{"id":398364,"date":"2023-08-31T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=398364"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Bill-seeks-to-appropriate-1-9M-poker-fees-to-SHEFA-OAG-DOC-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Bill-seeks-to-appropriate-1-9M-poker-fees-to-SHEFA-OAG-DOC-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill seeks to appropriate $1.9M poker fees to SHEFA, OAG, DOC, others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Blas Jonathan T. Attao (Ind-Saipan) has introduced a local bill that seeks to appropriate $1.93 million in poker fee revenue to the Saipan Higher Education Financial Assistance program, Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office, Office of the Attorney General, Department of Corrections, and other agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Under Attao\u2019s House Local Bill 23-24, which is co-sponsored by several other lawmakers, $1.55 million will be appropriated to the Saipan Higher Education Financial Assistance program, with $250,000 to be reserved for SHEFA personnel and operations.<\/p>\n<p>Of the remaining $385,000, $100,000 will be appropriated to the Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office for personnel and\/or operations; $50,000 for the Northern Islands Mayor\u2019s Office personnel and\/or operations; $50,000 for the Saipan Humane Society Inc.; $50,000 for the Office of the Attorney General\u2019s Criminal Division; $75,000 for the Saipan Zoning Office; and $60,000 for the Department of Corrections\u2019 rehabilitation and upgrade of the Juvenile Detention Section.<\/p>\n<p>Under the bill, the Finance secretary is tasked with regulating and controlling the expenditure of the funds.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/c36be2fa29050c72332db73973ee7af3.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Blas Jonathan T. Attao<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Blas Jonathan T. Attao (Ind-Saipan) has introduced a local bill that seeks to appropriate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398364","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}