to adopt the amendment to HB 4310.
Representative Green moved to adopt the amendment to HB 4310. The motion did not prevail 12-2-15: UNFAVORABLE ROLL CALL Yeas: Reps. Lightner, Bollin, Green, Slagh, Beson, Borton, Fink, Cavitt, DeBoer, Kuhn, Schuette, Steele. Nays: Reps. Morse, Puri. Pass: Reps. Witwer, O'Neal, Brixie, Hood, Brabec, Steckloff, Weiss, Martus, McKinney, Mentzer, Morgan, Price, Skaggs, Snyder, Wilson. Representative Green offered the following amendments to HB 4310: 1. Amend page 24, following line 2, by inserting: Health care recruitment, retention, and training 19,000,000 and adjusting the subtotals, totals, and section 201 accordingly. 2. Amend page 215, following line 1, by inserting: "Sec. 1971. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for health care recruitment, retention, and training, the department shall allocate $19,000,000.00 for health care recruitment, retention, and training programming to health care employers that can demonstrate an eligible qualifying need. Health care employers must not request funds under this section for any investments related to recruitment or retention announced before December 1, 2021. (2) The department must allocate the funds appropriated pursuant to this section to the Michigan Health and Hospital Association for administration to acute care and behavioral health care providers, of which not less than 10% appropriated pursuant to this subsection must be allocated to critical access hospitals and small and rural providers that are awarded rural access payments under section 1802(2) of article 6 of 2021 PA 87. (3) Health care recruitment, retention, and training programming may include, but is not limited to, cash recruitment bonuses, student loan payment assistance, cash retention bonuses, tuition assistance, and other forms of training programming. The maximum amount any health care employer, except for critical access hospitals and small and rural providers that are awarded rural access payments under section 1802(2) of article 6 of 2021 PA 87, can use for cash recruitment bonuses is 25%, and the maximum amount any health care employer, except for critical access hospitals and small and rural providers that are awarded rural access payments under section 1802(2) of article 6 of 2021 PA 87, can use for cash retention bonuses is 20%. (4) By September 30, 2024, the department must provide a report to the report recipients required in section 246 of this part on the overall efficacy of the funds appropriated in this section, including, but not limited to, the statewide outcomes of recruitment efforts, retention efforts, and training efforts to reduce statewide health care staffing vacancies. The Michigan Health and Hospital Association and other recipients shall provide data and metrics, in a manner approved by the department, to fulfill the reporting requirements of this section."