Amend CSSB 1 (house committee printing) in Article II of the bill by adding the following appropriately numbered rider following the appropriations to the Department of State Health Services (page II-77):

____.  Data Collection on the Incidence of Health Care-Associated Infections. It is the intent of the legislature that the Department of State Health Services expend funds appropriated for the Texas Health Care-Associated Infection Reporting System to expand the reporting required under the system to accommodate information on infections resulting in the death of the patient.