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TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA FIRST SPECIAL SESSION, 2019 C.B.

NO.

21-16 A BILL FOR AN ACT To appropriate $64,677,508 from the General Fund of the Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, to provide funding for the operations of all branches of the National Government of the Federated States of Micronesia, its agencies, various programs, grants, subsidies and contributions, capital improvement projects, and other purposes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA: 1 Section 1.

Purpose.

The purpose of this act is to 2 appropriate the sum of $64,677,508, from the General Fund of the 3 Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending 4 September 30, 2020, for the purpose of funding the operations of 5 all branches of the National Government of the Federated States of 6 Micronesia, its agencies, various programs, grants, subsidies and 7 contributions and capital improvement projects.
Of the total 8 amount of funds appropriated herein, $1,000,000 shall be deemed to 9 come from funds available under the amended Compact education 10 sector grant; and $1,640,641 shall be deemed to come from funds 11 available under the Supplemental Education Grant.

The sum 12 appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: 13 Section 2.

Operating expenses of the Executive Branch.


The 14 sum of $27,445,460, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is 15 hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the Federated States 16 of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, for 17 the purpose of funding the operations of the Executive Branch of CBL 21-13/PC #21-16 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.
NO.

21-16 1 the National Government during the fiscal year.

Of the total 2 amount of funds appropriated herein, $394,619 shall be deemed to 3 come from funds available under Supplemental Education Grant.

The 4 sum appropriated by this section shall be apportioned as follows: 5 (1) Office of the President.

6 The sum of $2,006,034, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 7 the operations of the Office of the President during the fiscal 8 year 2020.
The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 9 follows: Personnel .................................. $ 788,638 Travel ...................................... 437,696 Contractual Services ......................... 601,000 OCE ......................................... 147,200 Fixed Assets ............................... .

31,500 (2) Department of Foreign Affairs.


16 The sum of $5,456,600, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 17 the operations of the Department of Foreign Affairs during the 18 fiscal year 2020.

The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned 19 as follows: Personnel .................................. $ 1,748,378 Travel ...................................... 383,473 Contractual Services.
........................ 2,895,429 OCE ..................... .................... 374,064 Fixed Assets ........... ..................... 55,256 (3) Department of Finance and Administration.

2 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.
NO.

21-16 1 The sum of $3,030,476, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 2 the operations of the Department of Finance and Administration 3 during the fiscal year 2020.
The sum appropriated herein shall be 4 apportioned as follows: Personnel ............................. ..... $ 2,146,435 Travel ................................ ...... 335,132 Contractual Services................... ..... 227,500 OCE ................................... ...... 277,900 Fixed Assets .......................... ..... 43,500 10 (4) Department of Resources and Development.
11 The sum of $1,849,231, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 12 the operations of the Department of Resources and Development 13 during the fiscal year 2020.

The sum appropriated herein shall be 14 apportioned as follows: Personnel ................................. .

$ 907,314 Travel ..................................... .

292,527 Contractual Services........................ .

459,850 OCE ........................................ .
187,540 Fixed Assets ........................... ..... 2,000 (5) Department of Transportation, Communications and Infrastructure.

22 The sum of $4,740,203, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 23 the operations of the Department of Transportation, Communications 24 & Infrastructure during the fiscal year 2020.
The sum appropriated 25 herein shall be apportioned as follows: 3 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.
NO.

21-16 Personnel ................................. ... $ 754,686 Travel ..................................... ... 405,347 Contractual Services........................ ... 2,103,440 OCE ........................................ ... 1,442,430 Fixed Assets ............................... .. 34,300 (6) Department of Health and Social Affairs.
7 The sum of $1,406,318, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 8 the operations of the Department of Health and Social Affairs 9 during the fiscal year 2020.
The sum appropriated herein shall be 10 apportioned as follows: Personnel ........................ ........ ....$ 768,652 Travel ........................... ......... .... 227,400 Contractual Services............. ......... ..... 140,940 OCE .............................. ......... .... 266,326 Fixed Assets ..................... ......... .... 3,000 (7) Department of Education.
17 The sum of $1,085,375, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 18 the operations of the Department of Education during the fiscal 19 year 2020.

Of the total amount of funds appropriated herein, 20 $394,619, shall be deemed to come from funds available under the 21 Supplemental Education Grant.
The sum appropriated herein shall be 22 apportioned as follows: 23 24 25 Personnel .............................. ... ...$ 530,444 Travel ................................. ... .... 295,416 Contractual Services.................... ... .... 192,386 4 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.
NO.

21-16 1 2 3 OCE ................................... .. .....$ 59,129 Fixed Assets ........................... ... .... 8,000 (8) Department of Justice.

4 The sum of $5,508,996, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 5 the operations of the Department of Justice during the fiscal year 6 2020.
The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 7 follows: Personnel ............................... ... ..$ 3,643,074 Travel ................................. ... .... 374,802 Contractual Services.................... ... .... 1,006,377 OCE .................................... ... .... 377,443 Fixed Assets ........................... ... .... 107,300 (9) Department of Climate Change, Environment and Emergency Management.
15 The sum of $852,579, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 16 the operations of the Office of Environment and Emergency 17 Management during the fiscal year 2020.

The sum appropriated 18 herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel ............................... ... ..$ 545,058 Travel .................................... ... .
199,301 Contractual Services..................... ... ... 50,000 OCE ...................................... ... .. 47,120 Fixed Assets ............................. ... .. 11,100 (10) Office of the Public Defender.

25 The sum of $1,300,351, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 5 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.
NO.

21-16 1 the operations of the Office of the Public Defender during the 2 fiscal year 2020.
The sum appropriated herein shall be 3 apportioned as follows: Personnel ................................. ... $ 744,081 Travel ..................................... ... 140,120 Contractual Services........................ .. 314,250 OCE ........................................ ... 86,900 Fixed Assets ............................... ... 15,000 (11) Office of National Archives, Culture and Historic 10 Preservation.
11 The sum of $209,306, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 12 the operations of the Office of National Archives, Culture and 13 Historic Preservation during the fiscal year 2020.
The sum 14 appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel ................................. ... $ 143,018 Travel ................................... ... .. 70,912 Contractual Services..................... ... ... 65,425 OCE ...................................... ... .. 33,235 Fixed Assets.............................. ... .. 7,000 Section 3.

Operating Expenses of the Legislative 21 Branch.


The sum of $5,515,204, or so much thereof as may be 22 necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the 23 Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending 24 September 30, 2020, for the operations of the Legislative Branch 25 of the National Government during the fiscal year 2020.
The sum 6 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.

21-16 1 appropriated by this section shall be apportioned as follows: 2 (1) Speaker and Members.

3 The sum of $2,676,118, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 4 the operations of the Office of the Speaker and Members of the 5 Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia during the fiscal 6 year 2020.
The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 7 follows: Personnel ................................. ... $ 438,150 Travel ..................................... ... 663,368 Contractual Services........................ ... 1,574,600 OCE ........................................ ...

Fixed Assets ............................... ... -0- -0- (2) Staff Office.
14 The sum of $2,349,086, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 15 the operations of the Congress staff offices during the fiscal 16 year 2020.

The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 17 follows: Personnel ................................. ... $ 1,236,056 Travel..................................... ... .

150,000 Contractual Services....................... ... .
474,030 OCE...................................... ... ... 259,000 Fixed Assets............................ ... .... 230,000 (3) Congress Delegation Offices.

24 The sum of $490,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 25 the operations of the Congress delegation offices during the 7 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.

21-16 1 fiscal year 2020.


The sum appropriated is apportioned as follows: (i) Kosrae Delegation Office......... ... $ 70,000 (ii) Pohnpei Delegation Office ............ 140,000 (iii) Chuuk Delegation Office .............. 210,000 (iv) Yap Delegation Office ................ 70,000 Section 4.

Operating Expenses of the National Judicial 7 Branch.
The sum of $1,724,028, or so much thereof as may be 8 necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the 9 Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending 10 September 30, 2020, for the operations of the Judicial Branch of 11 the National Government during the fiscal year 2020.
The sum 12 appropriated by this section shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel.................................. ... $ 1,026,562 Travel...................................... ... 185,978 Contractual Services..................... ... ... 213,100 OCE...................................... ... ... 155,388 Fixed Assets.............................. ... .. 143,000 Section 5.

Operating Expenses of the National Public 19 Auditor.
The sum of $896,220, or so much thereof as may be 20 necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the 21 Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending 22 September 30, 2020, for the operations of the National Office of 23 the Public Auditor and for the National Public Auditor’s Chuuk 24 Office.
The sum appropriated by this section shall be apportioned 25 as follows: 8 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.
NO.

21-16 Personnel ................................ ... .$ 580,920 Travel.................................... ... .. 139,000 Contractual Services..................... ... ... 99,800 OCE..................................... ... .... 66,500 Fixed Assets............................... ... .

10,000 Section 6.

Operating Expenses of Agencies, Boards, Authorities, and Commissions of the National Government.
8 The sum of $3,079,016, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is 9 hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the Federated States 10 of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, for 11 the operations of the following boards, commissions and agencies 12 during the fiscal year 2020.

The sum appropriated by this section 13 shall be apportioned as follows: 14 (1) National Oceanic Resource Management Authority (NORMA).
15 The sum of $1,112,266, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 16 the operations of NORMA for the fiscal year 2020.
The sum 17 appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel ................................. ... $ 691,518 Travel.................................. ... .... 185,698 Contractual Services.................... ... .... 159,750 OCE..................................... ... .... 75,300 Fixed Assets........................... ... ..... -0- (2) Board of Regents (COM-FSM).
24 The sum of $115,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 25 the operations of the Board of Regents, COM-FSM during the fiscal 9 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.

21-16 1 year 2020.

The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 2 follows: Personnel................................. ... .$ -0- Travel..................................... ... .
60,000 Contractual Services........................ ... 30,000 OCE......................................... ... 25,000 Fixed Assets................................ ... -0- (3) FSM Banking Board.

9 The sum of $264,301, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 10 the operations of FSM Banking Board during the fiscal year 2020.
11 The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel ................................. ... $ 120,031 Travel................................. ... ..... 84,728 Contractual Services..................... ... ... 32,442 OCE...................................... ... ... 25,100 Fixed Assets............................. ... ... 2,000 (4) FSM Insurance Board.
18 The sum of $633,270, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 19 the operations of FSM Insurance Board during the fiscal year 2020.
20 The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel ............................... ... ..$ 131,531 Travel................................. ... ..... 78,920 Contractual Services..................... ... ... 347,175 OCE..................................... ... .... 23,544 Fixed Assets............................. ... ... 52,100 10 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.
NO.

21-16 1 (5) FSM Postal Services.

2 The sum of $954,179, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 3 the operations of the National Postal Services during the fiscal 4 year 2020.
The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 5 follows: Personnel.............................. ... ....$ 546,818 Travel.................................. ... .... 74,047 Contractual Services.................. ... ...... 187,119 OCE..................................... ... .... 146,195 Fixed Assets.............................. ... .. -0- Section 7.

Special Programs.
Special Programs.

The sum of $467,173, or so 12 much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated from the 13 General Fund of the Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal 14 year ending September 30, 2020, for the following special programs 15 during the fiscal year 2020.

The sum appropriated by this section 16 shall be apportioned as follows: 17 (1) National Election Office.
18 The sum of $417,173, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 19 the operations of National Election Office during the fiscal year 20 2020.

The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 21 follows: 22 23 24 25 Personnel.................................. ... $ 252,040 Travel..................................... ... .
23,018 Contractual Services........................ ... 59,152 OCE......................................... ... 82,963 11 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.

21-16 1 2 Fixed Assets................................ .. $ -0- Section 8.

Grants, Subsidies and Contributions.


The sum of 3 The sum of $10,349,309, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is 4 hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the Federated States 5 of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, for 6 the following grants, subsidies and contributions during fiscal 7 year 2020.

The sum appropriated by this section shall be 8 apportioned as follows: (1) Office of the President.

(a) Asia Pacific Inst.


Broadcasting Dev (AIBD) .................... $ 4,500 (b) Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) (c) Pacific Island News Association (PINA) (d) Asia Pacific Investment .......... 800 350 250 (e) Former Presidents’ Allowance ..... 50,000 (f) Implementation of JCRP ........... 390,000 (g) Presidential Inauguration ........ 100,000 (2) Department of Foreign Affairs.

(a) Pacific Is.

Forum Secretariat.


... 57,000 (b) Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) ............................. 65,000 (c) UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) ............ 5,000 (d) UN Membership Fee and related contributions to UN bodies and agencies ..... 50,000 12 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.
NO.

21-16 (e) East West Center ................ $ 5,000 (f) Cotonou Membership Fee (ACP) ..... 17,000 (g) SPC Office Space ................. 29,670 (h) SIS Program ...................... 10,000 (i) IOM Membership Fee ............... 600 (j) SPC Host Grant ................... 20,000 (k) Differences in grant, subsidies, need to clarify the differences .................. 1,290 (3) Department of Finance and Administration.
(a) CTA-OCO Membership Fee ........... 14,024 (b) Maintenance Fee for Financial Management System ........................... 55,000 (c) PITTA – CTA ...................... 9,000 (d) ADB, IMF & Budget Finance Policy Consultations ........................ 25,000 (e) Macro Economist Advisor .......... 200,000 (f) Global Membership Fees ........... 26,000 (g) PFTAC Membership Fees ............ 20,000 (h) CTA Conference ................... 35,000 (4) Department of Resources and Development.
(a) Pacific Asian Travel Association .

6,000 (b) United Nations Development Program 30,000 (c) Micronesia Challenge Endowment Fund 50,000 (d) FAO .............................. 4,800 (e) Western Forestry Leadership 13 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.
NO.

21-16 Coalition (WFLC) ........................... $ 530 (f) SPC Matching Fund ................ 60,000 (g) Micronesian Challenge ............ 10,000 (h) Micronesian Cruise Association ... (i) South Pacific Tourism Org (SPTO) .

(j) IRENA ............................ 2,500 8,000 250 (k) Micronesian Trade Committee ...... 30,000 (l) UNIDO ............................ 1,000 (5) Department of Health and Social Affairs.
(a) UN Fund for Population Activity UNFPA) 3,000 (b) World Health Organization ........ 4,650 (c) PIHOA ............................ 20,000 (d) Association of Territorial Health Org (ASTHO) .......................... 4,000 (e) National Board of Nursing & Medical Licensing .......................... 60,000 (f) FSM Red Cross .................... 110,000 (g) UNICEF (Vaccine & TB Drugs Purchase Scheme) ............................ 50,000 (h) UN/FSM Women (CEDAW) ............. (i) Drug Quality Testing ............. 1,000 3,000 (j) National Therapeutics & Standards Committee ................................. 37,000 (k) Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) ... 10,000 (l) FSM Youth Summit ................. 50,000 14 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.
NO.

21-16 (m) TB & Leprosy – Free Chuuk Project: Treating Leprosy, Active TB & Latent TB .... $ 100,000 (6) Department of Education.

(a) Aid for Non-Public School.


....... 600,000 (b) Financial Assistance to FSM Students Attending CMI ...................... 40,000 (c) Financial Assistance to FSM Students Attending PCC ...................... 150,000 (d) National Close-up Local Program .. 75,000 (e) National Scholarship Fund ........ 2,250,000 (f) National Merit Scholarship ....... 275,000 (7) Department of Transportation, Communications & Infrastructure.
(a) Asia Pacific Telecommunity ........ 11,000 (b) International Telecommunications Union (ITU) .................................. 20,867 (c) ICAO .............................. 28,050 (d) FSM Capital Energy Utilities ...... 600,000 (e) Micronesian Shipping Commission ... 25,000 (8) Department of Justice.
(a) Kosrae JLEA ...................... 75,000 (b) Pohnpei JLEA ..................... 200,000 (c) Chuuk JLEA ....................... 200,000 (d) Yap JLEA ......................... 75,000 (e) Police Academy ................... 200,000 15 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.
NO.

21-16 (f) DOJ Fuel Subsidy ................ $ 200,000 (g) World Intellectual Property Org .
33,966 (h) Settlement or court judgment ..... 200,000 (i) WIPO fee and arrears ............. 33,966 (9) Department of DECCEM (a) UNEP ............................. (b) UN Framework Convention (UNFCC) .. 835 325 (c) UN Convention to Combat Desertification 195 (d) Secretariat of the Pacific Region Environment Program (SPREP) .......... 10,768 (e) Waigani Convention ............... (f) SPREP Noumea Convention .......... 1,190 1,764 (g) Earth Day Activities ............. 15,000 (h) 7th Bi-Annual Environment Conference 20,000 (i) Basel Convention ................. (j) Kyoto Protocol ................... 197 484 (k) WMO Membership (current fee and outstanding prior obligations ............... 15,000 (10) Office of NACHP.
(a) UNESCO membership fee ............ (b) NCSHPO ........................... (c) PARBICA .......................... (d) PIALA ............................ (e) WHC .............................. (f) Library fee ...................... 4,000 2,760 100 100 54 50 16 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.
NO.

21-16 (11) Congress of FSM.
(a) IPU Conference .................. $ 250,000 (b) Climate Change Conference ........ 50,000 (c) ACP .............................. 30,000 (d) APPF ............................. 50,000 (e) Staff Upgrade .................... 25,000 (f) WB-IMF Annual Meeting ............ 50,000 (g) MRA Conference in Japan .......... 30,000 (h) Fisheries Meeting ................ 30,000 (i) IPU Annual dues .................. 12,500 (j) COFA Alliance Nat’l Network ...... 25,000 (k) Travel to Investment Advisor (Wilshire) 70,000 (l) Compact of Free Association Historical Project .......................... 150,000 (m) 21st Congress Inauguration ........ 50,000 (12) Resources (Other Grants, Subsidies & Contributions) (a) NORMA-Forum Fisheries Agency (NORMA) 62,638 (b) COM Board Meeting ................ 5,000 (c) Kosrae Judiciary Subsidy ........ .
40,000 (d) Pohnpei Judiciary Subsidy.

....... 60,000 (e) Chuuk Judiciary Subsidy.. ........ 110,000 (f) Yap Judiciary Subsidy ............ 40,000 (g) Micronesian Legal Services Corporation 250,000 (h) NORMA-WCPFC Membership fee ....... 257,284 17 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.
21-16 (i) Independence Day Activities ..... $ 50,000 (j) MLFC Loan Payment ................ 260,000 (k) FY2018 Single Audit .............. 460,000 (l) Staff housing .................... 660,000 (m) Recruitment & Repatriation ....... 223,218 (n) OPA-Staff Development and Membership Fee Participation in APIPA .................. 1,750 (o) OPA-Staff Development and Membership Fee Participation in PASAI .................. 15,000 (p) OPA-Staff Development and Membership Fee Participation in 2020 Annual Conference .
29,000 Section 9.

Capital and Human Resources Development.

13 The sum of $15,251,098, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is 14 hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the Federated States 15 of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, for 16 the following capital improvements, development programs, and 17 projects and human resources development.
Of the total amount of 18 funds appropriated herein, $1,000,000 shall be deemed to come from 19 funds available under the amended Compact from education sector; 20 and $1,246,022 shall be deemed to come from funds available under 21 Supplemental Education Grant.

The sum appropriated by this 22 section shall be apportioned as follows: 23 24 25 (1) College of Micronesia – FSM.
(a) COM-FSM – operation ............. $ 3,800,000 (b) Fisheries Maritime Institute ..... 919,392 18 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.

21-16 (c) Supplemental Education Grant .... $ 689,948 (d) COM-FSM Fund ..................... 285,500 (2) Department of Finance & Administration.

(a)FSM Warehouse lease & maintenance .


40,000 (b) PCD Awareness & Training ........ 15,000 (3) Department of Resources & Development.

(a) R&D SNLC ......................... 60,000 (b) National Coastal Fisheries Monitoring Team/Developing FSM Coastal Fisheries Policy .
150,000 (c) Intellectual Property Rights Regime 117,818 (d) National Trade Facilitation Committee Meeting (NTFC) ..................... 50,000 (e) Improve Governance & Institutional Reform in FSM Tourism Sector ................. 500,000 (f) Annual Tourism Conference ........ 50,000 (g) Implementation of the State Tourism Investment Plans ............................. 500,000 (h) Human Resources & Capacity Building in the Tourism Industry ...................... 250,000 (i) Expo 2020 Dubai, UAE ............. 250,000 (j) FSM National Energy Sector Development Plan Assistance .................. 500,000 (4) Department of Transportation, Communications and Infrastructure.
(a) Operation and drydocking of Caroline 19 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.
NO.

21-16 Voyager & Navigator ......................... $ 1,500,000 (b) FSM National Government Computer Network ............................. 277,240 (c) New Warehouse Building ........... 200,000 (d) Airport Needs .................... 220,000 (5) Department of Justice.
(a) Anti-human trafficking enforcement, campaign and investigation ................... 125,000 (b) Victims Shelter & Services ....... 100,000 (c) Boat maintenance ................. 125,000 (d) PII Case Arbitration ............. 150,000 (6) DECCEM.
(a) National & State Table Top Exercise 30,000 (b) Outer Island Trip Assessment on Climate Change & Disaster Risk Management .... 80,000 (c) National Joint Platform for Environment & Risk Resilience ................ 20,000 (d) International Day for Disaster Reduction 12,000 (e) Training & Maintenance for Radio Communication ................................ 14,000 (f) Fostering Sustainable Solid Waste Management Systems in FSM .................... 165,000 (7) National Election.
(a) National Election (Voter ID Card Project) ................................... 50,000 20 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.

21-16 (8) Department of Health and Social Affairs.
(a) Medical specialist team ......... $ 195,000 (b) Doctors for tomorrow: Foundation Project ..................................... 127,500 (c) MOE Project BHWP Med ............. 22,200 (d) Electronic Health Record System .. 150,000 (e) Youth Sports Program ............. 50,000 (f) Rheumatic Heart Program .......... 90,000 (g) FSM National Women Council ....... 50,000 (h) FSM Vector Surveillance & Control Program ................................... 50,000 (i) Implementing IHR Core Capacity to Improve Health Security ...................... 50,000 (9) Department of Education.
(a) NDOE Year 3 Project (SEG) ........ 556,074 (b) School Accreditation ............. 394,655 (c) Literacy intervention for FSM Leaders of Tomorrow (LIFT) ................... 181,170 (d) Assessment & Research Project .... 195,119 (e) Development of Science Student Learning Outcomes (SLO’s) .................... 273,982 (f) Quality Development .............. 15,000 (g) Pacific Academy and Technical Skills (PATS) ................................ 1,000,000 (h) NDOE Office Space ................ 500,000 21 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.
NO.

21-16 (10) NORMA (a) Commemoration of World Tuna Day—May 2018 ................................ $ 25,000 (b) FFC Meetings ..................... 80,000 Section 10.

Employment Ceilings.
The maximum number of 6 positions for each branch and agency of the National Government of 7 the Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year 2020 shall 8 be as follows: (1) Executive Branch ..................... 653 (2) Legislative Branch ................... (3) Judiciary Branch ..................... (4) Public Auditor ...................... (5) Agencies (a) National Oceanic Resource Management Authority ....................... (b) FSM Banking Board ................ (c) FSM Insurance Board ............. (d) National Postal Services ......... (6) Special Programs (a) National Election Office ......... 68 41 23 29 5 5 40 13 Section 11.
Reprogramming.

Reprogramming of funds into or 22 from the personnel budget line item shall not be permitted.

The 23 President, Speaker and Chief Justice may reprogram up to 10 24 percent to or from the funds appropriated in sections 2 (Operating 25 expenses of the Executive Branch), 3 (Operating expenses of the 22 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.
NO.

21-16 1 Legislative Branch), and 4 (Operating expenses of the National 2 Judicial Branch).

Reprogramming of funds within a department, 3 office or agency shall be effected by the head of such department, 4 office or agency by specifying in writing to the Secretary of the 5 Department of Finance and Administration of the FSM National 6 Government, the accounts for which funding is either increased or 7 decreased.
Reprogramming other than as specified herein is not 8 permitted, and more specifically, reprogramming into or out of any 9 line item contained in section 8 (Grants, Subsidies and 10 Contributions) or section 9 (Investment: Capital and Human 11 Resources) is not permitted.

The President shall report to 12 Congress within one month of the last day of each financial 13 quarter all amounts reprogrammed inter or intra a department, 14 office or agency.

15 Section 12.
Section 12.

Allotment and management of funds and lapse dates.

(1) General provisions.

(a) All funds appropriated by this act shall be allotted, managed, administered and accounted for in accordance with applicable law, including, but not limited to, the Financial Management Act of 1979.
(b) The allottees shall be responsible for ensuring that these funds, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are used solely for the purposes specified in this act, and that no obligations are incurred in excess 23 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.

21-16 of the sums appropriated.

(2) Allottees.
The allottees of the funds appropriated by this act are as follows: (a) Section 2 - the allottee of these funds shall be the President of the Federated States of Micronesia; (b) Section 3 - the allottee of these funds shall be the Speaker of the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia; (c) Section 4 – the allottee of these funds shall be the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Federated States of Micronesia; (d) Section 5 – the allottee of these funds shall be the Public Auditor of the Federated States of Micronesia; (e) Sections 6 through 9 - the allottee of these funds shall be the President of the Federated States of Micronesia; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that for the following subsections of sections 8 through 9 of this act: (i) Section 8, subsection (11)(a) through (m) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Speaker of the FSM Congress; (ii) Section 8, subsection (12)(c) through (f) - the allottee of these funds shall be the Chief Justice of the respective State Supreme Court; and (ii) Section 9 (1)(a) through (d) – the 24 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.
NO.

21-16 allottee of these funds shall be the President of the COM- FSM.

(3) Lapse date.

The authority of the allottees to obligate funds appropriated by this act shall lapse as of September 30, 2020; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the funds appropriated under section 9 of this act shall not lapse.

Section 13.

This act shall become law upon approval by the 8 President of the Federated States of Micronesia or upon its 9 becoming law without such approval.
10 11 Date: 6/13/19 Introduced by: /s/ Florencio S. Harper Florencio S. Harper (by request) 25 of 25