Amend CSSB 1 as follows: (1) In Article II of the bill, following the appropriation to the Texas Department of State Health Services (page II-27), add the following appropriately numbered rider: "____. Academic and Applied Public Health Collaborative. From funds appropriated above in Strategy A.1.1., Public Health Preparedness and Coordinated Services, the Texas Department of State Health Services shall use $1,156,000 in fiscal year 2010 and $1,190,680 in fiscal year 2011 to make equal interagency contract payments to the three Texas Schools of Public Health (The Texas A&M Health Science Center's School of Rural Public Health, School of Public Health at the Health Science Center at the University of North Texas, and the University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health) to support the recently developed collaborative initiative by the Texas Commissioner of Health to address the growing public health workforce shortage and the alarming population health crises facing the U.S. and Texas."