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Floor Packet Page No. 189
Amend CSSB 1 in Part 13, Article IX, of the bill by adding the
following appropriately numbered section:
Sec. 13.___. Contingency Rider: Personal Needs Allowance.
(a) This section is contingent on the enactment and becoming law of
HB 24, or similar legislation of the 79th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2005, that results in an increase in the personal needs
allowance for certain Medicaid recipients who are residents of
long-term care facilities to at least $75.
(b) Reduce the amount of general revenue appropriated to
each of the following offices, agencies, or departments in each
fiscal year of the biennium under this Act by an amount equal to
five percent of the total amount of general revenue appropriated
for the relevant fiscal year by this Act to the respective office,
agency, or department:
(1) the office of the governor;
(2) the senate;
(3) the house of representatives;
(4) the office of the attorney general;
(5) the General Land Office;
(6) the Department of Agriculture;
(7) the Railroad Commission; and
(8) the Supreme Court of Texas.
(c) In addition to other amounts appropriated by this Act to
the Health and Human Services Commission, increase the general
revenue appropriations to the Health and Human Services Commission
in each fiscal year of the biennium in an amount equal to the
reductions for that relevant fiscal year made by Subsection (b) of
this section to the general revenue appropriations to the offices,
departments, or agencies listed in that subsection. The Health and
Human Services Commission shall use the appropriated revenue for
the sole purpose of increasing the personal needs allowance
described by Subsection (a) of this section to $75.
(d) Adjust totals and methods of financing appropriately.