{"id":381135,"date":"2022-12-07T06:06:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T20:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=381135"},"modified":"2022-12-07T06:06:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T20:06:42","slug":"torres-oks-2-rota-bills-for-scholarships-patients-allowance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/torres-oks-2-rota-bills-for-scholarships-patients-allowance\/","title":{"rendered":"Torres OKs 2 Rota bills for scholarships, patients\u2019 allowance"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_381136\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-381136\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/torres-manglona.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-381136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/torres-manglona-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-381136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ralph DLG Torres and Donald M. Manglona<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gov. Ralph DLG Torres has signed into law a local bill that will appropriate $24,500 from the Rota Municipal Scholarship Foundation Reserve Account for student scholarships and housing assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Torres also signed into law a local bill that will appropriate $10,000 from the Poker Licensing Fee Account for Medical Subsistence Allowance for Rota\u2019s hemodialysis and terminally-ill patients.<\/p>\n<p>The governor said Thursday that the scholarship legislation, House Local Bill 22-39, D1, is now Rota Local Law 22-11, while the patients&#8217; allowance legislation, House Local Bill 22-40, D1, is now Rota Local Law 22-12.<\/p>\n<p>Torres informed Sen. Teresita A. Santos (Ind-Rota) and Rep. Donald M. Manglona (Ind-Rota), who co-chair the Rota Legislative Delegation, about his enactment of the two local bills.<\/p>\n<p>Manglona is the author of the two bills.<\/p>\n<p>Under the legislations, the expenditure authority of the $24,500 for scholarship shall be the chairman of the Rota Municipal Scholarship Foundation Board, while for the $10,000 for allowance shall be the Secretary of Finance.<\/p>\n<p>The Rota Legislative Delegation unanimously passed the bills last Nov. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ralph DLG Torres has signed into law a local bill that will appropriate $24,500&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":381136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381135","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\/381135","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=381135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}