{"id":374894,"date":"2022-08-26T06:06:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T20:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=374894"},"modified":"2022-08-26T06:06:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T20:06:29","slug":"bill-seeks-to-establish-veterans-preference-employment-provision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/bill-seeks-to-establish-veterans-preference-employment-provision\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill seeks to establish veterans\u2019  preference employment provision"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_374895\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-374895\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Vicente-C.-Camacho.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-374895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Vicente-C.-Camacho-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-374895\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vicente C. Camacho<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rep. Vicente C. Camacho (D-Saipan) has introduced a bill that will establish a veterans\u2019 preference employment provision for the CNMI government.<\/p>\n<p>Camacho, who chairs the House of Representatives Federal &amp; Foreign Affairs Committee, is expected to formally introduce his legislation, H.B. 22-112, during a House session tomorrow, Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Camacho stated in the bill that the CNMI is home to veterans who have honorably served the country.<\/p>\n<p>He said these heroic men and women, along with their families, have endured the hardships that come with military service, such as serving in times of war.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker said as a token of the CNMI\u2019s immeasurable gratitude, it is highly appropriate for the government to provide employment preference and opportunities to these deserving veterans and their widows or widowers.<\/p>\n<p>Camacho said it is incumbent on the government to assist veterans with service-connected permanent or total disabilities, and to exercise such permissive preference when appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>He said U.S. federal law provides for veterans\u2019 employment preference.<\/p>\n<p>Camacho said certain states and territories, such as Guam, Florida, California, and others, have exercised their own forms of veterans\u2019 preference.<\/p>\n<p>He said cognizant of such efforts by the different states and territories, it is imperative that the CNMI implement its own form of veterans\u2019 preference.<\/p>\n<p>The bill seeks to amend Title I, Division 8 of the Commonwealth Code by establishing such veterans\u2019 preference employment provision.<\/p>\n<p>Under the legislation, the Office of Personnel Management shall promulgate regulations to implement veterans\u2019 preference in examination for the civil service for preference-eligible veterans and family members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Vicente C. Camacho (D-Saipan) has introduced a bill that will establish a veterans\u2019 preference&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":374895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374894","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\/374894","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=374894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}