Governor Henry McMaster issued his vetoes for the state budget on Wednesday, June 22.
There are no vetoes specific to Clemson University’s legislative priorities.
As a recap, the state budget for FY2022-23 contains the following for Clemson University and Clemson PSA:
Clemson E&G
– $9.9 million in recurring funding for tuition mitigation
*In order to retain the above appropriations, each institution of higher learning listed above must certify to the Commission on Higher Education by August 15, 2022, there is no in state undergraduate tuition or in state undergraduate mandatory fee increase, excluding increases in auxiliary fees, for the 2022-2023 academic year.
– $35 million in nonrecurring funding for maintenance, renovation and replacement
Clemson PSA
– $2 million in recurring funding for Rural Health Cooperative Extension and Research
– $750,000 in recurring funding for Laboratory Services Support
– $750,000 in recurring funding for Integrated Agriculture Technology
– $3.626 million in nonrecurring funding for Critical PSA Infrastructure
– $7 million in nonrecurring funding for Edisto Research and Education Center Research Infrastructure Upgrades and Expansion
– $1.375 million in nonrecurring funding for Poultry Science Research Facility
– $10 million in nonrecurring lottery dollars for the exploration of a Clemson University College of Veterinary Medicine.
The final budget also included several items of interest from the Executive Budget:
– $70 million in nonrecurring lottery dollars for need based grants at the Commission on Higher Education. This would represent approximately $5.83 million in additional need based grant opportunities for Clemson students.
– $20 million in nonrecurring tuition grants at the Higher Education Tuition Grants Commission. These dollars are beneficial to students attending private higher education institutions.
– $4.1 million in nonrecurring lottery dollars for students with intellectual disabilities attending college transition programs. This represents additional funding for ClemsonLIFE.
– $10 million in nonrecurring dollars for the nursing initiative for the recruitment and retention of nursing students, faculty, etc.
The budget recommends a 3% pay increase and a one-time bonus of $1500 for state employees. Funds for doing so is a combination of funding from the state and the University. As such, higher education institutions are allowed flexibility to award the pay increase and the one-time bonus without uniformity, based upon merit/performance and within each institution’s financial capacity to do so.
The final budget suspends of Act 35 of 2021 pertaining to college athletes name, image and likeness (NIL). This proviso has the support of Clemson and our fellow higher education institutions who are working together to ensure competitiveness in athletics.