Senator GROOMS proposed the following amendment (3696R003.SP.LKG):

Amend the bill, as and if amended, page 1, by striking lines 28 through 33, in Section 14-5-610(B), as contained in SECTION 1, and inserting the following:

/ "(B) (1) One judge must be elected from the second, sixth, and twelfth circuits. Two judges must be elected from the first, second, third, fourth, seventh, eighth, tenth, eleventh, fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth circuits. Three judges must be elected from the fifth, and ninth fourteenth, and fifteenth circuits. Four judges must be elected from the ninth and thirteenth circuits.

(2) For the circuits in which three or more judges are elected, there shall not be more than three judges elected from the same county." /