Amend Floor Amendment No. 1 by Williams to SJR 1 (Senate Committee Printing) as follows:
(1) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the resolution and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the resolution accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 49-g, Article III, Texas Constitution, is amended by adding Subsection (r) to read as follows:
(r) The amount of $50.4 million is appropriated from the economic stabilization fund to the Health and Human Services Commission for the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2013, for purposes of providing Medicaid program benefits to all persons who apply for the benefits and who are eligible, 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). The amount appropriated under this subsection is not included in determining the total amount of appropriations from state tax revenues for purposes of Section 22, Article VIII, of this constitution. This subsection expires August 31, 2015.
(2) In SECTION 4 of the resolution (page 3, following line 23), insert the following:
(c) The proposed amendment to the Texas Constitution providing for amending Section 49-g, Article III, shall be submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 5, 2013. The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the proposition: "The constitutional amendment appropriating $50.4 million from the economic stabilization fund for purposes of expanding eligibility for the Medicaid program to all persons for whom federal matching funds are available under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act."