{"id":242327,"date":"2016-12-12T06:06:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T20:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=242327"},"modified":"2016-12-12T06:06:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T20:06:09","slug":"house-resolution-seeks-increase-budget-appropriation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/house-resolution-seeks-increase-budget-appropriation\/","title":{"rendered":"House resolution seeks to increase budget appropriation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Antonio M. Sablan (R-Saipan) has authored House Resolution 19-6 that would increase the approved revenues of the government for fiscal year 2017. Public Law 19-68 appropriated $142,209,601 as the CNMI government\u2019s operational budget for fiscal year 2017, which took effect on Sept. 28 after Gov. Ralph DLG Torres signed HB 19-126, also introduced by Sablan.<\/p>\n<p>Torres last week issued a letter revising the identified additional funds available for appropriation. The total amount of $40,967,307.88 is ready for appropriation for fiscal year 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Legislature desires to approve the revised resources which are available for appropriation in [fiscal year] 2017,\u201d said Sablan on HR 19-6, which will be introduced with House Bill 19-212\u2014an act to make supplemental appropriations for CNMI government\u2019s operations\u2014in today\u2019s House session.<\/p>\n<p>The 19th Legislature, with the Senate concurring, has approved the additional amount of over $40 million that is available for appropriation.<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Rafael S. Demapan (R-Saipan) and Senate President Francisco M. Borja (R-Tinian) will then certify HR 19-6 once adopted with the House clerk and Senate legislative secretary attesting. The House clerk would then transmit the certified copy to Torres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Antonio M. Sablan (R-Saipan) has authored House Resolution 19-6 that would increase the approved&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,1860,194,3303],"class_list":["post-242327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cnmi","tag-hb","tag-house-bill","tag-hr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242327","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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}