{"id":261320,"date":"2017-09-29T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T20:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=261320"},"modified":"2017-09-29T06:00:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T20:00:14","slug":"torres-signs-four-bills-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/torres-signs-four-bills-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Torres signs four bills into law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, Gov. Ralph DLG Torres signed:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 House Bill 20-16, SD1, \u201cTo amend 7 CMC \u00a7 3101(a) to mandate when a jury is impanel to hear all felonies and misdemeanor charges; and for other purposes.\u201d This bill becomes Public Law 20-12.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Senate Bill 20-09, SD1, \u201cTo amend 1 CMC Section 8117(i); and for other purposes, which was passed by the 20th Northern Marianas Commonwealth Legislature. This bill becomes Public Law 20-13.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Senate Bill 20-48, \u201cTo amend 3 CMC \u00a7 1506 to change the position of administrative librarian to public library director; and for other purposes.\u201d This bill becomes Public Law 20-14.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Senate Bill 20-54, \u201cTo mandate all government corporations, autonomous agencies and regulatory agencies to submit their annual budget to the Office of the Governor, which shall be included in the Governor\u2019s annual budget proposal; to establish a penalty provision for the failure of such government entities to timely submit their annual budget to the Office of the Governor; and for other purposes.\u201d This bill becomes\u00a0Public Law 20-15. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, Gov. Ralph DLG Torres signed: \u2022 House Bill 20-16, SD1, \u201cTo amend 7&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20,4722,1275,1411],"class_list":["post-261320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-budget","tag-cmc","tag-public-law","tag-senate-bill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261320","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}