to adopt the amendment to HB 5502.
Representative Fink moved to adopt the amendment to HB 5502. The motion did not prevail 12- 16-0: UNFAVORABLE ROLL CALL Yeas: Reps. Mentzer, Bollin, Green, Slagh, Beson, Borton, Fink, Cavitt, DeBoer, Kuhn, Schuette, Steele. Nays: Reps. Witwer, O'Neal, Brixie, Hood, Brabec, Morse, Puri, Steckloff, Weiss, Martus, McKinney, Morgan, Price, Skaggs, Snyder, Wilson. Pass: None. Representative Schuette offered the following amendment to HB 5502: 1. Amend page 22, following line 17, by inserting: "Sec. 309. (1) Funds appropriated in part 1 must be allocated to an entity that has operated in this state or in another state for 2 or more years and that has an office in this state or in the service area covered under the grant for at least 6 months prior to approval or disbursement of grant funding. (2) Prior to disbursement or awarding of grant funding, a grant recipient must submit a spending plan that describes how all grant funding will be used and that signifies if any grant funding will be allocated to a third party. (3) Each agency responsible for disbursement of grant funds must audit the use of funds by each grant recipient for each year grants are active. All completed audits must be placed on a conspicuous agency website for public review, without redaction unless required by law. (4) Funds appropriated in part 1 are prohibited from being used by an entity for startup or other costs associated with establishing the grant recipient as a legal entity within this state. (5) A grant recipient or immediate family member of a grant recipient must not be employed by the executive or legislative branches of government in this state. A grant recipient must not be an employee of any state agency and must not serve on any state board that has direct or indirect responsibility for approving or auditing grant funding disbursed by any agency.".