Posted on Wed, Jun. 04, 2003


-- AGENCY BUDGETS
Most state agencies would be cut again this year under the state budget approved Tuesday by the General Assembly. Here are the amounts to be appropriated to several state agencies in the fiscal year that begins July 1. The percent change compares the money to be received next year with the amount each received this fiscal year.


Agency State budget percent change

Adjutant General $6,919,451 -5%
Agriculture $5,200,870 -7%
Alcohol & Other Drug Abuse Services $8,030,993 -13%
Archives & History $3,540,213 -7%
Arts Commission $3,419,128 -11%
Attorney General $7,426,283 +4%
Citadel $14,170,379 -10%
Clemson University $86,806,777 -10%
Coastal Carolina Univ. $11,327,050 -10%
Commerce $11,818,206 -3%
Commission for the Blind $3,014,236 -6%
Consumer Affairs $1,669,612 -11%
Corrections $264,085,573 +4%
Disabilities/Special Needs $140,627,336 +4%
Education $1,791,051,333 +3%
Educational TV $14,397,182 -11%
Forestry $14,832,673 -8%
Francis Marion University $12,760,567 -10%
Health/Env. Control $106,968,543 +2%
Health/Human Services $737,918,751 +40%
House of Representatives $10,472,909 -1%
Human Affairs $1,765,077 -9%
Indigent Defense $3,551,034 -9%
Insurance $3,824,647 -9%
Juvenile Justice $72,846,173 +11%
Labor, Licensing & Regulation $4,798,729 -11%
Lander University $9,168,173 -10%
Lieutenant Governor $274,390 -6%
Mental Health $174,313,293 +7%
Minority Affairs $364,424 -9%
MUSC $82,523,657 -10%
Natural Resources $20,725,109 -14%
Parks, Recreation, Tourism $32,500,788 +4%
Public Safety $90,203,632 -10%
Revenue $29,856,610 -7%
S.C. State $20,173,230 -10%
School for the Deaf & Blind $11,738,769 -6%
Senate $8,931,502 -1%
Social Services $93,299,823 -5%
State Library $6,767,490 -10%
State Museum $4,643,480 -3%
Treasurer $2,496,063 -16%
University Of Charleston $26,398,432 -10%
USC Aiken $9,444,015 -10%
USC Beaufort $2,015,868 -10%
USC $149,784,096 -10%
USC Lancaster $2,333,227 -10%
USC Salkehatchie $2,046,481 -10%
USC Spartanburg $10,642,405 -10%
USC Sumter $3,747,817 -10%
USC Union $914,325 -10%
Winthrop University $19,736,734 -10%




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