Amend HB 2100 (senate committee printing) by striking all below the enacting clause and substituting the following:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 411, Government Code, is amended by adding Section 411.0162 to read as follows:
Sec. 411.0162. SALARIES FOR CERTAIN TROOPERS. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law and subject to the availability of money appropriated for that purpose, the department may pay its employees classified as Trooper Trainee, Probationary Trooper, and Trooper I at rates that exceed the maximum rates designated in Salary Schedule C of the position classification schedule prescribed by the General Appropriations Act for the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2013, for that position by up to 10 percent.
(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a) or any other provision of law and subject to the availability of money appropriated for that purpose, in the state fiscal year beginning September 1, 2013, the department may pay its employees classified as Trooper Trainee, Probationary Trooper, and Trooper I at rates that exceed the maximum rates designated in Salary Schedule C of the position classification schedule prescribed by the General Appropriations Act for the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2013, for that position by up to five percent. This subsection expires September 1, 2014.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.