This amendment provides funding and authorization to provide a 5.0 percent salary increase for state employees, adjunct faculty, and state supported local employees. The amendment provides an additional 3.0 percent salary adjustment and a compression adjustment of $100 per year of service for sworn officers of the State Police, and provides additional flexibility to higher education institutions in the provision of the salary increase to non-classified employees. The amendment redirects $97.8 million from the general fund included in the introduced budget for employee bonuses and adds $146.1 million from the general fund to fund the estimated total cost of the salary increases at $243.9 million.