Amend CSHB 1, by adding the following appropriately numbered 
rider in Article II of the bill following the special provisions 
relating to all health and human services agencies:
	____.  Funding Equity Among Local Mental Health and Mental 
Retardation Authorities. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature 
that the Department of State Health Services and the Department of 
Aging and Disability Services shall implement a long-term plan to 
achieve equity in state funding allocations among local mental 
health and mental retardation authorities. The plan shall be 
implemented from fiscal years 2007-2015. The goal of the plan shall 
be to achieve equity to the greatest extent possible by fiscal year 
2015; however, any funding reductions to a local authority for 
achieving equity may not exceed 5 percent of allocated general 
revenue in a fiscal year. The plan shall also provide for improving 
funding equity to be a priority in distributing any new state or 
federal funds that may become available for allocation to community 
centers.
	(b)  In assessing the equity of funding the departments may 
use alternatives other than basing equity calculations solely on 
the total population served by each local authority. Additional 
factors, such as incidence of poverty and the number of uninsured 
persons, may be considered if they help to provide a better estimate 
of the need for state funded mental health or mental retardation 
services in the areas served by each local authority. The 
departments shall submit the long-term equity plan to the Office of 
the Governor and the Legislative Budget Board by December 31, 2007. 
The departments shall include in legislative appropriations 
requests a table showing how implementation of the equity plan will 
affect projected allocations to community centers at the baseline 
current services funding level.