Amend CSHB 1 (house committee printing) in Article II of the bill, following the appropriation to the Department of State Health Services (page II-45), by adding the following appropriately numbered rider:

____.  Data Collection on the Incidence of Health Care-Associated Infections. It is the intent of the legislature that the Department of State Health Services use funds appropriated for the Texas Health Care-Associated Infection Reporting System to expand the reporting to accommodate information relating to infections resulting in the death of the patient.