Amend CSSB 8 (house committee printing) as follows:

(1)  On page 3, strike "$200,000,000" and substitute "$194,958,500" in each of the following places it appears:

(A)  line 9; and

(B)  line 26.

(2)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  TEXAS STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY: PRESCRIPTION MONITORING PROGRAM. The amount of $2,520,750 is appropriated to the Texas State Board of Pharmacy for each state fiscal year of the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2021, notwithstanding Section 12(a) of this Act, from money received by this state 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 for the purpose of allowing continued funding of the prescription monitoring program for Texas prescribers and pharmacies, including subscription costs for the PMP Gateway, NarxCare, and Clinical Alerts, to address the increase in deaths related to opioid use in this state due to the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).