evidence_text: Rep. Lightner moved to amend the bill as follows:
  
  Amend page 19, following line 12, by inserting:
  
  “Sec. 223. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall do all of the following:
  
  Report to the house and senate appropriations committees and the standard report recipients any amount of severance pay for a department director, deputy director, or other high-ranking department official not later than 14 days after a severance agreement with the director or official is signed. The name of the director or official and the amount of severance pay must be included in the report required by this subdivision.
  
  By February 1, report on the total amount of severance pay remitted to former department employees during the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024 and the total number of former department employees that were remitted severance pay during the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024.
  
  (2) As used in this section, “severance pay” means compensation that is both payable or paid upon the termination of employment and in addition to either wages or benefits earned during the course of employment or generally applicable retirement benefits.”.
  
  The motion did not prevail and the amendment was not adopted, a majority of the members serving not voting therefor.