Amend CSSB 8 (house committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES AND HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION: FEDERAL FUNDS FOR HOSPITALS. It is the intent of the Legislature that the Department of State Health Services and the Health and Human Services Commission, in distributing any money received from the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund (42 U.S.C. Section 802) established under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Pub. L. No. 117-2) and deposited to the credit of the Coronavirus Relief Fund No. 325 distribute the money appropriated by this Act to entities that are subject to the hospital price transparency public disclosure requirements required by 45 C.F.R. Sections 180.10-180.60 and by Chapter 327, Health and Safety Code, only if the entities are in compliance with those requirements.