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TWENTIETH CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA FOURTH REGULAR SESSION, 2018 C.R.

NO.

20-104 A RESOLUTION Authorizing the President to submit the Recommended National Government Compact Budget Request, as revised pursuant to Congress’s recommendations, to the United States under Article V of the Fiscal Procedures Agreement.
1 WHEREAS, the Federated States of Micronesia and the United 2 States of America have entered into a Compact of Free Association, 3 as amended; and 4 WHEREAS, title 55 of the Code of the Federated States of 5 Micronesia (Annotated), at section 103(4)(d), requires the 6 President of the Federated States of Micronesia to submit to 7 Congress a Recommended National Government Compact Budget Request 8 for the ensuing fiscal year; and 9 WHEREAS, title 55 of the Code of the Federated States of 10 Micronesia (Annotated), as amended, at section 103(5)(b), permits 11 the Congress, by resolution, to recommend changes to the 12 Recommended National Government Compact Budget Request in any 13 respect consistent with the Compact, as amended; and 14 WHEREAS, title 55 of the Code of the Federated States of 15 Micronesia (Annotated), as amended, at section 303(4), as amended, 16 sets the National Government share of Compact Budget Requests for 17 Fiscal Year 2015 and thereafter, except Supplemental Education 18 Grants under section 105 of the Amended Compact and after JEMCO 19 funds the College of Micronesia-FSM, at zero percent (0%); and CRL 20-111 C.R.
NO.
20-104 1 WHEREAS, the Recommended National Government Budget Request 2 submitted by the President to Congress for Fiscal Year 2019 3 reflects the current law and requests Education Sector Grant in 4 the amount of $1,000,000 to fund the College of Micronesia-FSM, 5 $9,218,000 from National Government’s share of Compact Sector 6 Infrastructure carry-over funds prior to 2015 to fund College of 7 Micronesia-FSM infrastructure improvement, and Supplemental 8 Education Grants under section 105 of the Amended Compact for the 9 National Department of Education in the amount of $922,672 and for 10 College of Micronesia-FSM in the amount of $689,948, and the 11 Twentieth Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia concurs 12 with the President’s proposed funding level; and 13 WHEREAS, it is the intent of Congress and the Committee on 14 Education, in the forthcoming Standing Committee Report for the 15 recommended FY 2019 Budget, to concur and recommend with the above 16 Recommended National Government Budget Request submitted by the 17 President to Congress for Fiscal Year 2019; now, therefore, 18 BE IT RESOLVED by the Twentieth Congress of the Federated 19 States of Micronesia, Fourth Regular Session, 2018, that Congress 20 recommends the President submit the National Government Compact 21 Budget Request as set forth in the Recommended National Government 22 Compact Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2019; and 23 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that pursuant to title 55 of the Code 24 of the Federated States of Micronesia (Annotated), section 103(7), 25 the President of the Federated States of Micronesia (Annotated), 2 of 3 C.R.
NO.

20-104 1 as amended, is hereby authorized to submit the National Government 2 Compact Budget Request, in conformity with the terms of this 3 resolution, to the United States of America under Article V of the 4 Fiscal Procedures Agreement; and 5 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this 6 resolution be transmitted to the President of the Federated States 7 of Micronesia and the Embassy of the United States of America in 8 Kolonia, Pohnpei.
9 10 Dated: 5/24/18 Introduced by: /s/ Joseph J. Urusemal Joseph J. Urusemal of 3