Amend CSHB 1 (house committee printing) in Article II of the bill, following the bill pattern appropriations to the Health and Human Services Commission (page II-94), by adding the following rider:

____.  Suicide Prevention. (a) Notwithstanding other provisions of this Act, the general revenue appropriations made to each of the following agencies or entities are reduced by the amount of $125,000 for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2020, and by the amount of $125,000 for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2021:

(1)  the Department of Family and Protective Services;

(2)  the Department of State Health Services;

(3)  the Department of Criminal Justice;

(4)  the Texas Education Agency;

(5)  the Juvenile Justice Department;

(6)  the Veterans Commission; and

(7)  Trusteed Programs within the Office of the Governor.

(b)  Each agency or entity whose general revenue appropriations are reduced by Subsection (a) of this rider may reallocate the general revenue appropriated to it for any strategy as necessary to accommodate the reductions.

(c)  Notwithstanding other provisions of this Article, the appropriations made to the Health and Human Services Commission for Strategy D.2.3, Community Mental Health Crisis Services, are increased by the amount of $875,000 for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2020, and by the amount of $875,000 for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2021.

(d)  Out of money appropriated to the Health and Human Services Commission for Strategy D.2.3, Community Mental Health Crisis Services, the commission shall allocate not less than $1,000,000 in each year of the fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2021, to:

(1)  provide grants to nonprofit organizations to coordinate a network of state and community-based suicide prevention groups; and

(2)  assist the Health and Human Services Commission with the development, implementation, and monitoring of a statewide and community-based suicide prevention plan.