{"id":340883,"date":"2021-03-25T06:05:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T20:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=340883"},"modified":"2021-03-25T06:05:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T20:05:30","slug":"demapan-expects-amendments-to-his-ceda-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/demapan-expects-amendments-to-his-ceda-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Demapan expects amendments to his CEDA bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_340884\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-340884\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Angel-Demapan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-340884\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Angel-Demapan-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-340884\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Demapan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Discussion for action did not push through during Tuesday\u2019s House of Representatives\u2019 session on Rep. Angel A. Demapan\u2019s (R-Saipan) bill that will create the Commonwealth Economic Development Authority. Instead, Demapan\u2019s House Bill 22-21 has now been calendared for discussion and action in today\u2019s session.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview Tuesday, Demapan said he believes there are some amendments to his bill that are going to be offered today. \u201cWe have yet to see those amendments so we look forward to coming back on Thursday in addressing the amendments and to see whether it\u2019s favorable or not to the intent of the bill,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Demapan said, he hopes that House members can support the legislation in support of economic development so they can be begin working on restoring the CNMI\u2019s economic footing once the Commonwealth emerges from this pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Edmund S. Villagomez (Ind-Saipan) decided to continue the session for today, Thursday, to give way to the Saipan and Northern Islands Legislative Delegation Committee on Judiciary and Governmental Operations\u2019 meeting that afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Last Feb. 26, the Governor\u2019s Council of Economic Advisers recommended the transformation of the Commonwealth Development Authority into Commonwealth Economic Development Authority. Demapan said prior to that presentation, he had already introduced House Bill 22-21.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Saipan Chamber of Commerce has described the bill as truly a revenue generating bill that will be providing the tools and authority to what would become CEDA and realize new diversified investments in the CNMI.<\/p>\n<p>Co-authored by six other lawmakers, H.B. 22-21 would strengthen the tools and powers of the CNMI government and expand economic development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussion for action did not push through during Tuesday\u2019s House of Representatives\u2019 session on Rep&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":340885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340883","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}