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The House of Representatives passed Friday a bill that essentially clips the emergency powers of the governor over public funds by ensuring that the expenditure authority designated in the Annual Appropriation Act will retain exclusive control over all funds appropriated to it.
The Senate’s and House of Representatives’ conference committees will hold a joint meeting today, Tuesday, to resolve their differences on a bill that would revise the budget law for the CNMI government’s operations for fiscal year 2023.
Reps. Vincent S. Aldan (Ind-Saipan) and Denita K. Yangetmai (D-Saipan) went off-island for official business trips, while Rep. Malcom Jason Omar (Ind-Saipan) is currently in Washington, D.C. to attend a policy academy pertaining to suicide prevention.
The House of Representatives unanimously adopted Friday a concurrent resolution, with Senate amendments, that agrees with the projected $116.19-million total local revenue and resources that the administration had identified as available for appropriation, to reflect proposed revisions to the fiscal year 2023 budget law, Public Law 22-22.