Torres enacts two local bills
Gov. Ralph DLG Torres enacted two local bills last week that benefited both Saipan and Tinian.
House Local Bill 20-17 appropriates $12,000 to Tinian under Public Law 18-30, or the law that taxes poker machines, e-gaming machines, or electronic table games. It goes into the books as Tinian Local Law 20-04. The amount would be expended for personnel, operations, public programs, and contingency of the Tinian and Aguiguan Mayor’s Office as well as the monthly subsistence allowance of $100 each per medical patients of Tinian.
Torres also signed Senate Local Bill 20-2, which establishes Rota’s official anthem. Now known as Rota Local Law 20-06, “I Tano’-Mami” is considered the first senatorial district’s official anthem.
Oscar Atalig Mendiola wrote and composed the anthem, while Melchor Atalig recorded it. According to the RLL 20-06, the anthem is sung after the United States and Commonwealth anthems at official government ceremonies.
