Amend CSHB 1 (house committee printing) in Article V of the bill, following the appropriations to the Department of Public Safety (page V-47), by adding the following appropriately numbered rider:

____.  Interoperable Statewide Emergency Radio Infrastructure For Border Region. Out of general revenue appropriated above to the Department of Public Safety, the Department of Public Safety shall allocate an amount not to exceed $20,000,000 for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2020, and an amount not to exceed $20,000,000 for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2021, to evaluate the emergency radio infrastructure needs of the Texas-Mexico border region and address those needs by deploying interoperable statewide emergency radio infrastructure in that region.