Amend CSHB 1676 as follows:
      (1) On page 1, line 5, strike "and 403.1065" and substitute
"403.1065, and 403.1066".
      (2) On page 7, between lines 3 and 4, insert the following:
      Sec. 403.1066. PERMANENT FUND FOR URBAN HEALTH FACILITY
CAPITOL IMPROVEMENT. (a) The permanent fund for urban health
facility capitol improvement is a special fund in the state
treasury outside the general revenue fund.  The fund is composed
of:
            (1) money transferred to the fund at the direction of
the legislature;
            (2) payments  of interest and principal on loans made
under Chapter 46, Health and Safety Code, and fees collected under
that chapter;
            (3) gifts and grants contributed to the fund; and
            (4) the interest received from investment of money in
the fund.
      (b) Except as provided by Subsections (c), (d), and (e),
money in the fund may not be appropriated for any purpose.
      (c) The interest received from investment of the fund may be
appropriated to the Texas Department of Health for the purposes of
Chapter 46, Health and Safety Code.
      (d) The comptroller may solicit and accept gifts and grants
to the fund.  A gift or grant to the fund may be appropriated in
the same manner as the interest received from investment of the
fund, subject to any limitation or requirement placed on the gift
or grant by the donor or granting entity.
      (e) Money in the fund may also be appropriated to pay any
amount of money that the federal government determines that the
state should repay to the federal government or that the federal
government should recoup from the state in the event of national
legislation regarding the subject matter of the case styled The
State of Texas v. The American Tobacco Co., et al., No. 5-96CV-91,
in the United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas.
      (f) Sections 403.095 and 404.071 do not apply to the fund.
      (3) On page 9, between lines 11 and 12, insert new SECTION 3
to read as follows:
      SECTION 3.  Subtitle B, Title 2, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Chapter 46 to read as follows:
       CHAPTER 46. URBAN HEALTH FACILITY CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT
      Sec. 46.001. DEFINITIONS.  In this subchapter:
            (1) "Public hospital" means a general or special
hospital licensed under Chapter 241 that is owned or operated by a
municipality, county, municipality and county, hospital district,
or hospital authority and that performs inpatient or outpatient
services.
            (2) "Urban county" means a county that is not a rural
county for purposes of Subchapter G, Chapter 106.
      Sec. 46.002. POWERS OF DEPARTMENT.  In administering this
chapter, the department may:
      (1) enter into and enforce contracts and execute and deliver
conveyances and other instruments necessary to make and