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	Amend HB 1299 (house committee printing) as follows:                         
	(1)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the 
bill and renumbering the remaining SECTIONS of the bill 
accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Section 466.408(b), Government Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	(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)  subject to legislative appropriation, not more 
than $20 million in prize money each year 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;
		(2)  not more than $5 million in prize money each year 
may be appropriated to the Health and Human Services Commission and 
shall be used 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]
		(3)  the remaining amount, not to exceed $5 million in 
prize money in each state fiscal year less any amount deposited in 
the fund in that year attributable to the lottery game operated 
under Section 466.027, shall be deposited to the fund for veterans' 
assistance; and
		(4)  all prize money subject to this section and not 
appropriated from the Texas Department of Health state-owned 
multicategorical teaching hospital account, [or] not appropriated 
to the Health and Human Services Commission for the purpose 
specified in Subdivision (2), and not deposited under Subdivision 
(3), shall be deposited in the general revenue fund and may be 
appropriated for any purpose as determined by the legislature, 
including the provision of indigent health care services as 
specified in Chapter 61, Health and Safety Code.
	(2)  On page 5, line 9, between "466.027" and the period, 
insert "or transferred to the fund under Section 466.408(b)".