View Amendment Current Amendment: 197 to Bill 3701 Reps. COBB-HUNTER, RUTHERFORD, W.J. MCLEOD, MITCHELL proposes the following Amendment No. 197 to H.3701 as introduced by Ways & Means
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EXPLANATION:

Amend the bill, as and if amended, SECTION 118, STATEWIDE REVENUE, page 576, after line 16, by adding an appropriately numbered paragraph to read:

/ 118.___.      (SR: Prohibition on Appropriations)       (A)      Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, except as provided in subsections (B) and (C), the State Treasurer must not release any funds related to a lawsuit in which there is a legal settlement awarded to the State which is secured by the Office of the Attorney General in the current fiscal year. Also, the State Treasurer may not release any funds attributable to unclaimed property from Fiscal Year 2015-2016, except amounts appropriated pursuant to paragraph 118.14.
     (B)      The State Treasurer may expend the funds otherwise prohibited from release in subsection (A) to fulfill the requirements of Part III.
     (C)      The prohibition in subsection (A) does not apply to projects which are funded both in this Part IB and Part III. If a project is funded in both this Part IB and Part III, then the project must be funded pursuant to the Part IB to the fullest extent funds are available and the bond authorization for the same project in Part III must be considered unauthorized. /

Amend further by striking Part III in its entirety and inserting:

/ PART III

TO AMEND ACT 1377 OF 1968, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF STATE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT BONDS, SO AS TO AUTHORIZE ADDITIONAL PROJECTS AND CONFORM THE AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL INDEBTEDNESS AMOUNT TO THE ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS AUTHORIZED HEREBY, AND TO PROVIDE THAT THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 2-7-105 OF THE 1976 CODE DO NOT APPLY TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS PART.

A.      Item (f) of Section 3 of Act 1377 of 1968, as last amended by Act 308 of 2012, is further amended by adding:

     (1)      H63 - Department of Education K-12 Initiatives            $      50,000,000
     (2)      P32 - Department of Commerce Regionalized Economic Development
           Infrastructure            $      60,000,000
     (3)      H59 - State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education Pathways to Workplace
            Infrastructure Development            $      50,000,000
     (4)      H59 - State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education
            Northeastern Technical College - Industrial
            Training Center Renovations
            and Expansion (Bennettsville and Pageland)            $       2,000,000
     (5)      H59 - State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education
            Greenville Technical College - Center
            for Manufacturing and Innovation Building            $       2,000,000
     (6)      H59 - State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education York
            Technical College - Loop Road Completion            $       2,800,000
     (7)      H59 - State Board for Technical and Comprehensive
            Education Horry-Georgetown Technical
            College - Acquisition of Building for Advanced
            Manufacturing Center            $       2,500,000
     (8)      H59 - State Board for Technical and Comprehensive
            Education Trident Technical
            College - Aeronautical Training Center            $      35,000,000
     (9)      H59 - State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education
            Piedmont Technical College - Phase III Center for
            Advanced Manufacturing            $       1,500,000
     (10)      H59 - State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education
            Florence-Darlington Technical College - QuickJobs Pee Dee      $       1,490,000
     (11)      H59 - State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education
            Spartanburg Community College - Composite
            Manufacturing Training Center            $       1,500,000
     (12)      H59 - State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education
            Central Carolina Technical College - Kershaw Campus
            Expansion and Building #400            $       2,250,000
     (13)      H59 - State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education
            Denmark Technical College - Building #200 and
            #300 Renovation            $       1,800,000
     (14)      H59 - State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education
            Technical College of the Lowcountry - New River
            Campus Road Improvements            $       1,263,000
     (15)      H59 - State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education
            Tri-County Technical College - Engineering and Industrial
            Technology Program Expansion            $       2,000,000
     (16)      H59 - State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education
            Central Carolina Technical College Workforce Center            $       5,000,000
     (17)      J20 - Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services
            Act 301 Behavioral Health Services            $       5,000,000
     (18)      J12 - Department of Mental Health
            Construction Projects & Deferred Maintenance            $       5,000,000
     (19)      J02 - Department of Health and Human Services
            Statewide Telemedicine Infrastructure            $      20,000,000
     (20)      B04 - Judicial Department      Calhoun Building Renovations            $       9,200,000
     (21)      N04 - Department of Corrections Deferred Maintenance            $       5,000,000
     (22)      D10 - State Law Enforcement Division New Laboratory Facility            $      12,000,000
     (23)      D10 - State Law Enforcement Division
            Advanced Law Enforcement Training Center            $      10,000,000
     (24)      H51 - Medical University of South Carolina
            Hospital Authority - Children's Hospital            $      50,000,000
     (25)      H09 - The Citadel Byrd Hall Organic Chemistry Lab Renovation            $       1,355,300
     (26)      H09 - The Citadel Duckett Hall and Library HVAC            $       2,000,000
     (27)      H12 - Clemson University - Education and General
            Business and Behavioral Science Building            $      15,000,000
     (28)      H15 - University of Charleston Simons Center for the Arts            $       2,000,000
     (29)      H15 - University of Charleston Stern Center Repurposing            $      10,000,000
     (30)      H17 - Coastal Carolina University Science
            Complex - College of Science            $      10,000,000
     (31)      H18 - Francis Marion University
            Business/Education School Building            $       7,500,000
     (32)      H21 - Lander University Montessori Education Building            $       2,000,000
     (33)      H27 - University of South Carolina - Columbia Campus
            Old Law School Renovation            $      15,000,000
     (34)      H27 - University of South Carolina - Columbia Campus
            South Caroliniana Library            $       5,000,000
     (35)      H29 - USC - Aiken Campus
            Robert Bell Parkway Pedestrian Bridge            $       1,000,000
     (36)      H36 - USC - Beaufort Campus
            Hilton Head Gateway Campus Classroom Building            $       7,000,000
     (37)      H39 - USC - Sumter Campus Library            $       3,500,000
     (38)      H47 - Winthrop University Library            $      15,000,000
     (39)      D50 - Department of Administration
            Deferred Maintenance for State Owned Buildings            $      20,000,000
     (40)      E24 - Office of Adjutant General Armory Deferred Maintenance            $      15,000,000
     (41)      H79 - Department of Archives and History
            Restoration and Repurposing of Fireproof Building            $       1,500,000
     (42)      P28 - Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism
            State Welcome Centers Renovations            $      10,000,000
     (43)      P28 - Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism
            State Parks Improvements and Deferred Maintenance            $      15,000,000
     (44)      P28 - Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism
            African-American History Museum            $       2,000,000
     (45)      H59 - State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education
           Midlands Technical College - MTC Center for
           Rapid Employment            $       1,500,000
     (46)      H59 - State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education
            Aiken Technical College - Advanced Manufacturing and
            Industrial Equipment            $       1,500,000
     (47)      H59 - State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education
            Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College - Nursing Health
            Allied Sciences/Nursing Building            $       1,000,000
     (48)      H24 - South Carolina State University
            Boiler Plant Decentralization, Building Demolition            $       5,440,000
     (49)      H59 - State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education
            Bridge Tech - Advance Manufacturing STEM Learning Center -
            Spartanburg Expansion            $       2,500,000
     TOTAL            $ 509,098,300
     
B.      Section 4 of Act 1377 of 1968, as last amended by Act 1 of 2001, is further amended to read:

     "Section 4. The aggregate principal indebtedness on account of bonds issued pursuant to this act may not exceed $2,583,904,475 $3,093,002,775. The limitation imposed by the provisions of the section does not apply to bonds issued on behalf of the Mental Health Commission as provided in Acts 1276 and 1272 of 1970 or to bonds issued on behalf of the Commission on Mental Retardation as provided in Act 1087 of 1970 or to bonds issued on behalf of the South Carolina Fire Academy. The limitation imposed by the provisions of this section is not considered to be an obligation of the contract made between the State and holders of bonds issued pursuant to this act, and the limitation imposed by the provisions of this section may be enlarged by acts amending it or reduced by the application of the Capital Reserve Fund or by amendments of this act. Within these limitations state capital improvement bonds may be issued under the conditions prescribed by this act."

C.      Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the provisions of Section 2-7-105 of the 1976 Code do not apply to the provisions of this part.

D.      No funds for the projects authorized in Subsection (A) shall be released until January 1, 2016.

E.      If a project authorized in subsection A of this Part is funded pursuant to Part IB of this act, then the bond authorization contained in subsection A must be considered unauthorized.

END PART III /

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