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	Amend CSSB 1, as follows:                                                    
	Contingency Authorization for Twelve Months Continuous 
Eligibility for Medicaid Children.
	a. The Health and Human Services Commission is hereby 
authorized to expend funds appropriated below to provide for a 
period of twelve months continuous eligibility for Medicaid 
children contingent upon the following two conditions:
		(1) Enactment of legislation by the Eighty-first 
Legislature providing the authority to expand this health care 
coverage to Medicaid children, and 
		(2) The federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) 
match rate associated with the American Recovery and Reinvestment 
Act for the period September 1, 2009 and December 31, 2010 increases 
to a Tier Two level or higher at any time during this 15 month 
period.
				(i) The Tier Two estimated federal match rate 
would be 69.85 percent.
				(ii) This additional federal match received 
would free up an amount of general revenue equal to the additional 
federal funds received.
				(iii) As an exception to the requirement of 
obtaining prior approval in Article II, Special Provisions, Section 
7, the Health and Human Services Commission is hereby authorized to 
expend any general revenue freed up in any Article II agency as a 
result of an increasing stimulus FMAP rate for the purpose of 
providing 12 months continuous eligibility in Goal B. Medicaid.
	b. The Health and Human Services Commission is required to 
notify the Legislative Budget Board and the Governor within 30 days 
of an FMAP increase and provide the following information:
		(1) The implementation date of providing the 12 months 
continuous eligibility period.
		(2) An estimate of the stimulus FMAP gain by agency and 
strategy by federal quarter.
		(3) An updated estimate of caseload and costs 
associated with providing 12 months continuous eligibility for each 
year of the 2010-11 biennium.
		(4) An updated estimate of the caseload and costs 
associated with providing 12 months continuous eligibility for each 
year of the 2012-13 biennium.
	c. The Heath and Human Services Commission is authorized to 
obtain any necessary federal approval to implement this coverage.
	d. The authorization for expenditure of funds for 12 months 
continuous eligibility provided by this section shall be in effect 
only for the time period the funding source described in paragraph 
a.(2) above remains in effect