Amend HB 161 (house committee printing) on page 2, between lines 5 and 6, by inserting the following:

(c)  Notwithstanding Subsections (a) and (b) of this section, it is the intent of the legislature that $4,000,000 of the reimbursement described by Subsection (b) of this section be appropriated to the Department of State Health Services for the purpose of providing funding during the two-year period beginning on the effective date of this Act for a grant to facilitate the use of whole genome sequencing to diagnose critically ill newborn children.