from the records in the office of the county registrar separate lists of the qualified electors of the added territory of the school district who reside in the precinct and who are eligible to participate in the election. The list shall be furnished to the election managers in each precinct, together with the ballots and other election supplies.
For each day spent in carrying out the provisions of Sections 37-7-203 through 37-7-219, the county election commissioners shall be paid at the rate prescribed by law.
SECTION 6. If any one or more sections, clauses, sentences or parts of this act is adjudged unconstitutional or invalid, or fails to be precleared by the Attorney General of the United States or the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, the judgment or failure to preclear shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remaining provisions of this act, and the judgment or failure to preclear shall be confined in its operation to the specific provisions so held invalid, and inapplicability or invalidity of any such section, clause, provision or part shall not be taken to affect or prejudice in any way the remaining part or parts of this act.
SECTION 7. The Attorney General of the State of Mississippi shall submit this act, immediately upon approval by the Governor, or upon approval by the Legislature subsequent to a veto, to the Attorney General of the United States or to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in accordance with the provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended and extended.
SECTION 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the date it is effectuated under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended and extended.
