Amend HB 1398 as follows: (1) In SECTION 1.13, in amended Section 61.037, Health and Safety Code (senate committee printing, page 7, lines 30-38), strike added Subsection (j). (2) In ARTICLE 1, following SECTION 1.13 (senate committee printing, page 7, between lines 56 and 57), insert new SECTION 1.14 to read as follows and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of ARTICLE 1 of the bill accordingly: SECTION 1.14. Subchapter B, Chapter 61, Health and Safety Code, is amended by adding Section 61.0395 to read as follows: Sec. 61.0395. LIMITED TO APPROPRIATED FUNDS. (a) The total amount of state assistance provided to counties under this chapter for a fiscal year may not exceed the amount appropriated for that purpose for that fiscal year. (b) The department shall adopt rules governing the distribution of state assistance under this chapter that establish a maximum annual allocation for each county eligible for assistance under this chapter in compliance with Subsection (a). (c) The rules adopted under this section: (1) may consider the relative populations of the service areas of eligible counties and other appropriate factors; and (2) notwithstanding Subsection (b), may provide for, at the end of each state fiscal year, the reallocation of all money that is allocated to a county under Subsection (b) but that the county is not eligible to receive and the distribution of that money to other eligible counties. (3) At the end of ARTICLE 1 of the bill (senate committee printing, page 10, between lines 65 and 66), insert the following SECTION, appropriately numbered: SECTION 1.____. For fiscal years 2000 and 2001, the rules adopted under Section 61.0395(b), Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act, must ensure that each county's annual allocation is equal to at least the average estimated annual amount of state assistance that the county would have been eligible to receive during each of the state fiscal years ending on August 31, 1997, August 31, 1998, and August 31, 1999, computed as if the eligibility threshold established by Section 61.037, Health and Safety Code, as amended by this Act, and the state match rate established by Section 61.038, Health and Safety Code, as amended by this Act, had applied during those fiscal years.