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Floor Packet Page No. 234                                                   

	
Amend CSHB 1 as follows:                                                     
	In Article II, Special Provisions, add the following 
appropriately numbered Section:
	SEC._____.  Contingency provisions for HB 267.  Contingent 
upon the enactment of the Seventy-Eighth Legislature, regular 
session, of HB 267, or similar legislation increasing the user fee 
on cigarettes, the amount of General Revenue generated by the user 
fee, estimated to be $1,500,000,000 billion dollars for the 
biennium, shall be allocated to the following programs in the order 
listed below by priority:
	1.  $60,000,000 for Tobacco Cessation Account.                                 
	2.  $309,900,000 for community care for elderly and disabled 
individuals.    
	3.  $276,500,000 for Medicaid provider rates to fiscal 2003 
levels.          
	4.  $92,100,000 for prenatal care and delivery for pregnant 
women with incomes between 134-185% of the federal poverty level.
	5.  $215,500,000 for children with income eligibility of up 
to 200% of the federal poverty level covered by CHIP, SKIP, and 
School Employee Children's Insurance.
	6.  for Children's Medicaid simplification:                                    
		a.  $45,700,000 for mail in application and renewal for 
Children's Medicaid;
		b.  $107,300,000 for a less strict assets test; and                           
	7.  $9,700,000 for Children with Special Health Care Needs.                    
	8.  $15,000,000 for county indigent health care program.                       
	9.  $41,500,000 for the support of local government tertiary 
care facilities that provide indigent health services.
	10.  $6,500,000 to retain current number of mental health 
state hospitals.   
	11.  $11,500,000 to retain current number of mental 
retardation state schools.
	12.  $1,400,000 to maintain current child protective service 
case workers and staff.
	13.  $26,000,000 for additional child protective service 
workers.            
	14.  $7,200,000 to maintain foster care payment rates.                         
	15.  $60,800,000 for temporary health coverage for "medically 
needy" adults. 
	16.  $78,500,000 to fund increased acuity of long-term care.                   
	17.  $13,000,000 to restore personal needs allowance of 
nursing home individuals.
	18.  $5,400,000 for Texas Department of Health immunization 
programs.        
	19.  $31,000,000 for child abuse and at-risk prevention 
programs.            
	20.  $26,000,000 for optional Medicaid benefits.                               
	21.  $50,400,000 for Graduate Medical Education.                               
	22.  $10,100,000 for Texans with kidney failure who are not 
covered by Medicaid or Medicare.