This amendment reduces, by $1.5 million from the general fund each year, the $3.0 million from the general fund each year in the introduced budget for sworn position salary increases, bringing the total to $1.5 million from the general fund each year to address salary compression. Instead of providing a 1.4 percent pay raise to all eligible sworn employees, as proposed in the introduce budget, budget language directs the Virginia State Police to provide targeted salary increases to address salary compression among sworn positions.