evidence_text: Rep. Koleszar moved to amend the bill as follows:
  
  1. Amend page 12, following line 10, by inserting:
  
  “Sec. 18. (1) If the attorney general has reason to believe that a person has information or is in possession, custody, or control of any document or other tangible object relevant to an investigation for violation of this act, the attorney general may serve upon the person, before bringing any action in court, a written demand to appear and be examined under oath, and to produce the document or object for inspection and copying. The demand must satisfy all of the following:
  
  (a) Be served upon the person in the manner required for service of process in this state.
  
  (b) Describe the nature of the conduct constituting the violation under investigation.
  
  (c) Describe the document or object with sufficient definiteness to permit it to be fairly identified.
  
  (d) If demanded, contain a copy of the written interrogatories.
  
  (e) Prescribe a reasonable time at which the person must appear to testify, within which to answer the written interrogatories, and within which the document or object must be produced, and advise the person that objections to or reasons for not complying with the demand may be filed with the attorney general on or before that time.
  
  (f) Specify a place for the taking of testimony or for production and designate the person who shall be custodian of the document or object.
  
  (g) Contain a notice of the right to petition the court to extend the return date for a reasonable time or modify or set aside the demand as provided in subsection (2).
  
  (2) Before the return date specified in the demand for information under subsection (1), or within 10 days following notice of the demand, whichever is shorter, any person from whom information has been requested may petition a court of competent jurisdiction in this state, stating good cause, for a protective order to extend the return date for a reasonable time, or to modify or set aside the demand. The attorney general shall receive at least 10 days’ notice of the petition and shall be given an opportunity to respond.
  
  (3) If a protective order from a court is not secured and the demand is not complied with by its return date, the attorney general, upon notice to the person requested to provide information, may apply to a court of competent jurisdiction in this state for an order compelling compliance with the demand for information under subsection (1).
  
  (4) Any court of competent jurisdiction in this state, upon a showing by the attorney general that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the provisions of this act are being, have been, or are about to be violated; that the persons who are committing, have committed, or are about to commit such acts or practices or who possess the relevant documentary material have left the state or are about to leave the state; and that such an order is necessary for the enforcement of this act, may order such persons to comply with the provisions of subsection (1) whether the attorney general has made a prior demand for information or not. The court may also, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, immediately and without notice, forbid the removal from any place, concealment, withholding, destruction, mutilation, falsification, or alteration by any other means of any documentary material in the possession, custody, or control of any person believed to be connected with acts or practices that violate this act.
  
  (5) Any person who has received notice of a demand for information under subsection (1), or of an order under subsection (3) or (4), and with intent to avoid, evade, or prevent compliance, in whole or in part, with any civil investigation or order under this act, removes from any place, conceals, withholds, destroys, mutilates, falsifies, or by any other means alters any documentary material in the possession, custody, or control of any person subject to such notice, shall be subject to a civil fine of not more than $10,000.00 per violation, recoverable by the state in addition to any other appropriate sanction.
  
  (6) Any procedure, testimony taken, or material produced shall be kept confidential by the attorney general before bringing an action against a person under this act for the violation under investigation, unless confidentiality is waived by the person being investigated and the person who has testified, answered interrogatories, or produced material.”.
  
  The motion did not prevail and the amendment was not adopted, a majority of the members serving not voting therefor.