THE House Ways and Means Committee will come up with its own spending plan for the American Rescue Plan Act funds for fiscal year 2022.
The CNMI will receive $481,876,521 in Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds that the U.S. Congress appropriated in the ARPA.
On Friday and Tuesday, the House Ways and Means Committee conducted budget hearings for the Rota and Tinian municipal governments.
The committee chairman, Rep. Donald Manglona, said they plan to hold similar budget hearings for departments, agencies and other government activities starting this week.
Gov. Ralph DLG Torres submitted his FY 2021 budget proposal to the Legislature on April 1, 2021. A balanced budget must be enacted into law before Oct. 1, 2021 to prevent a partial government shutdown.