evidence_text: Senator Theis offered the following amendment:
  
  1. Amend page 422, following line 17, by inserting:
  
  “Sec. 691. The department shall serve as the sole authority for approving access to any data created or produced by funds appropriated in part 1 for prenatal and infant support. The department must ensure that any research, evaluation, analysis of the data produced from the funds appropriated in part 1 for prenatal and infant support meets the following minimum criteria:
  
  (a) Data, funding, or resources are not subject to approval, oversight, or veto by any employee, officer, director, or contract worker for any contractor, grantee, recipient, subcontractor, subgrantee, or subrecipient, or any individual who has received compensation, grant funding, or research support.
  
  (b) Any contractor, grantee, recipient, subcontractor, subgrantee, or subrecipient may not control, approve or represent any research, evaluation, analysis, or any other type of assessment directly related to the program or research under review.
  
  (c) Written or verbal communication in the form of reports, research, or assessments that are represented as independent, third-party, or objective must be conducted by individuals who disclose all personal, financial or other direct or indirect relationship with any contractor, grantee, recipient, subcontractor, subgrantee, or subrecipient, or any individual who has received compensation, grant funding, or research support and who are not subject to the direction, control, or approval of any contractor, grantee, recipient, subcontractor, subgrantee, or subrecipient with respect to research design, data analysis, interpretation of results, or approval of findings.
  
  (d) Only qualified researchers unaffiliated who are not involved in program administration, oversight, or decision-making authority are permitted reasonable access to data produced in the operation of the prenatal and infant support program.
  
  (e) Anonymized data is available for research conducted by unaffiliated academic, governmental, or policy research entities.
  
  (f) Nothing in this section should be interpreted to prohibit internal program research, provided such research is clearly identified as internal and non-independent with full disclosure of all affiliations.”.
  
  The amendment was not adopted, a majority of the members serving not voting therefor.