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TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA FOURTH REGULAR SESSION, 2022 C.B.

NO.
NO.

22-163 A BILL FOR AN ACT To appropriate $70,802,446 from the General Fund of the Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2023, 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 and capital and human resources development, and for 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 $70,802,446, from the General Fund of the 3 Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending 4 September 30, 2023, 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 and Human Resources Development.
The 8 National Government’s share of the Amended Compact funds has been 9 reduced to zero; EXCEPT THAT; the National Government will retain 10 10 percent of the Supplemental Education Grant funds as is 11 reflected in the budget for the Department of Education and for 12 Capital and Human Resources Development.

The sum appropriated 13 herein shall be apportioned as follows: 14 Section 2.

Operating expenses of the Executive Branch.


The 15 sum of $27,580,642, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is 16 hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the Federated States 17 of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2023, for CBL 22-170/PC #22-288 C.B.

NO.

22-163 1 the purpose of funding the operations of the Executive Branch of 2 the National Government during the fiscal year.
Of the total 3 amount of funds appropriated herein, $366,570 shall be deemed to 4 come from funds available under the Supplemental Education Grant.

5 The sum appropriated by this section shall be apportioned as 6 follows: 7 (1) Office of the President.

8 The sum of $2,202,599, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 9 the operations of the Office of the President during the fiscal 10 year 2023.
The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 11 follows: Personnel .................................... $ 839,993 Travel ........................................ 324,606 Contractual Services ........................... 870,000 OCE ................................ ........... 160,000 Fixed Assets ...................... ............ 8,000 (2) Department of Foreign Affairs.
18 The sum of $6,333,790, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 19 for the operations of the Department of Foreign Affairs during 20 the fiscal year 2023.

The sum appropriated herein shall be 21 apportioned as follows: 22 23 24 25 Personnel ................................. ... $ 2,279,038 Travel ..................................... .. 125,981 Contractual Services........................ .. 3,357,081 OCE ........................................ .. 508,740 2 of 26 C.B.

NO.
NO.

22-163 1 2 Fixed Assets ............................... .

$ 62,950 (3) Department of Finance and Administration.

3 The sum of $3,355,158, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 4 the operations of the Department of Finance and Administration during 5 the fiscal year 2023.
The sum appropriated herein shall be 6 apportioned as follows: Personnel ............................. ....... $ 2,542,279 Travel ................................ ........ 139,279 Contractual Services.................. ........ .

307,300 OCE ................................ ........ ... 361,300 Fixed Assets ........................ ........ .. 5,000 (4) Department of Resources and Development.
13 The sum of $1,610,697, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 14 the operations of the Department of Resources and Development 15 during the fiscal year 2023.
The sum appropriated herein shall be 16 apportioned as follows: Personnel ........................... ....... ..$ 1,077,363 Travel .......................... ........ ...... 116,135 Contractual Services.............. ........ ..... 193,200 OCE .............................. ........ ..... 219,999 Fixed Assets ................... ........ ....... 4,000 (5) Department of Transportation, Communications and 23 Infrastructure.
24 The sum of $3,313,695, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 25 the operations of the Department of Transportation, Communications 3 of 26 C.B.

NO.

22-163 1 & Infrastructure during the fiscal year 2023.
The sum 2 appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel ........................ ... .........$ 746,852 Travel ..................................... ... 114,800 Contractual Services...................... ... .. 2,305,943 OCE .................................... ... .... 116,100 Fixed Assets ........................... ... .... 30,000 (6) Department of Health and Social Affairs.
9 The sum of $1,199,057, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 10 the operations of the Department of Health and Social Affairs 11 during the fiscal year 2023.
The sum appropriated herein shall be 12 apportioned as follows: Personnel ............................. ... ....$ 828,875 Travel ................................. ... .... 44,744 Contractual Services.................... ... .... 127,282 OCE ................................... ... ..... 198,156 Fixed Assets ........................ ... ....... -0- (7) Department of Education.
19 The sum of $814,098 or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 20 the operations of the Department of Education during the fiscal 21 year 2023.

Of the total amount of funds appropriated herein, 22 $366,570 shall be deemed to come from funds available under the 23 Supplemental Education Grant.

The sum appropriated herein shall 24 be apportioned as follows: 25 Personnel .......................... .... ....... 468,143 4 of 26 C.B.

NO.

22-163 Travel ............................. .
........ $ 137,578 Contractual Services............... ... ......... 156,226 OCE .................................. ... ...... 52,151 Fixed Assets .......................... ... ..... -0- (8) Department of Justice.

6 The sum of $6,124,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 7 the operations of the Department of Justice during the fiscal year 8 2023.
The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 9 follows: Personnel ............................. ... ....$ 4,291,294 Travel .................................. ... ... 158,322 Contractual Services................ ... ........ 821,042 OCE .................................... ... .... 844,342 Fixed Assets ............................. ... .. 9,000 (9) Office of the Public Defender.
16 The sum of $1,246,227, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 17 the operations of the Office of the Public Defender during the 18 fiscal year 2023.

The sum appropriated herein shall be 19 apportioned as follows: Personnel ............................. ... ....$ 971,457 Travel ................................ ... ..... 38,476 Contractual Services....................... ... .
149,394 OCE ........................................ ... 86,900 Fixed Assets ............................... .. -0- (10) Department of Climate Change, Environment and Emergency 5 of 26 C.B.

NO.

22-163 1 Management.

2 The sum of $740,062, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 3 the operations of the Department of Climate Change, Environment 4 and Emergency Management during the fiscal year 2023.
The sum 5 appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel ................................ ... .$ 586,899 Travel ..................................... ... 66,435 Contractual Services....................... ... .

31,500 OCE ....................................... ... .

52,228 Fixed Assets .............................. ... .

3,000 (11) Office of National Archives, Culture and Historic Preservation.
13 The sum of $260,857, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 14 the operations of the Office of National Archives, Culture and 15 Historic Preservation during the fiscal year 2023.

The sum 16 appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel .................................. .. $ 215,538 Travel .................................... .. .. 9,605 Contractual Services....................... .. .. 15,425 OCE ........................................ .. .
20,289 Fixed Assets................................. .. -0- (12) Office of the Veterans Affairs.

23 The sum of $158,641, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 24 the operations of the Office of the Veterans Affairs during the 25 fiscal year 2023.

The sum appropriated herein shall be 6 of 26 C.B.

NO.
NO.

22-163 1 apportioned as follows: Personnel .............................. ... ...$ 79,240 Travel ........................................ 11,401 Contractual Services........................ ... 50,000 OCE ..................................... ... ... 18,000 Fixed Assets............................ ... .... -0- (13) Office of Personnel.

8 The sum of $221,761, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 9 the operations of the Office of Personnel during the fiscal year 10 2023.
The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 11 follows: Personnel ................................ ... .$ 185,161 Travel ................................... ... .. 23,400 Contractual Services..................... ... ... 1,700 OCE .................................... ... .... 11,500 Fixed Assets............................ ... .... -0- Section 3.

Operating Expenses of the Legislative 18 Branch.


The sum of $8,281,366, or so much thereof as may be 19 necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the 20 Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending 21 September 30, 2023, for the operations of the Legislative Branch 22 of the National Government during fiscal year 2023.

The sum 23 appropriated by this section shall be apportioned as follows: 24 (1) Speaker and Members.
25 The sum of $3,750,181, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 7 of 26 C.B.

NO.

22-163 1 the operations of the Office of the Speaker and Members of the 2 Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia during fiscal year 3 2023.

The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 4 follows: Personnel ............................... ... ..$ 840,650 Travel .................................... ... .
244,531 Contractual Services..................... ... ... 2,665,000 OCE ..................................... ... ...

Fixed Assets ............................ ... ... -0- -0- 10 (2) Staff Office.

11 $2,841,185, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the 12 operations of the Congress staff offices during fiscal year 13 2023.
The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 14 follows: Personnel ................................ ... .$ 1,613,185 Travel.............................. ... ........ 57,000 Contractual Services................. ... ....... 852,000 OCE......................................... ... 319,000 Fixed Assets............................. ... ... -0- (3) Congress Delegation Offices.
21 $1,690,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the 22 operations of the Congress delegation offices during the fiscal 23 year 2023.

The sum appropriated is apportioned as follows: 24 25 (i) Kosrae Delegation Office ............ $ 240,000 (ii) Pohnpei Delegation Office ............ 480,000 8 of 26 C.B.

NO.

22-163 1 2 3 (iii) Chuuk Delegation Office.

............ $ 720,000 (iv) Yap Delegation Office ................ 250,000 Section 4.

Operating Expenses of the National Judicial 4 Branch.
The sum of $2,359,266, or so much thereof as may be 5 necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the 6 Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending 7 September 30, 2023, for the operations of the Judicial Branch of 8 the National Government during the fiscal year 2023.
The sum 9 appropriated by this section shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel.................................. ... $ 1,343,038 Travel.................................... ... .. 185,978 Contractual Services....................... ... .

478,200 OCE......................................... .. 248,050 Fixed Assets................................ .. 104,000 Section 5.

Operating Expenses of the National Public 16 Auditor.
The sum of $1,111,272, or so much thereof as may be 17 necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the 18 Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending 19 September 30, 2023, for the operations of the National Office of 20 the Public Auditor and for the National Public Auditor’s Chuuk 21 Office.
The sum appropriated by this section shall be apportioned 22 as follows: 23 24 25 Personnel ................................ ... .$ 835,322 Travel...................................... .. 62,550 Contractual Services........................ ... 126,000 9 of 26 C.B.

NO.

22-163 1 2 3 OCE......................................... .

$ 67,400 Fixed Assets................................ .. 20,000 Section 6.

Operating Expenses of Agencies, Boards, 4 Authorities, and Commissions of the National Government.
5 The sum of $3,146,204, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is 6 hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the Federated States 7 of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2023, for 8 the operations of the following boards, commissions and agencies 9 during the fiscal year 2023.

The sum appropriated by this section 10 shall be apportioned as follows: 11 (1) National Oceanic Resource Management Authority 12 (NORMA).
13 The sum of $1,219,159, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 14 the operations of NORMA for the fiscal year 2023.
The sum 15 appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel ................................. ... $ 820,685 Travel...................................... .. 111,363 Contractual Services........................ .. 200,741 OCE......................................... .. 86,370 Fixed Assets................................ .. -0- (2) Board of Regents (COM-FSM).
22 The sum of $120,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 23 the operations of the Board of Regents, COM-FSM during the fiscal 24 year 2023.

The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 25 follows: 10 of 26 C.B.

NO.

22-163 Personnel.............................. ... ....$ Travel................................... ... ...
Contractual Services..................... ... ... -0- -0- -0- OCE..................................... ... .... 120,000 Fixed Assets............................. ... ... -0- (3) FSM Banking Board.

7 The sum of $205,417, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 8 the operations of FSM Banking Board during the fiscal year 2023.
9 The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel .............................. ... ...$ 116,303 Travel................................. ... ..... 22,876 Contractual Services...................... ... .. 41,128 OCE..................................... ... .... 25,110 Fixed Assets............................. ... ... -0- (4) FSM Insurance Board.
16 The sum of $567,814, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 17 the operations of FSM Insurance Board during the fiscal year 2023.
18 The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel .................................... $ 165,527 Travel ......................................... 21,308 Contractual Services ........................... 347,175 OCE ............................................ 32,004 Fixed Assets ................................... 1,800 (5) FSM Postal Services.

25 The sum of $1,033,814, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 11 of 26 C.B.

NO.
NO.

22-163 1 the operations of the National Postal Services during the fiscal 2 year 2023.

The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 3 follows: Personnel ..................................... $ 609,752 Travel ......................................... 19,993 Contractual Services ........................... 187,119 OCE ............................................ 175,950 Fixed Assets ................................... 41,000 Section 7.

Special Programs.
Special Programs.

The sum of $522,564, or so 10 much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated from the 11 General Fund of the Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal 12 year ending September 30, 2023, for the following special programs 13 during fiscal year 2023.

The sum appropriated by this section 14 shall be apportioned as follows: 15 (1) National Election Office.
16 The sum of $522,564, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 17 the operations of National Election Office during the fiscal year 18 2023.

The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 19 follows: Personnel ..................................... $ 338,678 Travel ......................................... 6,215 Contractual Services.
.......................... 64,708 OCE ............................................ 82,963 Fixed Assets ................................... 30,000 Section 8.

Grants, Subsidies and Contributions.

The sum of 12 of 26 C.B.

NO.

22-163 1 $16,870,608, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby 2 appropriated from the General Fund of the Federated States of 3 Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2023, for the 4 following grants, subsidies and contributions during fiscal year 5 2023.
The sum appropriated by this section shall be apportioned 6 as follows: 7 8 (1) Office of the President.

(a) Asia Pacific Inst.


9 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) Joint Committee on Compact Review 15 and Planning (JCRP) .................................. 1,600,573 16 17 18 19 (g) Presidential Inauguration ............ 50,000 (2) Department of Foreign Affairs.

(a) Pacific Is.
(a) Pacific Is.

Forum Secretariat ........ 57,000 (b) Secretariat of the Pacific 20 Community (SPC) ..................................... 65,000 21 (c) UN Economic and Social Commission 22 for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) ..................... 5,000 23 24 25 (d) UN Membership Fee ................... 50,000 (e) East West Center ..................... 5,000 (f) Cotonou Membership Fee (ACP) ......... 17,000 13 of 26 C.B.

NO.
NO.

22-163 (g) SPC Office Space .................... $ 47,070 (h) SIS Program .......................... 10,000 (i) IOM Membership Fee ................... 600 (j) SPC Host Grant ....................... 20,000 (k) UN Multi-Country interim office lease 30,960 (3) Department of Finance and Administration.
(a) CTA-OCO Membership Fee ............... 10,000 (b) Maintenance Fee for Financial 9 Management System .................................... 55,000 10 11 (c) PITTA – CTA .......................... 5,000 (d) ADB, IMF & Budget Finance Policy 12 Consultations ........................................ 25,000 13 (e) Macro Economist Advisor/Grant Writer 14 and Negotiator...................................... 200,000 (f) Global Forum Membership Fees ......... 26,000 (g) PFTAC Membership Fees ................ 20,000 (h) CTA Conference ....................... 35,000 (i) Tax Compliance ....................... 25,000 (j) FSM Trust Fund Board ................. 50,000 (k) Finance Conference ................... 75,000 (l) FSM Trust Fund Independent Evaluation 200,000 (4) Department of Resources and Development.
(a) Pacific Island Development Program ... 15,000 (b) Pacific Asian Travel Assoc (PATA) .... 6,000 (c) United Nations Development Program ... 30,000 14 of 26 C.B.

NO.
22-163 1 2 (d) FAO ................................. $ 6,800 (e) Western Forestry Leadership 3 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) Convention on Biological Diversity ... 1,000 (m) International Fund for Agriculture 12 Development .......................................... 500 13 14 15 (n) UNIDO ................................ 1,000 (o) Micronesian Island Forum Membership Fee 15,000 (p) Micronesia Association for 16 Sustainable Aquaculture .............................. 50,000 17 18 19 (q) Micronesia Island Forum .............. 15,000 (r) Micronesia Challenges Endowment Fund .
100,000 (s) International Coconut Community 20 (Annual Fees & Prior Years) .......................... 18,000 (5) Department of Health and Social Affairs.

(a) UN Fund for Population Activity (UNFPA) 3,000 (b) World Health Organization ........... 4,790 (c) PIHOA ............................... 20,000 (d) Association of Territorial Health 15 of 26 C.B.

NO.
NO.

22-163 1 Org (ASTHO) ......................................... $ 4,000 2 (e) National Board of Nursing & Medical 3 Licensing .......................................... 60,000 (f) FSM Red Cross ....................... 70,000 (g) UNICEF (Vaccine & TB Drugs) ......... 50,000 (h) UN – FSM Women (CEDAW) .............. (i) Drug Quality Testing ................ 1,000 3,000 (6) Department of Education.

(a) Aid for Non-Public School.
........... 1,000,000 (b) Financial Assistance/FSM Students CMI 40,000 (c) Financial Assistance/FSM Students PCC 100,000 (d) National Scholarship Fund ............ 3,000,000 (e) National Close-Up Local Program ...... 75,000 (f) National Merit Scholarship ........... 275,000 (g) Aid to Students in Japan ............. 100,000 (h) Caroline College & Pastoral Institute 17 (CCPI) ............................................... (i) Faithwalk Christian College .......... -0- -0- (j) Aid for FSM Students in China ........ 50,000 (k) Aid for FSM Students in Fiji ......... 35,000 (7) Department of Transportation, Communications 22 & Infrastructure.
23 24 (a) Asia Pacific Telecommunity ........... 6,075 (b) International Telecommunications 25 Union (ITU) .......................................... 25,867 16 of 26 18 19 20 21 C.B.

NO.

22-163 1 (c) International Civil Aviation Org.


2 (ICAO) .............................................. $ 45,075 3 4 5 (d) FSM Capital Energy (Utilities) ....... 600,000 (e) Micronesian Shipping Commission ...... 25,000 (f) Fueling & Provisions of Caroline 6 Voyager and Navigator and Nat’l vessels .............. 1,345,830 7 (g) FSM National Gov’t Computer Network 8 Bandwidth contract ................................... 181,920 (8) Department of Justice.
(a) Kosrae JLEA .......................... 100,000 (b) Pohnpei JLEA ......................... 225,000 (c) Chuuk JLEA ........................... 275,000 (d) Yap JLEA ............................. 100,000 (e) Police Academy ....................... 200,000 (f) DOJ Fuel Subsidy ..................... 550,000 (g) WIPO including past arrears .......... 18,422 (h) INTERPOL Membership Activities ....... 15,000 (i) Ammunition for side arms & long rifles 25,000 (j) Organization for the Prohibition of 20 Chemical Weapons (OPCW) including arrears ............ 7,962 21 (k) Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 22 Organization (CTBT) including arrears ................ 13,708 23 24 25 (9) Department of DECCEM (a) UNEP ................................. (b) UN Framework Convention (UNFCC) ...... 810 325 17 of 26 C.B.
NO.
22-163 1 (c) UN Convention to Combat 2 Desertification .................................... $ 195 3 (d) Secretariat of the Pacific 4 Region Environment Program (SPREP membership) ........ 10,768 (e) Waigani Convention ................... (f) SPREP Noumea Convention .............. 1,190 1,764 (g) Earth Day Activities ................. 15,000 (h) 10th Environment Conference .......... 20,000 (i) Basel Convention ..................... (j) Kyoto Protocol ....................... 272 484 (k) WMO Membership ....................... 15,050 (l) Disaster Assistance Emergency Fund ... 200,000 (m) Stockholm Convention Center .......... 7,528 (n) Annual Micronesia Clean Up Day ....... 45,000 (10) Office of NACHP.
(a) UNESCO membership fee ................ 4,000 (b) NCSHPO ............................... 2,760 (c) PARBICA .............................. (d) PIALA ................................ (e) WHC .................................. (f) Library fee .......................... 100 100 54 50 (11) Congress of FSM (a) Staff Upgrade ........................ 25,000 (b) IPU Annual dues ...................... 12,500 (c) COFA Alliance Nat’l Network .......... 25,000 18 of 26 C.B.

NO.
NO.

22-163 1 (d) Compact of Free Association 2 Historical Project .................................. $ 25,000 3 (12) Resources (Other Grants, Subsidies & 4 Contributions) (a) COM Board Meeting .................... 5,000 (b) COM Treaty Obligations ............... 25,000 (c) FSM Social Security .................. 1,000,000 (d) Kosrae Judiciary Subsidy ............. 50,000 (e) Pohnpei Judiciary Subsidy.
........... 70,000 (f) Chuuk Judiciary Subsidy.. ............ 120,000 (g) Yap Judiciary Subsidy ................ 50,000 (h) National Law Day ..................... 100,000 (i) Micronesian Legal Services Corporation 250,000 (j) NORMA-Forum Fisheries Agency ......... 63,000 (k) NORMA-WCPFC Membership fee ........... 434,201 (l) PNA Membership Fee ................... 10,000 (m) Independence Day Activities .......... 50,000 (n) MLFC Loan Payment .................... 260,000 (o) Single Audit fees and cost ........... 460,000 (p) Staff housing ........................ 750,000 (q) Recruitment & Repatriation ........... 223,218 (r) Caroline Air Subsidy for insurance 23 fuel, and other purposes ............................. 200,000 24 25 (s) President’s Day ...................... 75,000 (t) General Election ..................... 501,907 19 of 26 C.B.
NO.

22-163 1 Section 9.

Capital and Human Resources Development.

2 The sum of $10,930,524, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is 3 hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the Federated States 4 of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2023, for 5 the following capital improvements, development programs, projects 6 and human resources development.
Of the total amount of funds 7 appropriated herein, $1,000,000 shall be deemed to come from funds 8 available under the Compact Education Sector Grant and $1,246,022 9 shall be deemed to come from funds available under Supplemental 10 Education Grant.

The sum appropriated by this section shall be 11 apportioned as follows: (1) College of Micronesia – FSM.
(a) COM-FSM – operation ................. $ 4,000,000 (b) Fisheries Maritime Institute ......... 965,735 (c) Supplemental Education Grant .......... 689,948 (d) COM-FSM Endowment Fund ................ 285,000 (2) Department of Finance & Administration.
(a) FSM Warehouse lease & maintenance .... 40,000 (b) PCD Awareness & Training ............. 35,000 (c) Support to municipal gov’t financial 21 management improvement ............................... 50,000 22 23 24 (d) Tax Reform Commission ................ 100,000 (3) Department of Resources & Development.

(a) R&D State and National leadership 25 conference (SNLC) ..................................... 150,000 20 of 26 C.B.

NO.
22-163 1 2 (b) Domestic Tourism ..................... $ 250,000 (4) Department of Transportation, Communications 3 and Infrastructure 4 (a) Operation and drydocking of Caroline 5 Voyager & Navigator .................................. 1,000,000 6 (b) FSM National Government Facility 7 Improvement and Renovations ......................... 115,685 8 9 (5) Department of Justice (a) Anti-human trafficking enforcement, 10 campaign and investigation ........................... -0- (b) Victims Shelter & Services ........... 125,000 (c) Patrol Boat maintenance .............. 200,000 (d) HT Annual conference ................. 50,000 (e) Satellite phone & billing ............ 10,000 (f) Cyber security acquisition of 16 Intelligence Infrastructure and hardware ............. 673,000 17 18 19 (6) DECCEM.
(a) National & State Table Top Exercise .. 30,000 (b) Outer island trip assessment on 20 climate change & Risk Management ..................... 80,000 21 (c) National Joint 5th Platform for 22 Environment and Risk Resilience ...................... 40,000 23 24 (d) International Disaster Day ........... 12,000 (e) Grant writer to access environment and 25 climate change funds ................................. 150,000 21 of 26 C.B.

NO.

22-163 1 2 (7) National Election.
(a) Voter ID Card & New Voter 3 Registration Project ................................ $ 50,000 (8) Department of Health and Social Affairs (a) Medical Specialist Team .............. 120,000 (c) MOE – BHWP Med ....................... 22,200 (d) Electronic Health Record System ...... 35,000 (e) Rheumatic Heart Program .............. -0- (f) Youth in Sports ...................... 50,000 (9) Department of Education (a) NDOE Year 3 Project (SEG) ............ 556,074 (b) School Accreditation ................. -0- (c) Teacher Certification Project ........ 460,009 (d) CTE Teacher Training on Policies 15 Curriculum & Standard ................................ 56,910 16 (e) Vernacular Language Arts (VLA) 17 curriculum standards and benchmarks training ......... 75,170 18 (f) Assessment & Research Project 19 to revive NMCT ..................................... -0- 20 21 22 23 (10) NORMA (a) Commemoration of World Tuna Day – 2022 -0- (b) Hosting WCPFC, TTC & SC .............. 10,000 (c) Internship for students in the 24 area of fisheries management ......................... 5,000 25 (d) T3 Monitoring ........................ 150,000 22 of 26 C.B.
NO.

22-163 1 2 3 (11) Other Capital & Human Resources Development (a) Donor Roundtable Meeting ............ $ 100,000 (b) Postal Services New facility and 4 Vehicle .............................................. 130,000 5 Section 10.

Employment Ceilings.
The maximum number of 6 positions for each branch and agency of the National 7 Government of the Federated States of Micronesia for fiscal year 8 2023 shall be as follows: (1) Executive Branch ......................... 715 15 Management Authority ................................ (2) Legislative Branch ....................... (3) Judiciary Branch ......................... (4) Public Auditor ........................... (5) Agencies (a) National Oceanic Resource (b) FSM Banking Board .................... (c) FSM Insurance Board ................. (d) National Postal Services ............. (6) Special Programs (a) National Election Office ............. 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 23 of 26 69 41 25 29 4 6 41 14 C.B.

NO.

22-163 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.
15 Section 12.

Allotment and management of funds and lapse 16 dates.

17 18 (1) General provisions.

(a) All funds appropriated by this act shall be 19 allotted, managed, administered and accounted for in accordance 20 with applicable law, including, but not limited to, the Financial 21 Management Act of 1979.
22 (b) The allottees shall be responsible for ensuring 23 that these funds, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are used 24 solely for the purposes specified in this act, and that no 25 obligations are incurred in excess of the sums appropriated.

24 of 26 C.B.

NO.

22-163 1 (2) Allottees.
The allottees of the funds appropriated by 2 this act are as follows: 3 (a) Section 2 - the allottee of these funds shall be 4 the President of the Federated States of Micronesia; 5 (b) Section 3 - the allottee of these funds shall be 6 the Speaker of the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia; 7 (c) Section 4 – the allottee of these funds shall be 8 the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Federated States of 9 Micronesia; 10 (d) Section 5 – the allottee of these funds shall be 11 the Public Auditor of the Federated States of Micronesia; 12 (e) Sections 6 through 9 - the allottee of these 13 funds shall be the President of the Federated States of 14 Micronesia; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that for the following subsections 15 of sections 8 through 9 of this act: 16 (i) Section 8, subsection (11)(a) through (c) – 17 the allottee of these funds is the Speaker of the FSM Congress; 18 (ii) Section 8, subsection (12)(d) through (g) - 19 the allottee of these funds shall be the Chief Justice of the 20 respective State Supreme Court; and 21 (ii) Section 9 (1)(a) through (d) – the allottee 22 of these funds is the President of COM-FSM.
23 (3) Lapse date.

The authority of the allottees to 24 obligate funds appropriated by this act shall lapse as of 25 September 30, 2023; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the authority to 25 of 26 C.B.

NO.

22-163 1 obligate funds appropriated under section 9 of this act shall not 2 lapse.

3 Section 13.

This act shall become law upon approval by the 4 President of the Federated States of Micronesia or upon its 5 becoming law without such approval.
6 7 Date: 4/7/22 Introduced by: /s/ Florencio S. Harper Florencio S. Harper (by request) 26 of 26