Amend CSHB 7 as follows:
      (1)  On  page 8, line 27, strike "and".
      (2)  On page 9, line 3, between "communities" and the period
insert ";
            (8)  ensure that the office qualifies as the state's
office of rural health for the purpose of receiving grants from the
Office of Rural Health Policy of the United States Department of
Health and Human Services under 42 U.S.C. Section 254r; and
            (9)  manage the state's Medicare rural hospital
flexibility program under 42 U.S.C. Section 1395i-4".