Amend CSHB 2197 (house committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Section 466.408(b), Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

(b)  If a claim is not made for prize money on or before the 180th day after the date on which the winner was selected, the prize money shall be used in the following order of priority:

(1)  subject to legislative appropriation, not more than $20 million in prize money each year may be deposited to [or appropriated from] the [Texas] Department of State Health Services state-owned multicategorical teaching hospital account, which is an account in the general revenue fund, or appropriated from that account to provide indigent health care services as specified in Chapter 61, Health and Safety Code;

(2)  not more than $5 million in prize money each year may be appropriated to the Health and Human Services Commission and shall be used to support the provision of inpatient hospital services in hospitals located in the 15 counties that comprise the Texas-Mexico border area, with payment for those services to be not less than the amount established under the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 (TEFRA) cost reimbursement methodology for the hospital providing the services;

(3)  the remaining amount, not to exceed $5 million in prize money in each state fiscal year less any amount deposited in the fund in that year attributable to the lottery game operated under Section 466.027, shall be deposited to the fund for veterans' assistance; and

(4)  all prize money subject to this section and not deposited or appropriated in accordance with [from the Texas Department of Health state-owned multicategorical teaching hospital account, not appropriated to the Health and Human Services Commission for the purpose specified in] Subdivision (1), (2), or [and not deposited under Subdivision] (3)[,] shall be deposited to the credit of the foundation school [in the general revenue] fund [and may be appropriated for any purpose as determined by the legislature, including the provision of indigent health care services as specified in Chapter 61, Health and Safety Code].

SECTION ____.  Section 466.408(b), Government Code, as amended by this Act, applies only to a prize for which the winner is selected on or after September 1, 2013. A prize for which the winner was selected before September 1, 2013, is governed by the law as it existed immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.