Amend CSSB 2037 (house committee report) as follows:
(1) On page 2, line 6, strike "under Section 5.701".
(2) On page 2, between lines 6 and 7, insert the following appropriately lettered subsections and reletter subsequent subsections and cross-references to those subsections accordingly:
(____) The commission may authorize the use of overtime, full-time equivalent commission employees to support the expedited processing of permit applications under Subsection (b), or contract labor to process those expedited applications. The overtime, full-time equivalent commission employees, or contract labor authorized under this subsection is not included in the calculation of the number of full-time equivalent commission employees allotted under other law.
(____) The commission may pay for compensatory time, overtime, full-time equivalent commission employees supporting the expedited processing of permit applications under Subsection (b), or contract labor used to implement that subsection. The commission is authorized to set the rate for overtime compensation for full-time equivalent commission employees supporting the expedited processing of permit applications under Subsection (b).