View Amendment Current Amendment: 535R006.SRM.DOCX to Bill 535     Senator S. MARTIN proposed the following amendment (535R006.SRM):
    Amend the bill, as and if amended, page 2, by striking lines 22-25 and inserting:

/         (4)     'Enterprise activities' means those programs or functions primarily related to economic development, graduate level research related to economic development, and athletics, with each activity requiring a private match of at least one half of the total amount expended on the activity. Each program or function constitutes an enterprise activity. To meet the matching requirement, an enterprise division may use funds specifically provided for use that are derived from private or federal sources, excluding state appropriations to the institution, tuition, or fees. Only federal dollars received after July 1, 2013, may be used to meet the matching requirement.     /

Amend the bill further, as and if amended, page 3, by striking line 37 and inserting:

/ be provided not more than sixty days after the end of /

Amend the bill further, as and if amended, page 4, by striking lines 13-14 and inserting:

/ Clemson University and must be provided not more than sixty days after the end of the fiscal year. /

Amend the bill further, as and if amended, page 5, by striking line 29 and inserting:

/ more than sixty days after the end of the fiscal year. /

Amend the bill further, as and if amended, page 6, by striking lines 16-40 and inserting:

/         (D)     The board of trustees shall adopt for the enterprise division a procurement policy and amend the policy as it considers appropriate. Before the implementation of the procurement policy, or any amendment thereto, the policy or amendment must be approved by the State Budget and Control Board. Thereafter, every procurement of the enterprise division is exempt from the SCCPC and each such procurement instead is subject to the procurement policy adopted by the board. /

Amend the bill further, as and if amended, page 7, by striking lines 6-13 and inserting:

/         Section 59-119-1170.     Four years after the adoption of a resolution providing for the allocation to the enterprise division of the transferable items of one or more enterprise activities pursuant to Section 59-119-1130(C), and every four years thereafter, the provisions of this act must be reauthorized by the adoption of a joint resolution by the General Assembly, in separate legislation and solely for that purpose. If this act, or any part thereof, is not reauthorized by a two thirds vote, those provisions are no longer effective. Prior to the end of the four years after the initial adoption of a resolution providing for the allocation to the enterprise division of the transferable items of one or more enterprise activities pursuant to Section 59-119-1130(C), the State Budget and Control Board shall submit to the General Assembly a plan prepared by an independent consultant with input from the board of trustees, for Clemson University to become a private institution, independent of state appropriated funds, with the retention of all land, buildings, structures, and facilities maintained by the institution as of the effective date of this act and the plan shall include a description of the specific enterprise activities to aid the institution in becoming self supporting. /

    Renumber sections to conform.
    Amend title to conform.