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          AN ACT
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        relating to the salary for certain employees of the Department of  | 
      
      
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        Public Safety of the State of Texas. | 
      
      
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               BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
      
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               SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 411, Government Code, is  | 
      
      
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        amended by adding Section 411.0162 to read as follows: | 
      
      
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               Sec. 411.0162.  SALARIES FOR CERTAIN TROOPERS.  (a)  | 
      
      
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        Notwithstanding any other provision of law and subject to the  | 
      
      
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        availability of money appropriated for that purpose, the department  | 
      
      
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        may pay its employees classified as Trooper Trainee, Probationary  | 
      
      
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        Trooper, and Trooper I at rates that exceed the maximum rates  | 
      
      
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        designated in Salary Schedule C of the position classification  | 
      
      
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        schedule prescribed by the General Appropriations Act for the state  | 
      
      
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        fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2013, for that position by up to  | 
      
      
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        10 percent. | 
      
      
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               (b)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a) or any other provision  | 
      
      
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        of law and subject to the availability of money appropriated for  | 
      
      
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        that purpose, in the state fiscal year beginning September 1, 2013,  | 
      
      
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        the department may pay its employees classified as Trooper Trainee,  | 
      
      
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        Probationary Trooper, and Trooper I at rates that exceed the  | 
      
      
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        maximum rates designated in Salary Schedule C of the position  | 
      
      
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        classification schedule prescribed by the General Appropriations  | 
      
      
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        Act for the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2013, for that  | 
      
      
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        position by up to five percent.  This subsection expires September  | 
      
      
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        1, 2014. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | 
      
      
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           President of the Senate | 
        Speaker of the House      | 
      
      
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               I certify that H.B. No. 2100 was passed by the House on May 9,  | 
      
      
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        2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 136, Nays 6, 2 present, not  | 
      
      
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        voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.  | 
      
      
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        No. 2100 on May 23, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 2,  | 
      
      
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        2 present, not voting. | 
      
      
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        Chief Clerk of the House    | 
      
      
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               I certify that H.B. No. 2100 was passed by the Senate, with  | 
      
      
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        amendments, on May 21, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays  | 
      
      
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        0. | 
      
      
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        Secretary of the Senate    | 
      
      
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        APPROVED: __________________ | 
      
      
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                      Governor        |