evidence_text: Rep. Myers-Phillips moved to amend the Senate substitute (S-3) as follows:
  
  1. Amend page 17, line 27, after “may” by striking out the balance of the subsection and inserting “do any of the following:
  
  (a) Bring a civil action for appropriate relief, including, but not limited to, payment for used earned sick time; rehiring or reinstatement to the employee’s previous job; payment of back wages; reestablishment of employee benefits to which the employee otherwise would have been eligible if the employee had not been subjected to retaliatory personnel action or discrimination; the violation; and an equal additional amount as liquidated damages together with costs and reasonable attorney fees as the court allows.
  
  (b) File a claim with the department, which shall investigate the claim. Filing a claim with the department is neither a prerequisite nor a bar to bringing a civil action.”.
  
  The motion did not prevail and the amendment was not adopted, a majority of the members serving not voting therefor.