Amend CSSB 1 (house committee printing) in Article II of the bill, following the appropriations to the Department of Family and Protective Services (page II-3), by adding the following appropriately numbered rider:

____.  Family Preservation Services Pilot Program. The commissioner of the Department of Family and Protective Services shall allocate from general revenue funds otherwise appropriated by this Act to the Department of Family and Protective Services the amount necessary to continue providing services to families under the department's Texas Family First pilot program including:

(1)  serving children who are candidates for foster care; and

(2)  enabling family reunification for children who are in the joint managing conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services.