to adopt the amendment to HB 5502.
Representative Snyder moved to adopt the amendment to HB 5502. The motion prevailed 17-1- 10: FAVORABLE ROLL CALL Yeas: Reps. Witwer, O'Neal, Brixie, Hood, Brabec, Morse, Puri, Steckloff, Weiss, Martus, McKinney, Mentzer, Morgan, Price, Skaggs, Snyder, Wilson. Nays: Rep. Steele. Pass: Reps. Bollin, Green, Slagh, Beson, Borton, Fink, Cavitt, DeBoer, Kuhn, Schuette. Representative Bollin offered the following amendment to HB 5502: 1. Amend page 22, following line 17, by inserting: "Sec. 309. The department receiving appropriations in part 1 shall maintain, on a publicly accessible website, information that identifies, tracks, and regularly updates key metrics that are used to monitor and improve the department’s or agency’s performance. Sec. 310. If the state administrative board, acting under section 3 of 1921 PA 2, MCL 17.3, transfers funds from an amount appropriated under this part or part 1, the legislature may, by a concurrent resolution adopted by a majority of the members elected to and serving in each house, intertransfer funds within this part or part 1 for the particular department, board, commission, officer, or institution. Sec. 311. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall do all of the following: (a) Report to the standard report recipients and the senate and house appropriations committees any amount of severance pay for a department director, deputy director, or other high-ranking department official not later than 14 days after a severance agreement with the director or official is signed. The name of the director or official and the amount of severance pay must be included in the report required by this subdivision. (b) By February 1, report on the total amount of severance pay remitted to former department employees during the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024 and the total number of former department employees that were remitted severance pay during the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024. (2) 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.".