Amend CSHB 1 (house committee printing) as follows:

(1)  In Article IX of the bill, in Section 17.18(a), Appropriations for a Salary Increase of General State Employees (page IX-112), strike Subdivision (1) and substitute the following:

(1)  a 5.0 percent increase in annual salary with a minimum of $5,000 per annum increase in salary, to begin on September 1, 2023, and another increase in annual salary to occur on September 1, 2024, consisting of an additional 5.0 percent increase with a minimum of $5,000 per annum increase in salary;

(2)  Each appropriation of general revenue made by this Act, other than the appropriations for general state employee salaries, is proportionally reduced for each fiscal year of the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2023, by an amount necessary to increase the salaries as provided by Item (1) of this amendment.