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Amend CSHB 1 by adding the following appropriately numbered rider following the appropriation to the Department of State Health Services:
____.  Outpatient Competency Restoration Pilot Programs. Out of the funds appropriated above in Strategy B.2.3, Community Mental Health Crisis Services, the Department of State Health Services shall allocate $8 million for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2012, and $8 million for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2013, to support outpatient competency restoration pilot programs. It is the intent of the legislature that the department use the money to fund four existing pilot programs in Travis, Bexar, Tarrant, and Dallas Counties and to fund the development of five additional pilot programs.