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Amend CSSB 1, on page III-55 of the Higher Education
Coordinating Board's bill pattern, add the following new rider:
____. Health Care Access Fund. Contingent on passage and
enactment of HB 1876, or similar legislation establishing the
health care access fund, by the Eighty-First Legislature, Regular
Session, 75 percent of the total amount available in the health care
access fund under Section 403.1056, Government Code shall be
appropriated to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to
enable the repayment of health care provider education loans under
Subchapter FF, Chapter 61, Education Code. In addition, 25 percent
of the total amount available in the health care access fund under
Section 403.1056, Government Code shall be appropriated to the
Department of State Health Services to enable the Primary Care
Program to increase funding to FQHCs
a. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall have
the agency's limit on full-time equivalents increased by 1 in each
year of the 2010-11 biennium;
b. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board may expend
funds under this rider for salaries, wages, equipment, technology,
capital outlay and other necessary operating expenses, and
c. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall enter
into a memorandum of understanding with the Department of State
Health Services for the transfer of 25 percent of appropriations
from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to the
Department of State Health Services to implement the provisions of
Subchapter FF, Chapter 61, Education Code for which the Department
of State Health Services is responsible.
d. The Department of State Health Services shall have the
agency's limit on full-time equivalents increased by 1 in each year
of the 2010-11 biennium; and
Any unexpended balances as of August 31, 2010 are hereby
appropriated to fiscal year 2011 for the same purposes.