Senator Grooms proposes the following amendment (SR-3313.JG0001S):

Amend the bill, as and if amended, by adding an appropriately numbered SECTION to read:

SECTION X. Article 1, Chapter 17, Title 14 of the S.C. Code is amended by adding:

 Section 14-17-15. No person is eligible to hold the office of clerk of court who is not at the time of his election:
  (1) a citizen of the United States and of this State;
  (2) at least twenty-one years old;
  (3) a qualified elector of the county in which he is to be clerk of court; and
  (4)(a) a graduate from an accredited post-secondary institution with a bachelor's degree, or
   (b) has at least eight years experience as an employee in a county clerk of court's office in this State if he has not received a four-year bachelor's degree.

Amend the bill further, by striking SECTION and inserting:

SECTION X.  The provisions contained in Section 14-17-15, as added to the S.C. Code by this act, do not apply to a person serving as county clerk on the effective date of this act for the remainder of his current term or any subsequent, consecutive term.