Amend CSHB 1 (house committee report) as follows:

(1)  In Article II of the bill, in the appropriations to the Health and Human Services Commission, increase the general revenue appropriations for Strategy D.2.6, Community Mental Health Grant Programs (page II-35), by $3,000,000 for the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2025.

(2)  In Article II of the bill, following the appropriations to the Health and Human Services Commission (page II-38), add the following appropriately numbered rider:

____.  Behavioral Health Grant Funding. (a) Out of the amounts appropriated above to the Health and Human Services Commission for Strategy D.2.6, Community Mental Health Grant Programs, the commission shall allocate $3,000,000 for the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2025, for the purpose of providing grant funding to a nonprofit organization that:

(1)  provides behavioral health, substance use, and co-occurring disorder services through a comprehensive, integrated, and holistic approach; and

(2)  is headquartered and primarily provides those services in a municipality with a population of 70,000 or more but less than 85,000 that is located in two counties, one of which has a population of four million or more and the other of which has a population of less than 50,000.

(b)  It is the intent of the legislature that:

(1)  the Health and Human Services Commission provide grant funding to a nonprofit organization described by Subsection (a) of this rider only in accordance with a contract between the commission and the organization; and

(2)  a contract between the commission and a nonprofit organization described by Subsection (a) of this rider include provisions under which the commission is granted sufficient control to ensure the public purpose described under that subsection regarding the provision of behavioral health services is accomplished and the state receives the return benefit.

(3)  Proportionately reduce each appropriation of general revenue made by this Act, other than the appropriations made to the Health and Human Services Commission for Strategy D.2.6, Community Mental Health Grant Programs (page II-35), by a total of $3,000,000 for the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2025.