Amend CSSB 1 (house committee printing), in Article I of the bill, by adding the following appropriately numbered rider following the appropriations to the Veterans Commission (page I-81):

____. Salary of the Executive Director of the Veterans Commission. Notwithstanding the line item appropriation for Executive Director, Group 4, or any other provision of this Act regarding the salary of the executive director of the Veterans Commission, the commission using the money appropriated to the commission for Salaries and Wages under this Act may in each state fiscal year of the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2015, pay the executive director an annual salary not to exceed $126,500.