{"id":357849,"date":"2021-12-17T06:03:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T20:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=357849"},"modified":"2021-12-17T06:03:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T20:03:33","slug":"hofschneider-signs-into-law-1m-rota-appropriation-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/hofschneider-signs-into-law-1m-rota-appropriation-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Hofschneider signs into law $1M Rota appropriation bill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senate president Jude U. Hofschneider (R-Tinian), in his role as acting governor, signs House Local Bill 22-23, S1, into Rota Local Law 22-04 in his office at the Senate yesterday morning. The bill proposes to appropriate to Rota for referral patients, among other programs, Rota\u2019s $1 million share of Imperial Pacific International (CNMI) LLC\u2019s $15 million license fee that was paid to the CNMI government two years ago. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Senate president Jude U. Hofschneider (R-Tinian) in his capacity as acting governor signed into law yesterday a local bill that the Rota Legislative Delegation passed last week that appropriate to Rota for referral patients, among other programs, Rota\u2019s $1 million share of Imperial Pacific International (CNMI) LLC\u2019s $15 million license fee that was paid to the CNMI government two years ago.<\/p>\n

Hofschneider signed in his office House Local Bill 22-23, S1 into Rota Local Law 22-04.<\/p>\n

Sen. Teresita A. Santos (Ind-Rota), who is co-chair of the Rota Legislative Delegation, extended her gratitude to Hofschneider for acting expeditiously on the measure. \u201cWith this, appropriations under Section 2 of the local law can be executed with reporting requirements and no reprogramming of the same,\u201d Santos said.<\/p>\n

The senator earlier stated that with the amended bill, there is not fiscal limitations and no reprogramming of the funding.<\/p>\n

The delegation amended the bill to reflect changes in the allocation amounts and address the concern of Attorney General Edward Manibusan about a \u201cproblematic\u201d provision in the legislation.<\/p>\n

Rep. Donald M. Manglona (Ind-Rota), who is co-chair of the delegation, is the author of the bill.<\/p>\n

The amended bill, HLB 22-23, S1, proposes to allot $217,924 from the $1 million for interisland medical referral stipend for patients and their escorts under the expenditure authority of the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. chief executive officer or his\/her designee.<\/p>\n

The bill proposes to allot $290,000 for Medical Subsistence Allowance for the Rota hemodialysis and terminally-ill patients under the expenditure authority of the Finance secretary.<\/p>\n

The legislation also proposes to allot $68,000 to the Rota Liaison Office under the expenditure authority of the Rota mayor;<\/p>\n

– $45,000 shall be used to purchase a new vehicle.<\/p>\n

– 5,000 shall be used for fuel and lubrication.<\/p>\n

– $3,000 for office supplies and equipment.<\/p>\n

– $15,000 for the Rota Health Clinic assessment of hemodialysis facility and to assess for Medicare compliance and eligibility.<\/p>\n

The bill proposes to allot $50,000 to purchase a vehicle for the Department of Public Safety-Rota Criminal Investigation Division and for the cost of freight under the expenditure authority of the Rota mayor.<\/p>\n

The bill proposes to allot $374,076 for the Rota Delegation\u2019s community programs and projects under the joint expenditure authority of the chairpersons of the Delegation or their designee.<\/p>\n

Last October, Gov. Ralph DLG Torres notified the Senate and the House of Representatives that $8 million of the $15 million six-casino license fee that IPI earlier paid is available for appropriation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senate president Jude U. Hofschneider (R-Tinian) in his capacity as acting governor signed into law…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":357853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357849","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\/357849","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=357849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}