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Amend CSHB 1 in Article XI of the bill by adding the following appropriately numbered rider after the appropriations to the Department of State Health Services (page XI-2):
____. Appropriation for Diabetes and Obesity Care and Education. In Article II of the bill, in addition to other amounts appropriated to the Department of State Health Services in Strategy A.3.1, Chronic Disease Prevention (page II-46), the amount of $3 million is appropriated for the state fiscal year beginning September 1, 2011, and the amount of $3 million is appropriated for the state fiscal year beginning September 1, 2012, from the general revenue fund to the Department of State Health Services for the purpose of reducing the health and economic burdens of diabetes through The University of Texas community outreach model of community-based diabetes and obesity care and education.