evidence_text: Rep. Berman moved to amend the bill as follows:
  
  1. Amend page 18, following line 11, by inserting:
  
  “Law enforcement signing bonuses 5,000,000”
  
  and adjusting the subtotals, totals, and section 201 accordingly.
  
  2. Amend page 49, following line 23, by inserting:
  
  “ Sec. 576. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for law enforcement signing bonuses, the department of state police must allocate $5,000,000.00 to be distributed through a grant program to local public safety departments in this state to provide signing bonuses to new law enforcement officers upon employment. A signing bonus for an officer provided utilizing funding appropriated in part 1 must not exceed $2,000.00. For the purposes of this section, no more than 25 signing bonuses may be offered by a particular local public safety department. ”.
  
  The motion prevailed and the amendments were adopted, a majority of the members serving voting therefor.