This amendment distributes funding provided by the General Assembly as part of the 2023 Special Session I, Chapter 1 in Item 255.50 A. which directed that the funding for affordable access "shall be ongoing and incorporated into each institution's base budget for the next biennium." The introduced budget eliminated those funds. There are seventeen companion amendments, one at each public higher education institution, which allocate the fundings in accordance with the intent of the General Assembly.