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Amend CSSB 1 as follows:
Add the following rider to Article XI.
Contingency Appropriation for Pharmaceutical
Countermeasures. From funds appropriated in Article II of this Act
and contingent upon the following three outcomes, the Department of
State Health Services is hereby appropriated $20,000,000 in general
revenue in fiscal year 2010 to purchase and appropriately store
pharmaceutical countermeasures approved by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration to treat individuals who are or may become
contaminated with radioactive cesium:
(1) Federal Grant Effort. The department failing to
receive $20,000,000 in federal funds by August 1, 2010 to obtain
pharmaceutical countermeasures approved by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration to treat individuals contaminated with radioactive
cesium. If the Department obtains $20 million in qualified federal
funding then the Department is hereby appropriated those funds for
the purchase of the pharmaceuticals and shall purchase the
pharmaceuticals;
(2) Plan to Support First Responders. The department
developing, by August 1, 2010, a plan to support and protect first
responders in Texas and a plan for the distribution and storage of
pharmaceuticals; submitting that plan to the Office of Governor,
Division of Homeland Security; and
(3) Lapsed Salary Appropriation. On or before August
20, 2010 the Comptroller of Public Accounts shall certify to the
Legislative Budget Board whether year-end balances of general
revenue, in whole or in part, used to support salary costs at
Article II agencies are sufficient to cover the costs of the
appropriation made above.
If the three contingencies above are not met, this rider has
no effect.
It is the intent of the Legislature this rider does not
negatively impact general revenue match requirements for federally
funded health care programs. Any 2010 balances in Article II
agencies or the 911 Commission identified by the Comptroller of
Public Accounts pursuant to this rider are hereby appropriated for
purposes of this rider in fiscal year 2011.