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

SECTION ____.  In addition to amounts previously appropriated to the Department of State Health Services by SB 1, Acts of the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013 (the General Appropriations Act), $6,800,000 is appropriated out of the general revenue fund to the department for the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2015, for the purpose of paying costs associated with entering into a contract with premier medical providers to study ways to prevent maternal and fetal deaths that result from complications during pregnancy, to prepare a report based on the study for the 84th Legislature, and to provide a copy of the report to the governor, lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house of representatives.