Amend CSSB 1, under Article II by adding the following 
appropriately numbered rider to the bill pattern of the Texas 
Health and Human Services Commission. 
	____.  Air Ambulance.  Within available revenue appropriated 
for Medicaid ambulance services the Texas Health and Human Services 
Commission shall give priority to setting reimbursement rates for 
fixed and rotary wing air ambulances as near as possible, yet not to 
exceed, 85% of the rural Medicare reimbursement rate for SFY 2010 
and 95% for SFY 2011.