Amend CSHB 1 (house committee report) in Article II of the bill, following the appropriations to the Department of State Health Services (page II-22), by adding the following appropriately numbered rider:

____.  Strategic National Stockpile for Health Emergency Preparedness and Response. Out of amounts appropriated above to the Department of State Health Services and to the extent federal funding is available for that purpose, the department, in coordination with the Task Force on Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response created under Subchapter J, Chapter 81, Health and Safety Code, may prepare and submit to the United States Department of Health and Human Services an application for a grant award under Section 319F-2, Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. Section 247d-6b), to establish, expand, or maintain a stockpile of appropriate medicines, medical devices, protective equipment, and other supplies determined necessary by this state to respond to a disaster declared by the governor or public health disaster or emergency declared by the commissioner of state health services under state law or a major disaster or emergency declared by the president of the United States under federal law.