{"id":303305,"date":"2019-07-11T06:06:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T20:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=303305"},"modified":"2019-07-11T06:06:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T20:06:52","slug":"senate-starts-picking-at-fy-20-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/senate-starts-picking-at-fy-20-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate starts picking at FY \u201920 budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate has started to review the House of Representative\u2019s allocation of funds for the fiscal year 2020 budget\u2014roughly less than two months before its constitutionally mandated deadline of Sept. 30, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>House Bill 21-64 has already been given a quick look by the Senate\u2019s Fiscal Affairs Committee chair Sen. Jude Hofschneider (R-Tinian).<\/p>\n<p>The bill was transmitted to the Senate last June 28, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Hofschneider said Tuesday afternoon that he has already asked the Legislature\u2019s fiscal analyst, David Demapan, to start reviewing the House version of the bill, which almost never passes the Senate without further amendments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s early but\u2026we are going to work really hard to come up with a product as early as possible,\u201d Hofschneider said, adding that he targets a Senate version of the budget bill by the end of July 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The budget, as proposed by Gov. Ralph DLG Torres for fiscal year 2020, is 9.7-percent lower than fiscal year 2019\u2019s budget of $258.14 million. This year, Torres proposed only $233.22 million for the upcoming fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>Minus $233.22 million in annual earmarks, that leaves the Legislature with a little over $147.1 million to work on\u2014still over $24.45 million compared to fiscal year 2019\u2019s $171.58 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate has started to review the House of Representative\u2019s allocation of funds for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20,508],"class_list":["post-303305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-budget","tag-fy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303305","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}