Amend CSSB 8 (house committee printing) as follows:

(1)  In SECTION 5 of the bill, in the appropriation to the Department of Information Resources for cybersecurity projects, strike "$200,000,000" and substitute "$199,900,000" in each of the following places it appears:

(A)  page 3, line 9; and

(B)  page 3, line 26.

(2)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION: ADDITIONAL MEDICAID REIMBURSEMENTS FOR CERTAIN SPECIALTY PROVIDERS. The amount of $100,000 is appropriated to the Health and Human Services Commission for the two-year period beginning on the effective date of this Act from money received by this state from the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund (42 U.S.C. Section 802) established under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Pub. L. No. 117-2) and deposited to the credit of the Coronavirus Relief Fund No. 325 for the purpose of providing additional Medicaid reimbursements to non-primary care specialty providers who provide life-sustaining treatment, as defined by Section 166.002, Health & Safety Code, life-stabilizing treatment, or any other treatment, services, equipment, or supplies necessary to improve outcomes, prevent emergency room visits, maintain care in the home and community, and avoid admission to a health care facility or other institution, during the two-year period beginning on the effective date of this Act, in amounts that are proportional to the amount each provider's claims during that period bears to the total amount of claims for those services during that period.