Floor Packet Page No. 87
      Amend CSSB 1 as follows:
      (1) under the Article XI appropriation to the Department of
Health (page XI-11), add the following appropriately numbered
rider:
      CONTINGENT APPROPRIATION: MEDICAID AND CHIP REIMBURSEMENT
RATES.  Contingent on the enactment of House Bill 2469 or similar
legislation of the 77th Legislature relating to rates and
expenditures under the Medicaid and state child health plan program
in strategic investment areas and in addition to other amounts
appropriated by this Act, the sum of $142,550,090 is hereby
appropriated out of the General Revenue Fund to the Department of
Health for the fiscal year ending August 31, 2002, for the purpose
of eliminating reimbursement disparities, and the additional sum of
$152,059,221 is hereby appropriated out of the General Revenue Fund
to the Department of Health for the fiscal year ending August 31,
2003.
      (2) Adjust the article totals (page XI-11) accordingly.