Amend HB 2292 (House engrossed version) on third reading by
striking page 117, line 10, through page 118, line 8, 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 in the following order of priority:
(1) $10 million in prize money each year shall be
deposited to the credit of the Texas Department of Health
state-owned multicategorical teaching hospital account, which is
an account in the general revenue fund;
(2) $5 million in prize money each year 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;
(3) $8 million in prize money each year shall be
deposited in the tertiary care facility account, and may be
appropriated only for purposes specified in Chapter 46 or 61,
Health and Safety Code;
(4) an additional $10 million in prize money each year
shall be deposited to the credit of the Texas Department of Health
state-owned multicategorical teaching hospital account; and
(5) in addition to the amount specified by Subdivision
(3), all remaining prize money subject to this section shall be
deposited in the tertiary care facility account, and may be
appropriated only for purposes specified in Chapter 46 or 61,
Health and Safety Code [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:
(1) not more than $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
(2) all 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].