evidence_text: Rep. VanWoerkom moved to amend the bill as follows:
  
  1. Amend page 41, following line 5, by inserting:
  
  “Sec. 529. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the MEDC shall issue a report not later than December 31 outlining the MEDC’s current processes for ensuring that there is accountability and transparency in the use of state grant funds.
  
  The MEDC shall conduct an audit of expenses for any grant recipient that incurs expenditures of
  
  $200,000.00 or more in a fiscal quarter.
  
  If the Michigan strategic fund finds that any of the grant expenditures made by a grant recipient are inappropriate or unlawful during the course of an audit described under subsection (2), the fund shall refer the recipient to the department of attorney general for further investigation and the fund shall freeze any state grant funds available to the grant recipient until all investigations are completed.”.
  
  The motion did not prevail and the amendment was not adopted, a majority of the members serving not voting therefor.