Amend CSHB 1 in Article II, following the appropriations to the Department of Family and Protective Services, by inserting the following appropriately numbered contingent rider:

____.  Contingent rider: Money for data collection relating to requirements for the department to offer joint conservatorship to caregivers who relinquish custody of their child to the state in order to obtain intensive mental health services. (a) This rider is contingent on the enactment of HB 2039 or similar legislation by the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, that becomes law.

(b) It is the intent of the legislature that, out of the money appropriated above to the Department of Family and Protective Services in Strategy B.1.2. CPS PROGRAM SUPPORT, the department allocate for the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2015, for the purpose of implementing annual reporting requirements concerning joint conservatorship to the legislature.