{"id":24465,"date":"2012-07-20T02:09:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T02:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=24465"},"modified":"2012-07-20T02:09:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T02:09:59","slug":"senate-fiscal-panel-sees-budget-bill-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/senate-fiscal-panel-sees-budget-bill-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate fiscal panel sees budget bill changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Senate Fiscal Affairs Committee chair Jovita Taimanao (Ind-Rota) said yesterday her panel will hold a working session Tuesday on the $114 million budget bill that the House passed on Wednesday. Taimanao said there are areas of the bill that would be amended, including funding for health services.<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe Senate will work expeditiously on this budget bill and ensure it will be back in the House with amendments,\u201d Taimanao said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>The panel&#8217;s working session on the fiscal year 2013 budget bill will be on Tuesday at 10am, and Taimanao said the full Senate could take up the legislation days later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe committee will also look at the governments&#8217; obligations or debts to vendors as we go over the budget,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The House spent considerable time discussing lawmakers&#8217; proposed increase in operational funding for fiscal year 2013 that ended up as having the same amount as that of in fiscal year 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Taimanao said she personally supports maintaining a $72,000 operational funding for lawmakers for 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it will be a committee decision. We can&#8217;t discuss the specific amendments that will be done until we hold the working session next week,\u201d she said. Taimanao was waiting to receive a copy of the budget bill that underwent 10 amendments in the House on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Taimanao said the Senate panel also supports lifting the 16-hour cuts to bring back the work hours to 80 biweekly, along with paid holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Senate President Paul Manglona (Ind-Rota) also said the budget bill would have Senate amendments.<\/p>\n<p>Manglona echoed acting House speaker Felicidad Ogumoro (Cov-Saipan), saying the Senate will work with the House should there be a deadlock on the budget bill between the House and Senate.<\/p>\n<p>If a budget is not enacted by Oct. 1, the government will be forced to shut down until a budget is signed into law to comply with a constitutional mandate.<\/p>\n<p>By Haidee V. Eugenio<br \/>\nReporter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Fiscal Affairs Committee chair Jovita Taimanao (Ind-Rota) said yesterday her panel will hold a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20,55,65],"class_list":["post-24465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-budget","tag-health-2","tag-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24465","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}