{"id":9132,"date":"2011-12-20T04:34:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T04:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=9132"},"modified":"2011-12-20T04:34:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T04:34:42","slug":"house-oks-transfer-of-workers-compensation-from-fund-to-commerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/house-oks-transfer-of-workers-compensation-from-fund-to-commerce\/","title":{"rendered":"House OKs transfer of Workers Compensation from Fund to Commerce"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Haidee V. Eugenio<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>By a vote of 20-0, the House of Representatives passed yesterday a bill transferring the administrative functions of the Workers Compensation Commission from the NMI Retirement Fund board of trustees to the Department of Commerce secretary.<\/p>\n<p>The bill says transferring the administrative functions of WCC to Commerce is appropriate, because Commerce is a permitting and enforcement agency, to ensure compliance with the Workers&#8217; Compensation Law.<\/p>\n<p>House Bill 17-14, House Draft 3 now goes to the Senate. The bill was introduced by Rep. Edmund Villagomez (Cov-Saipan) who, along with Rep. Teresita Santos (Ind-Rota), made floor amendments yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>By a vote of 19-1, the House passed Rep. Trenton Conner&#8217;s (R-Tinian) HB 17-196, which seeks to preserve and designate 2 hectares of public land on Tinian for the future site of a Tinian Veterans Cemetery. Only Rep. Froilan Tenorio (Cov-Saipan) voted \u201cno\u201d to the bill.<\/p>\n<p>The House also passed Rep. Ray Tebuteb&#8217;s (R-Saipan) HB 17-132, requiring vehicles hauling trailers or similar cargo to have red taillights for road safety. The bill passed by a vote of 20-0.<\/p>\n<p>Also passed on a 20-0 vote was HB 17-232, permitting private employers to exercise a voluntary veterans&#8217; preference in employment.<\/p>\n<p>The House also reconsidered its passage during a previous session of Senate Legislative Initiative 17-12, which authorizes the Northern Marianas College Board of Regents to revise its mission statement, because of constitutional issues.<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Eli Cabrera (R-Saipan) referred the initiative back to the Education Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The House also House rejected by a 20-0 vote the latest Senate amendment to Rep. Stanley Torres&#8217; (Ind-Saipan) bill seeking to expunge criminal records after at least five years for felony convictions and after three years for misdemeanor, among other things.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker formed a conference committee that will work with their Senate counterparts to come up with a version that&#8217;s acceptable to conferees from both houses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Haidee V. Eugenio Reporter By a vote of 20-0, the House of Representatives passed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9132","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\/9132","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=9132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}