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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."