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Amend CSHB 109 by adding the following appropriately numbered
SECTION and renumbering the subsequent SECTIONS of the bill
accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 62.005, Health and Safety Code, is
added to read as follows: EXPENDITURE OF AVAILABLE MONEY. For each
state fiscal biennium the commission shall develop a plan to use all
federal money available for the state child health insurance
program for that biennium, including money remaining from previous
years' allocations of federal money for the plan, to provide health
coverage for:
(1) up to 662,000 children; or
(2) the maximum number of children that may be provided
services under the plan.