Senator GOLDFINCH proposed the following amendment (5034R009.SP.SLG):

Amend the bill, as and if amended, by adding appropriately numbered new SECTIONS to read:

/SECTION__. If a person establishes a new residence in Charleston County and the school to which the new residence is assigned is fifteen or more road miles away from his new residence, then the receiving constitutent school district must accept a child residing in the newly established residence.

SECTION __.If any section, subsection, paragraph, subparagraph, sentence, clause, phrase, or word of this act is for any reason held to be unconstitutional or invalid, then such holding shall not affect the constitutionality or validity of the remaining portions of this act, the General Assembly hereby declaring that it would have passed this act and each and every section, subsection, paragraph, subparagraph, sentence, clause, phrase, and word thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more other sections, subsections, paragraphs, subparagraphs, sentences, clauses, phrases, or words hereof may be declared to be unconstitutional, invalid, or otherwise ineffective. /