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Amend CSHB 1 (house committee printing) in Article II of the bill immediately following the appropriations to the Health and Human Services Commission (page II-73) by adding the following appropriately numbered rider and renumbering subsequent riders accordingly:
____. Restriction on Use of Certain Payments under Medicaid and Child Health Plan Programs. It is the intent of the legislature that the Health and Human Services Commission ensure that a managed care organization that receives an increased Medicaid or child health plan program capitation payment from money appropriated under Goal B, Medicaid, or Goal C, Children's Health Insurance Program Services, for purposes of accounting for the health insurance providers fee imposed under Section 9010 of 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), and the associated effects of that fee on federal incomes taxes, uses the amount of the increase only to provide child health care and mental health care services to enrollees in the organization's managed care plan under the respective programs.