Requires, beginning in 2024, that the Henderson County Board of Public Education (Board) be elected on a partisan basis at the time of the general election in each even-numbered year as terms expire for four-year terms. Requires elections to be conducted in accordance with GS Chapters 115C (Elementary and Secondary Education) and 163 (Elections and Election Law). Requires candidates to be nominated at the same time and manner as other county officers. Requires Board members to take office on the first Monday in December of the year of election, at which time the terms of their predecessors expire. Requires members to serve until a successor has been elected and qualified.

Sets out the following requirements for filling Board vacancies: (1) requires vacancies for positions elected on a nonpartisan basis in 2020 or 2022 to be filled by the remaining members of the Board until the next election of the members of the Board, at which time the remaining unexpired term of the office in which the vacancy occurs must be filled by election; (2) requires vacancies for positions elected on a partisan basis in 2024 and thereafter to be filled by appointment by the remaining members of the Board in accordance with GS 115C-37.1 (vacancies in offices of county boards elected on a partisan basis in certain counties); and (3) requires a person appointed to fill a vacancy be a resident of the seat in which the vacancy occurs.

Specifies that these provisions do not affect the terms of office of any person elected to the Board in 2020 or 2022. Require Board members elected in 2020 or 2022, or any member appointed by the remaining members of the Board to fill a vacancy of a member elected in 2020 or 2022, to serve until a successor has been elected and qualified.

Makes conforming changes to GS 115C-37.1(d). Effective December 1, 2024.