It has been found by the General Assembly that adequate construction, equipping, maintenance, and operation of facilities for the Department of Correction and the state-supported institutions of higher education are essential to the well-being of this state and that the pledging of the motor vehicles safety inspection fee, the fees derived from the agriculture and livestock activities and rentals of farm properties, the fees collected from the sale or disposition of articles and products manufactured through the operations of the prison industries program, and the rental fees collected by state-supported institutions of higher education from tenants other than state agencies is essential to the fulfillment of the purposes of this subchapter.