"Sec. 5007   RCW 43.03.030 and 2009 c 5 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) Wherever the compensation of any appointive state officer or employee is fixed by statute, it may be hereafter increased or decreased in the manner provided by law for the fixing of compensation of other appointive state officers or employees; but this subsection shall not apply to the heads of state departments.
     (2) Wherever the compensation of any state officer appointed by the governor, or of any employee in any office or department under the control of any such officer, is fixed by statute, such compensation may hereafter, from time to time, be changed by the governor, and he or she shall have power to fix such compensation at any amount not to exceed the amount fixed by statute.
     (3) For the twelve months following February 18, 2009, a salary or wage increase shall not be granted to any position under this section."