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Amend CSSB 1 (house committee report) as follows:
(1)  In Article VI of the bill, following the appropriations to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, add the following appropriately numbered rider and renumber subsequent riders accordingly:
____. Contingent Rider: Wellness Program. Contingent on HB 2020 or similar legislation of the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, authorizing state agencies to adopt wellness policies and programs being enacted and becoming law:
(1)  the general revenue fund appropriations to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for the purpose of Employee Benefits-Group Insurance are reduced by the amounts of $1,500,000 for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2014, and $1,500,000 for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2015; and
(2)  the amounts of $1,500,000 for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2014, and $1,500,000 for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2015, are appropriated out of the general revenue fund to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to fund a demonstration project with financial incentives for employees of the agency.
(2)  Adjust the article totals and methods of financing accordingly.