Amend CSSB 2 (house committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Appropriations for Children & Medically Needy. The amounts appropriated to the Health and Human Services Commission in HB 1, Acts of the 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, for Strategy B.1.4, Children & Medically Needy, as specified by that Act, reflect the intent of the legislature that the Health and Human Services Commission use additional cost savings identified and realized as a result of the use of funds appropriated to the Health and Human Services Commission in HB 1, Acts of the 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, for Strategy G.1.1, Office of Inspector General, as specified by that Act, to employ strategies:

(1)  within the Office of Inspector General (OIG) to improve systems for the detection, prevention, and prosecution of fraud, waste, and abuse; and

(2)  that may involve:

(A)  the use of advanced analytics, including predictive modeling, anomaly detection, and social network analysis, to identify and prevent the occurrence of improper reimbursements as well as to identify previous improper reimbursements; or

(B)  the use of data sources external to the commission, including public records, data managed by other state agencies, and commercially available data.