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.