View Amendment Current Amendment: 1a to Bill 4814 Reps. WHITE, BINGHAM, HERBKERSMAN, LIMEHOUSE, MERRILL, PITTS, SIMRILL, G.M. SMITH, and J.R. SMITH propose the following Amendment No. to H.4814
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EXPLANATION:

Amend the joint resolution, as and if amended, by striking all after the enacting words and inserting:

/ SECTION      1.      In accordance with the provisions of Section 36(B)(2) and (3), Article III, Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, and Section 11-11-320(C) and (D) of the 1976 Code, there is appropriated from the monies available in the Capital Reserve Fund for Fiscal Year 2011-2012 the following amounts:

     (1)      R60-Department of Employment
           and Workforce
           SUTA Tax Relief            $      47,000,000
     (2)      H59-State Board for Technical and
           Comprehensive Education
           CATT Program / ready SC      $      13,250,000
     (3)      H59-State Board for Technical and
           Comprehensive Education
           Trident Technical College
           Aeronautical Training
           Equipment            $      575,000
     (4)      H59-State Board for Technical and
           Comprehensive Education
           Orangeburg-Calhoun
           Technical college
           Programmable Logic
           Controller Equipment      $      500,000
     (5)      H59-State Board for Technical and
           Comprehensive Education
           Denmark Technical College
           Deferred Maintenance      $      250,000
     (6)      J02-Department of Health and
           Human Services
           Medicaid Management
           Information System      $      3,238,588
     (7)      H03-Commission on Higher Education
           Deferred Maintenance            $      13,000,000
     (8)      H09-The Citadel
           Jenkins Hall Arms
           Room Upgrade      $      200,000
     (9)      H09-The Citadel
           Deferred Maintenance      $      737,691
     (10)      H12-Clemson University
           Deferred Maintenance      $      1,595,044
     (11)      H15-University of Charleston
           Science Center Construction      $      1,924,246
     (12)      H17-Coastal Carolina University
           Research Vessel            $      948,366
     (13)      H18-Francis Marion University
           Nurse Practitioner Program      $      100,000
     (14)      H18-Francis Marion University
           Deferred Maintenance      $      1,141,069
     (15)      H21-Lander University
           Deferred Maintenance      $      646,417
     (16)      H24-South Carolina State University
           independent financial audit      $      1,255,979
     (17)      H27-University of South Carolina
           Columbia Campus
           USC Palmetto College      $      2,115,000
     (18)      H27-University of South Carolina
           Columbia Campus
           USC Law School      $      3,500,000
     (19)      H29-USC-Aiken Campus
           Deferred Maintenance      $      553,795
     (20)      H34-USC-Upstate Campus
           Deferred Maintenance      $      729,126
     (21)      H36-USC-Beaufort Campus
           Deferred Maintenance      $      327,207
     (22)      H37-USC-Lancaster Campus
           Deferred Maintenance      $      137,302
     (23)      H38-USC-Salkehatchie Campus
           Deferred Maintenance      $      116,979
     (24)      H39-USC-Sumter Campus
           Deferred Maintenance      $      367,869
     (25)      H40-USC-Union Campus
           Deferred Maintenance      $      53,290
     (26)      H47-Winthrop University
           Student Information Technology
           Infrastructure Update      $      500,000
     (27)      H47-Winthrop University
           Deferred Maintenance      $      1,374,947
     (28)      H51-Medical University of
           South Carolina
            Ashley Tower
           Renovation - MUSC
           Hospital Authority      $      5,500,000
     (29)      H51-Medical University of
           South Carolina
           Deferred Maintenance      $      3,200,000
           $      104,837,915

SECTION      2.      The funds appropriated herein to the Department of Employment and Workforce may only be used by the department to make payments on outstanding loans from the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund. As soon as practicable after the effective date of this Joint Resolution, the Department of Employment and Workforce is directed to recalculate premium rates. The recalculated premium rates shall be retroactive to January 1, 2011. Any cost savings to employers in rate class 2-20 due to general fund appropriations in any particular year must be allocated proportionately to each employer with respect to each respective employer's responsibility in paying back the federal unemployment loan that particular year and must be administered by the department. Employers must be notified of changes in the premiums due and employer accounts must be credited and adjusted as appropriate. The Department of Employment and Workforce is directed to contact the Federal Government by August 1, 2012, to maximize efforts to buy the loan down to the greatest extent possible.

SECTION      3.      Of the Funds appropriated herein to South Carolina State University for an independent financial audit, the university shall retain an audit firm to conduct a complete financial review of the university's financial status and procedures. The qualifications by which a firm is selected shall be determined by working with the State Auditor's Office. Any funds not used to pay for the audit shall be retained and utilized to correct any findings of the audit as determined and authorized by the General Assembly.

SECTION      4.      All funds received herein by the Commission on Higher Education for deferred maintenance shall be distributed to state supported public four-year universities, two-year institutions of higher learning, and technical colleges on a pro rata basis. The distribution methodology to be used by the commission shall be based on each institution's proportion of general fund appropriation in Part IA of Act 73 of 2011 as compared to the total general fund appropriation in that Act for all public four-year universities and two-year institutions of higher learning.

SECTION      5.      The Comptroller General shall post the appropriations contained in this joint resolution as provided in Section 11-11-320(D) of the 1976 Code. Unexpended funds appropriated pursuant to this joint resolution may be carried forward to succeeding fiscal years and expended for the same purposes.

SECTION      6.      This joint resolution takes effect thirty days after the completion of the 2011-2012 fiscal year in accordance with the provisions of Section 36(B)(3)(a), Article III, Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, and Section 11-11-320(D)(1) of the 1976 Code. /

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