{"id":234867,"date":"2016-08-24T06:06:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T20:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=234867"},"modified":"2016-08-24T06:06:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T20:06:46","slug":"maratita-wants-pachinko-funds-rota-dialysis-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/maratita-wants-pachinko-funds-rota-dialysis-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Maratita wants pachinko funds for Rota dialysis patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Glenn L. Maratita (R-Rota) has authored a couple of local appropriation bills to tap e-gaming and poker and pachinko funds for Rota dialysis patients and island tourism activities.<\/p>\n<p>Maratita is set to introduce House Local Bill 19-72, which taps funds specifically allotted to the First Senatorial District, or Rota, under Public Law 18-30, for \u201cGaming and tourism enhancement activities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill appropriates $25,935 of these funds allotted to Rota.<\/p>\n<p>Maratita has also authored House Local Bill 19-71, which proposes to appropriate $20,000 from local license fees collected for poker and pachinko slot machines on Rota, to provide monthly allowances to Rota dialysis patients, among others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026There is a need to provide a subsistence allowance for residents of the First Senatorial District who are undergoing dialysis and treatment for terminal illnesses; the Rota Scholarship Fund, and other programs,\u201d the bill states. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Glenn L. Maratita (R-Rota) has authored a couple of local appropriation bills to tap&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3941,1805,1275,13090],"class_list":["post-234867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-first-senatorial-district","tag-house-local-bill","tag-public-law","tag-rota-scholarship-fund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}