to adopt substitute (H-2) to HB 5503.
Representative Price moved to adopt substitute (H-2) to HB 5503. The motion prevailed 27-0-1: FAVORABLE ROLL CALL Yeas: Reps. Witwer, O'Neal, Brixie, Hood, Brabec, Morse, Puri, Steckloff, Weiss, Martus, McKinney, Mentzer, Morgan, Price, Skaggs, Snyder, Wilson, Bollin, Green, Slagh, Beson, Borton, Fink, Cavitt, DeBoer, Kuhn, Schuette. Nays: None. Pass: Rep. Steele. Representative Bollin offered the following amendment to HB 5503: 1. Amend page 350, following line 10 by inserting: "Sec. 164k. Funds appropriated under this article from state and federal sources must not be used to provide services, grants, or programming to individuals who are not citizens of the United States unless the individual is a qualified alien as that term is defined in 8 USC 1641. Sec. 164l. Funds appropriated under this article that are utilized for grants or grant programs are subject to the following conditions: (a) Grant funds must be provided to an entity that has been established and is operating in this state or another state for at least 2 years prior to approval of the grant. (b) Grant funds must be provided to an entity that has had an office in this state or in the service area covered under any grant for at least 6 months prior to approval of the grant. (c) Prior to the awarding of a grant, all grant recipients must provide a spending plan specifying how all grant funds will be used and if grant funds will be provided to a third party or subrecipient. (d) Each department or agency responsible for the awarding of grant funds must audit the entity's use of the grant funds for each fiscal year in which the grant is active. (e) Grant recipients and grant recipients' immediate family members are prohibited from being employed by the executive branch or legislative branch of this state. (f) Grant recipients are prohibited from serving on any state board that has direct or indirect responsibility for the approval or auditing of grant funds disbursed by state departments and agencies. (g) Full and complete audits of grant funds issued by a department or agency of this state, without redaction unless required by law, must be posted to a department or agency website in a conspicuous place for public review. Sec. 168b. To receive funds under this article, a district or intermediate district must post on the district's or intermediate district's website any amount of severance pay for a superintendent, and the name of the superintendent, not later than 14 days after a severance agreement with the superintendent is signed. By not later than February 1 of each year, districts and intermediate districts shall post the total amount of severance pay remitted to former superintendents during the previous fiscal year and the total number of former superintendents that were remitted severance pay during the previous fiscal year. As used in this section, "severance pay" means compensation that is both payable or paid upon the termination of employment and in addition to either wages or benefits earned during the course of employment or generally applicable retirement benefits. Sec. 170. By not later than August 1 of each year, the department shall submit a report to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on school aid, the house and senate fiscal agencies, the house and senate policy offices, and the state budget office that provides a listing of all current work project accounts under this article. The report must include all of the following for each current work project account: (a) The original work project amount. (b) A detailed accounting of expenditures to date. (c) The balance of the work project account. (d) The intended use of the remaining funds in the work project account. (e) The expected completion date of the work project."