Amend CSSB 1 (house committee printing) under the Article XI appropriations (page XI-8) by adding the following appropriately numbered provision:

____. Medicaid Expansion and Provider Reimbursement Rates. If the Health and Human Services Commission begins providing Medicaid program benefits to all persons eligible to enroll in the Medicaid program, who apply for the benefits, and for whom federal matching funds are available under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Pub. L. No. 111-148) as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Pub. L. No. 111-152):

(1)  the Legislative Budget Board shall calculate the estimated resulting savings in general revenue money appropriated by this Act and identify the agencies, goals, and strategies to which that money was appropriated; and

(2)  notwithstanding Rider 12 following the appropriations to the Health and Human Services Commission or any other limitation on transfers in this Act, the amounts of money calculated by the Legislative Budget Board under Subdivision (1) are transferred from the identified agencies, goals, and strategies to Goal B, Medicaid, as necessary and shall be used for the purpose of increasing reimbursement rates for health care providers participating in the Medicaid program.