Amend CSHB 1 (house committee report) in Article VII of the bill, following the appropriations to the Department of Housing and Community Affairs (page VII-8), by adding the following appropriately numbered rider:

____.  Financial Assistance for Certain Community Programs for Youth. (a) Out of the amounts appropriated above to the Department of Housing and Community Affairs, the amount of $5 million is designated for use by the department for the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2023, to provide financial assistance for programs administered by a nonprofit organization that:

(1)  provides culturally competent, family-centered educational, health, human services, and economic development opportunities to African Americans and other at-risk youth and families; and

(2)  primarily provides the opportunities described by Subdivision (1) in a county with a population of 1 million or more but less than 1.5 million.

(b)  The Department of Housing and Community Affairs may provide financial assistance to a nonprofit organization described by Subsection (a) of this rider only in accordance with a contract between the department and the organization. The contract must include provisions under which the department is granted sufficient control to ensure the public purpose of providing community services described by that subsection is accomplished and the state receives the return benefit.