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Amend CSHB 2292 by striking page 92, lines 15-27 and page 93
(lines 1-2) and substituting the following:
(b) If a claim is not made for prize money on or before the
180th day after the date on which the winner was selected, the prize
money shall be used as follows:
(1) not more than $10 million in prize money each
biennium shall be used by the Health and Human Services Commission
to support the provision of inpatient hospital services in
hospitals located in the 15 counties that comprise the Texas-Mexico
border area, with payment for those services to be not less than the
amount established under the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility
Act of 1982 (TEFRA) cost reimbursement methodology for the hospital
providing the services; and
(2) all prize money subject to this section in excess
of $10 million each biennium shall be deposited to the credit of the
Texas Department of Health state-owned multicategorical teaching
hospital account or the tertiary care facility account as follows:
(A)[(1)] not more than $15 [$40] million in prize
money each biennium may be deposited to or appropriated from the
Texas Department of Health state-owned multicategorical teaching
hospital account, which is an account in the general revenue fund;
and
(B)[(2)] all remaining prize money subject to
this section [in excess of $40 million] each biennium shall be
deposited in the tertiary care facility account. Money deposited
in the tertiary care facility account may only be appropriated to
the department for purposes specified in Chapter 46 or 61, Health
and Safety Code.