FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 7, 2012
(Adelup, Guam) Governor Eddie Baza Calvo signed eleven bills into law and vetoed one this week. Bill Number 382-31, now Public Law 31-173 was sponsored by Senator Yamashita. The law will create the Guam Forestry System to augment the mandated responsibility of the Guam Department of Agriculture. The purpose of this law is to protect the scarce resources of our island.
Public Law 31-180 was sponsored by Senator Chris Duenas. This law addresses the need to train people for careers they can use here on Guam. “Building Guam’s Trades Scholarship Program” will help economically disadvantaged residents with the ability to enroll in and complete an apprenticeship program.
In his transmittal letter to Speaker Judith T. Won Pat, Governor Calvo is asking that in the future, the legislators identify funding sources for the mandates it passes. The Legislative Office of Finance and Budget should be assisting senators in prioritizing appropriations for new mandates. He wrote, “Because of the significance of the legislation proposed by I Mina’ Trentai Unu Na Liheslaturan GuÃ¥han in these Bills delivered for my action, I cannot, in good conscience, refuse to acknowledge their importance by refusing to sign them into law. However, because I also recognize that the goal of the new laws is to afford additional protections to our community, I am now tasked with trying to identify funding to carry out these programs — no easy feat given the carcass that is the General Fund.”
The Governor emphasizes that the senators must include an appropriation in all bills calling for new expenditures. He wrote, “You hold the purse strings of this government and, consequently, it is your obligation to ensure that I have the financial resources to carry out these mandates so our people are not saddled by yet another lawsuit to command this government to provide them with the programs or entitlements that this legislature determined was their statutory right.”
The complete listing of Bills signed into law follow:
Bill No. 99-31 (COR) AN ACT TO ADD A NEW ARTICLE 3 TO CHAPTER 120 OF TITLE 8, GUAM CODE ANNOTATED, RELATIVE TO REQUIRING CONVICTED SEX OFFENDERS, INTER ALIOS, TO SUBMIT TO DNA PROFILING Signed into Law on February 3, 2012 as Public Law No. 31-171 by Governor Eddie Baza Calvo
Bill No. 296-31 (LS) AN ACT TO ADD A NEW §90.16 TO ARTICLE 1 OF CHAPTER 90, TITLE 9, GUAM CODE ANNOTATED, RELATIVE TO ESTABLISHING MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE POSITION OF DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS OFFICER Signed into Law on February 3, 2012 as Public Law No. 31-172 by Governor Eddie Baza Calvo
Bill No. 382-31 AN ACT TO ADD A NEW ARTICLE 5 TO CHAPTER 63 OF TITLE 5, GUAM CODE ANNOTATED, RELATIVE TO ESTABLISHING THE GUAM FOREST SYSTEM; AND TO CITE THIS ACT AS THE “GUAM FORESTRY LEGACY ACT OF 2012” Signed into Law on February 3, 2012 as Public Law No. 31-173 by Governor Eddie Baza Calvo
Bill No. 124-31 AN ACT TO ADD A NEW §34155 TO ARTICLE 1, CHAPTER 34 OF TITLE 5, GUAM CODE ANNOTATED, RELATIVE TO THE “MOST WANTED DELINQUENT ABSENT PARENT LIST” AND OTHER CHILD SUPPORT LISTS OF DELINQUENT OBLIGORS Signed into Law on February 3, 2012 as Public Law No. 31-174 by Governor Eddie Baza Calvo
Bill No. 272-31 AN ACT TO ADD A NEW §43101 TO ARTICLE 1 OF CHAPTER 43 OF TITLE 5, GUAM CODE ANNOTATED, RELATIVE TO PROHIBITING MEMBERS OF BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS FROM PROCURING GOODS AND SERVICES TO ANY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT, AGENCY OR INSTRUMENTALITY IN WHICH THEY ARE APPOINTED TO SERVE Signed into Law on February 3, 2012 as Public Law No. 31-175 by Governor Eddie Baza Calvo
Bill No. 292-31 AN ACT TO AMEND §3812 OF ARTICLE 8, CHAPTER 3, AND §2912.10 OF ARTICLE 9, CHAPTER 2, ALL OF TITLE 10, GUAM CODE ANNOTATED, RELATIVE TO AUTHORIZING THE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES TO OBTAIN REIMBURSEMENT FOR SERVICES RENDERED TO MEDICAL INDIGENT PROGRAM PATIENTS Signed into Law on February 3, 2012 as Public Law No. 31-176 by Governor Eddie Baza Calvo
Bill No. 309-31 AN ACT TO AMEND §§3102.1, 7160(e) AND 7161(f) OF TITLE 16; §51506(d) OF TITLE 10; AND §4104(b) OF TITLE 4, ALL OF THE GUAM CODE ANNOTATED, RELATIVE TO THE CONTINUING APPLICATION OF BENEFITS TO GUAM’S VETERANS Signed into Law on February 3, 2012 as Public Law No. 31-177 by Governor Eddie Baza Calvo
Bill No. 327-31 AN ACT TO AMEND §40135, AND TO ADD NEW §§40137, 40138, 40139, 40140, 40141 AND 40142, ALL OF CHAPTER 40, DIVISION 4 OF TITLE 5, GUAM CODE ANNOTATED, RELATIVE TO GYMNASIUM REVOLVING FUNDS WITHIN VARIOUS ISLAND MUNICIPALITIES Signed into Law on February 3, 2012 as Public Law No. 31-178 by Governor Eddie Baza Calvo
Bill No. 390-31 AN ACT TO AMEND SUBSECTIONS (a) AND (i), AND TO ADD A NEW SUBSECTION (j) TO §77104 OF ARTICLE 1 OF CHAPTER 77, TITLE 21, GUAM CODE ANNOTATED, RELATIVE TO THE DUTIES OF THE DIRECTOR OF PARKS AND RECREATION, AND PROVIDING THE AUTHORITY TO DETERMINE THE APPROPRIATE NUMBER OF VENDORS FOR THE GUAM PARK SYSTEM; AND TO REPEAL §2105 OF CHAPTER 2, OF DIVISION 1 OF TITLE 23, GUAM ADMINISTRATIVE RULES AND REGULATIONS, RELATIVE TO THE NUMBER OF ALLOWABLE PARK VENDORS Signed into Law on February 3, 2012 as Public Law No. 31-179 by Governor Eddie Baza Calvo
Bill No. 193-31 AN ACT TO ADD A NEW §44115 TO CHAPTER 44 OF TITLE 22, GUAM CODE ANNOTATED, RELATIVE TO ESTABLISHING A SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM FOR ECONOMICALLY-DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS SEEKING CAREERS IN THE CONSTRUCTION TRADES, AND PROVIDING FUNDING SOURCES FOR THE PROGRAM; AND TO CITE THIS ACT AS THE“BUILDING GUAM’S TRADES SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM” Signed into Law on February 3, 2012 as Public Law No. 31-180 by Governor Eddie Baza Calvo
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