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

____.  Direct Access to Data for Reviewing Medicaid Eligibility. To the extent allowable under state and federal law and regulations, using funds allocated in Goal B.1.1, Medicaid and CHIP Contracts and Admin, the commission may directly obtain additional data including income, employment, address, phone, death records, and incarceration data from external data providers, including third-party vendors of commercial systems, so as to maximize and to help the commission's required eligibility determinations, identity validations, and other investigations for Medicaid as required by Federal law (P.L. 117-328) enacted on December 29, 2022.