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	Amend CSSB 10 as follows:                                                    
	(1) On page 7, line 22, to page 8, line 1, of SECTION 2 of the 
committee substitute, strike Subsection (b) of SECTION 2 and 
substitute Subsection (b) as follows:
	(b) Subchapter A, Chapter 531, Government Code, is amended by 
adding Section 531.0057 to read as follows:
	(b) Sec. 531.0057. MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION SERVICES. (a) The 
Health and Human Services Commission shall provide medical 
transportation services for clients of eligible health and human 
services programs.
	(c) The commission may contract with any public or private 
transportation provider or with any regional transportation broker 
for the provision of public transportation services.
	(2) On page 8, line 2, to page 9, line 7, of SECTION 2 of the 
committee substitute strike Subsections (c) and (d) of SECTION 2.
	(3) On page 58, line 21, of the committee substitute, insert 
SECTION 19 as follows and renumber the subsequent sections 
appropriately:
	SECTION 19. (a) Subject to the appropriation of funds for 
these purposes and subsection (c) of this section, all powers, 
duties, functions, activities, obligations, rights, contracts, 
records, assets, personal property, personnel, appropriations or 
other money of the Texas Department of Transportation that are 
essential to the administration of the medical transportation 
program, as specified in Section 531.0057, Government Code, are 
transferred by this Act are transferred to the Health and Human 
Services Commission.
	(b) A reference in law or an administrative rule to the Texas 
Department of Transportation that relates to the medical 
transportation program means the Health and Human Services 
Commission.
	(c) The Texas Department of Transportation shall take all 
action necessary to provide for the transfer of its contractual 
obligations to administer the medical transportation program, as 
specified in Section 531.0057, Government Code, to the commission 
as soon as possible after the effective date of this section but not 
later than September 1, 2008.
	(d) The following sections remain in effect until September 
1, 2008, for the limited purpose of effecting the transfer of the 
medical transportation program, as specified in Section 531.0057, 
Government Code. The following sections are repealed, effective 
September 1, 2008:
		(1) Section 531.02412(b), Government Code;                                    
		(2) Section 461.012(a)(19), Health and Safety Code;                           
		(3) Section 461.012(g), Health and Safety Code;                               
		(4) Section 533.012(b), Health and Safety Code;                               
		(5) Section 22.001(e), Human Resources Code;                                  
		(6) Section 40.002(f), Human Resources Code;                                  
		(7) Section 91.021(g), Human Resources Code;                                  
		(8) Section 101.0256(b), Human Resources Code;                                
		(9) Section 111.0525(d), Human Resources Code;                                
		(10) Section 301.063(f), Labor Code;                                          
		(11) Section 455.0015, Transportation Code; and,                              
		(12) Section 461.003, Transportation Code.