COLUMBIA, S.C. - The House of Representatives whisked through the state budget on Tuesday, unanimously approving a $5.8 billion measure lawmakers hailed as a boost in funds for education, law enforcement and health care.

"This is a truly historic day in the South Carolina House," House Speaker David Wilkins said.

"In my 25 years, we've never had a unanimous vote on the budget," Wilkins, R-Greenville, said in a statement. "It was debated and passed in tremendous bipartisan spirit."

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle were enthusiastic.

"We got our major issues addressed," said House Minority Leader Rep. Harry Ott, D-St. Matthews. "It was a wonderful bipartisan effort."

Besides the money for education, Ott said Democrats approved of the $67 million in additional Medicaid funding, as well as the 4 percent pay increase for state employees and increased funding for water and sewer needs in rural areas.

The measure, which was passed on a 107-0 roll call vote without any major amendments, will be sent to the Senate after routine final approval Wednesday.

House Ways and Means Chairman Bobby Harrell said the budget addresses the state's priorities.

"We addressed sorely needed increases in law enforcement pay and made significant repayments to trust funds," said Harrell, R-Charleston.

Money from the state trust funds has been used in past years to help balance the budget. "This is the first major step on the road to budget recovery," Harrell said.

Legislators had raided a fund set up to cover future environmental cleanup costs at the Barnwell low-level nuclear waste site to keep the state budget out of the red during the past three years. The House gave the Barnwell fund $25 million, the Insurance Reserve Fund $3.5 million and the Patients Compensation Fund was fully restored at $1.5 million.

Gov. Mark Sanford's spokesman Will Folks said the House action did not go far enough to meet the governor's request that the trust and reserve funds be fully funded.

"We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to put our state's fiscal house in order," said Folks. "This is one stage in the process and we have a long way to go."

Sanford also wanted the Legislature to use the budget bill to reconfigure some state agencies, but the body largely ignored that.

For education, the budget sets per-pupil spending at $2,290 for all public school students. Overall, public school spending increases by $299 million, according to the statement from Wilkins' office.

The bill boosts money for teachers to buy supplies to $250 from $200 per teacher, increases money for summer schools by $10 million to $31 million, puts $12.3 million aside for instructional materials and sets aside $18 million for school buses.

The lawmakers also rejected Sanford's move to reduce funding for the state's higher education system and gave it $23.5 million more than the governor had sought.

The budget also boosts the state's ranks of law enforcement officers, adding 124 corrections officers, 118 Department of Juvenile Justice officers, 100 state Highway Patrol troopers, 20 State Law Enforcement Division agents, 10 Department of Natural Resources agents and four new criminal prosecutors.

The House also provided a 10 percent pay increase for most law enforcement officers.

The 500-plus page spending plan is the first in four years that does not contain steep agency spending cuts. The 2006 budget would take affect July 1.