evidence_text: Rep. Brixie moved to amend the bill as follows:
  
  1. Amend page 11, following line 5, by inserting:
  
  “Sec. 304. (1) An appropriations ethics committee is created and shall consist of twelve members. The purpose of the committee is to review, evaluate, and make recommendations involving grant awards in sections 301 and 302, ensuring a fair, objective, ethical, and impartial process is adhered to when making grant awards. Three members of the committee shall be members of the House Republican Caucus. Three members of the committee shall be members of the House Democratic Caucus. Three members of the committee shall be members of the Senate Republican Caucus. Three members of the committee shall be members of the Senate Democratic Caucus. The Speaker of the House, House Minority Leader, Senate Majority Leader, and Senate Minority Leader shall each designate a co-chair of the committee.
  
  (2) The committee may subpoena witnesses, administer oaths, and examine the books, records, and any other pertinent material or any person, partnership, association, or corporation, public or private, involved in a matter properly before the committee; may call upon the services and personnel of any agency of the state and its political subdivisions; and may engage such assistance as it deems necessary to effectively and efficiently authorize and award grants under sections 301 and 302.
  
  (3) The committee shall have the power to investigate impropriety, unjust or illicit self-enrichment, or gross misconduct, and to work in conjunction with law enforcement on suspected criminal activity by current and former members of the House of Representatives and Senate for the purposes of transparency, to inform the public, and to consider disciplinary action.
  
  (4) The committee shall do all of the following:
  
  (a) Act only on complaints made publicly, tendered with an offer of proof and subject to criminal penalties for knowingly false statements in tendered complaints.
  
  (b) Open investigations only by vote of a majority of each caucus’ members serving on the committee.
  
  (c) Conduct all deliberations in public, and make all documents tendered to the select committee freely available to the public and comply with the Open Meetings Act.
  
  (5) The committee shall reports its findings and recommendations on grant awards to the House of Representatives and Senate.”.
  
  The motion did not prevail and the amendment was not adopted, a majority of the members serving not voting therefor.