Amend HB 871 (senate committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Section 61.038(b), Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:

(b)  State funds provided under this section to a county must be equal to the amount [at least 90 percent] of the actual payment for the health care services for the county's eligible residents during the remainder of the state fiscal year after the eight percent expenditure level is reached.

SECTION ____.  Section 61.038(b), Health and Safety Code, as amended by this Act, applies beginning with the state fiscal year that begins September 1, 2011.