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Amend CSSB 1 (house committee printing) in Article I of the bill, by adding the following appropriately numbered rider after the appropriations to the Library & Archives Commission (I-77):
____.  TexShare and TexQuest. (a) In addition to other amounts appropriated by this Act and notwithstanding Sections 13.01 and 13.02 of Part 13, Article IX, of this Act, a total amount of $5,000,000 of any money made available under the following laws and subject to appropriation from the state treasury is reappropriated to the Library & Archives Commission to the extent consistent with conditions placed on the expenditure of that money by the federal government:
(1)  Section 313, Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021 (Div. M, Pub. L. No. 116-260, 134 Stat. 1182 (2020), reprinted in note, 20 U.S.C. Section 3401); or
(2)  Section 2001, American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Pub. L. No. 117-2, 135 Stat. 4 (2021), reprinted in note, 20 U.S.C. Section 3401).
(b)  Out of money reappropriated by Subsection (a) of this rider, the Library & Archives Commission shall allocate $2,500,000 for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2022, and $2,500,000 for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2023, to Strategy A.1.1, Library Support Services, for purposes of the TexShare and TexQuest online library resource program.