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TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA SIXTH SPECIAL SESSION, 2022 C.B.

NO.

22-265 A BILL FOR AN AN ACT To amend sections 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 12 of Public Law No.
22- 153, to appropriate $8,998,080 from the General Fund of the Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2023, to provide supplemental funding for the operations of the Executive and Legislative branches, National Public Auditor, and Agencies of the National Government; 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.
Section 1 of Public Law No.

22-153 is hereby 2 amended to read as follows: 3 “Section 1.

Purpose.
Purpose.

The purpose of this act is to 4 appropriate the sum of $[70,119,042] 79,117,122 from the General 5 Fund of the Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year 6 ending September 30, 2023, to provide supplemental funding for the 7 operations of the Executive and Legislative branches, National 8 Public Auditor, and Agencies of the National Government; Grants, 9 Subsidies, and Contributions; and Capital and Human Resources 10 Development.
The National Government’s share of the Amended 11 Compact funds has been reduced to zero; EXCEPT THAT; the National 12 Government will retain the Compact Sector Grant amount for COM-FSM 13 and 10 percent of the Supplemental Education Grant funds as is 14 reflected in the budget for the Department of Education.

The sum 15 appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows:” CBL 22-278 C.B.

NO.

22-265 1 Section 2.

Section 2 of Public Law No.

22-153 is hereby 2 amended to read as follows: 3 “Section 2.
Operating Expenses of the Executive Branch.

4 The sum of $[28,916,570] 30,533,293, or so much thereof as may 5 be necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of 6 the Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending 7 September 30, 2023, for the purpose of funding the operations of 8 the Executive Branch of the National Government during the 9 fiscal year 2023.

The sum appropriated by this section shall be 10 apportioned as follows: 11 (1) Office of the President.
12 The sum of $[2,104,793] 2,474,606, or so much thereof as may be 13 necessary, for the operations of the Office of the President 14 during the fiscal year 2023.
The sum appropriated herein shall be 15 apportioned as follows: Personnel ..................................$ 839,993 Travel .............................[226,800] 430,410 Contractual Services................[870,000] 1,020,000 OCE ............................... [160,000] 176,203 Fixed Assets ............................... 8,000 (2) Department of Foreign Affairs.
22 The sum of $[6,724,444] 6,845,139, or so much thereof as may be 23 necessary, for the operations of the Department of Foreign Affairs 24 during the fiscal year 2023.

The sum appropriated herein shall be 2 of 29 C.B.

NO.
NO.

22-265 1 apportioned as follows: Personnel .................................$ 2,239,803 Travel ........................... [198,219] 308,914 Contractual Services.............[3,661,628] 3,671,628 OCE ........................................ 531,344 Fixed Assets ............................... 93,450 (3) Department of Finance and Administration.
8 The sum of $[3,334,158] 3,489,106, or so much thereof as may be 9 necessary, for the operations of the Department of Finance and 10 Administration during the fiscal year 2023.
The sum appropriated 11 herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel ..................................$ 2,542,279 Travel .............................[139,279] 294,227 Contractual Services........................ 286,300 OCE ........................................ 361,300 Fixed Assets ............................... 5,000 (4) Department of Resources and Development.
18 The sum of $[1,598,654] 1,696,016, or so much thereof as may be 19 necessary, for the operations of the Department of Resources and 20 Development during the fiscal year 2023.

The sum appropriated 21 herein shall be apportioned as follows: 22 23 24 25 Personnel.................................. ... $ 1,054,781 Travel ...............................[116,035] 213,397 Contractual Services......................... .. 203,839 OCE ......................................... .. 219,999 3 of 29 C.B.

NO.
NO.

22-265 1 2 Fixed Assets ................................ .. 4,000 (5) Department of Transportation, Communications and 3 Infrastructure.

4 The sum of $[3,353,749] 3,459,230, or so much thereof as may be 5 necessary, for the operations of the Department of Transportation, 6 Communications and Infrastructure during the fiscal year 2023.
7 The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel .................................. $ 753,312 Travel ..............................[122,394] 227,875 Contractual Services......................... 2,306,943 OCE ......................................... 116,100 Fixed Assets ................................ 55,000 (6) Department of Health and Social Affairs.
14 The sum of $[1,170,996] 1,234,115, or so much thereof as may be 15 necessary, for the operations of the Department of Health and 16 Social Affairs during the fiscal year 2023.
The sum appropriated 17 herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel ..................................$ 800,814 Travel ..............................[44,744] 107,863 Contractual Services........................ 127,282 OCE ........................................ 198,156 Fixed Assets ............................... -0- (7) Department of Education.
24 The sum of $[934,559] 939,647, or so much thereof as may be 25 necessary, for the operations of the Department of Education 4 of 29 C.B.

NO.

22-265 1 during the fiscal year 2023.

Of the total amount of funds 2 appropriated herein, $356,573 shall be deemed to come from funds 3 available under the Supplemental Education Grant.
The sum 4 appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel .................................. $ 478,760 Travel ..............................[166,722] 171,810 Contractual Services......................... 221,229 OCE ......................................... 67,848 Fixed Assets ................................ -0- 10 (8) Department of Justice.
11 The sum of $[6,915,071] 7,404,928, or so much thereof as may be 12 necessary, for the operations of the Department of Justice during 13 the fiscal year 2023.
The sum appropriated herein shall be 14 apportioned as follows: Personnel ................................. $ 4,695,064 Travel .............................[219,886] 369,743 Contractual Services................[794,679] 994,579 OCE ............................... [887,442] 937,442 Fixed Assets .......................[318,000] 408,000 (9) Department of Environment, Climate Change and 21 Emergency Management.
22 The sum of $[870,062] 970,920, or so much thereof as may be 23 necessary, for the operations of the Department of Environment, 24 Climate Change and Emergency Management during the fiscal year 25 2023.

The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 5 of 29 C.B.

NO.
NO.

22-265 1 follows: Personnel .................................. $ 586,899 Travel ...............................[66,435] 167,293 Contractual Services......................... 131,500 OCE ......................................... 52,228 Fixed Assets ............................... .

33,000 (10) Office of the Public Defender.

8 The sum of $[1,288,295] 1,365,361, or so much thereof as may be 9 necessary, for the operations of the Office of the Public Defender 10 during the fiscal year 2023.
The sum appropriated herein shall be 11 apportioned as follows: Personnel .................................. $ 980,625 Travel ..............................[38,476] 115,542 Contractual Services......................... 140,394 OCE ......................................... 86,900 Fixed Assets ................................ 41,900 (11) Office of National Archives, Culture and Historic Preservation.
19 The sum of $[260,857] 280,423, or so much thereof as may be 20 necessary, for the operations of the Office of National Archives, 21 Culture and Historic Preservation during the fiscal year 2023.

22 The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: 23 24 25 Personnel .................................. .

$ 215,538 Travel ...............................[9,605] 29,171 Contractual Services......................... 15,425 6 of 29 C.B.

NO.
NO.

22-265 1 2 3 OCE .........................................$ 20,289 Fixed Assets ................................ -0- (12) Office of Veteran’s Affairs.

4 The sum of $158,641, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 5 the operations of the Office Veteran’s Affairs during the fiscal 6 year 2023.

The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 7 follows: Personnel .................................. .
$ 79,240 Travel ..................................... 11,401 Contractual Services........................ 50,000 OCE ........................................ .

18,000 Fixed Assets ............................... -0- (13) Office of Personnel.

14 The sum of $[202,291] 215,161, or so much thereof as may be 15 necessary, for the operations of the Office of Personnel during 16 the fiscal year 2023.
The sum appropriated herein shall be 17 apportioned as follows: Personnel .................................. .

$ 185,161 Travel ...............................[3,930] 16,800 Contractual Services........................ 1,700 OCE ........................................ 11,500 Fixed Assets ............................... -0- “ Section 3.

Section 3 of Public Law No.

22-153 is hereby 24 amended to read as follows: 25 “Section 3.

Operating Expenses of the Legislative 7 of 29 C.B.

NO.
NO.

22-265 1 Branch.

The sum of $[7,226,703] 9,480,413, or so much thereof as 2 may be necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of 3 the Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending 4 September 30, 2023, for the operations of the Legislative Branch 5 of the National Government during fiscal year 2023.

The sum 6 appropriated by this section shall be apportioned as follows: 7 (1) Speaker and Members.
8 The sum of $[3,574,781] 4,488,491, or so much thereof as may be 9 necessary, for the operations of the Office of the Speaker and 10 Members of the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia 11 during fiscal year 2023.
The sum appropriated herein shall be 12 apportioned as follows: Personnel .................................. $ 840,650 Travel ..............................[244,531] 858,241 Contractual Services, of which up to $[150,000] 200,000 may be used to assist Members and staff with current and prior year medical costs, and up to $20,000 may be used to pay for outstanding prior year obligations....[2,489,600] 2,789,600 OCE .........................................
Fixed Assets ................................ -0- -0- (2) Staff Offices.

23 The sum of $[3,151,922] 3,371,922, or so much thereof as may be 24 necessary, for the operations of the Congress staff offices during 25 fiscal year 2023.

The sum appropriated herein shall be 8 of 29 C.B.

NO.
NO.

22-265 1 apportioned as follows: Personnel .................................. $ 1,620,922 Travel..............................[100,000] 200,000 Contractual Services, of which up to $25,000 may be used to pay for outstanding prior year obligations.

........................ [852,000] 922,000 OCE, of which up to $20,000 may be used to pay for outstanding prior year obligations .. .... 319,000 Fixed Assets..........................[260,000] 310,000 10 (3) Congress Delegation Offices.
11 The sum of $[500,000] 1,620,000, or so much thereof as may be 12 necessary, for the operations of the Congress delegation offices 13 during the fiscal year 2023.

Of the amounts appropriated for 14 contractual services within each Delegation Office, up to a 15 maximum of $[25,000] 100,000 per Member, at the Delegation 16 Offices’ discretion, may be used for Representation including 17 prior years reimbursable expenses and other obligations.
Any 18 unexpended Representation funds shall lapse into the FSM Trust 19 Fund state sub-account of the respective state or states, which 20 had remaining unexpended Representation funds.

The sum 21 appropriated is apportioned as follows: 22 23 24 25 (a) Kosrae Delegation Office Travel .......................... $ -0- Contractual Services .....[50,000] 200,000 OCE ............. .

.. .

..[20,000] 30,000 9 of 29 C.B.

NO.
22-265 Fixed Assets ..................... $ -0- TOTAL ..................... [70,000] 230,000 (b) Pohnpei Delegation Office Travel ........................... 3,000 Contractual Services .... [100,000] 400,000 OCE ....................... [37,000] 57,000 Fixed Assets ...................... -0- TOTAL ................... [140,000] 460,000 (c) Chuuk Delegation Office Travel ........................... -0- Contractual Services ..... [160,000] 610,000 OCE ....................... [40,000] 70,000 Fixed Assets ...................... 10,000 TOTAL .................... [210,000] 690,000 (d) Yap Delegation Office Travel ........................... 13,000 Contractual Services ..... [45,000] 195,000 OCE ...................... [17,000] 27,000 Fixed Assets ...................... 5,000 TOTAL .................... [80,000] 240,000” Section 4.
Section 5 of Public Law No.

22-153 is hereby amended to read as follows: 23 “Section 5.

Operating Expenses of the National Public 24 Auditor.

The sum of $[1,056,485] 1,098,533, or so much thereof as 25 may be necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of 10 of 29 C.B.

NO.
NO.

22-265 1 the Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending 2 September 30, 2023, for the operations of the National Office of 3 the Public Auditor during the fiscal year 2023.
The sum 4 appropriated by this section shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel ..................................$ 780,535 Travel...............................[62,550] 104,598 Contractual Services........................ 126,000 OCE......................................... 67,400 Fixed Assets................................ 20,000” 10 Section 5.

Section 6 of Public Law No.

22-153 is hereby 11 amended to read as follows: 12 Section 6.
Operating Expenses of Agencies of the 13 National Government.

The sum of $[3,210,335] 3,363,546, or so 14 much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated from the 15 General Fund of the Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal 16 year ending September 30, 2023, for the operations of the 17 following boards, commissions and agencies during the fiscal year 18 2023.
The sum appropriated by this section shall be apportioned 19 as follows: 20 (1) National Oceanic Resource Management Authority 21 (NORMA).

22 The sum of $[1,249,159] 1,310,238, or so much thereof as may be 23 necessary, for the operations of NORMA for the fiscal year 2023.

24 The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: 25 Personnel .........................$[820,685] 835,380 11 of 29 C.B.

NO.
NO.

22-265 Travel............................$[111,363] 157,747 Contractual Services......................... 200,741 OCE.......................................... 86,370 Fixed Assets................................. 30,000 (2) Board of Regents (COM-FSM).

6 The sum of $120,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 7 the operations of the Board of Regents, COM-FSM during the fiscal 8 year 2023.
The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 9 follows: Personnel.....................................$ Travel........................................

Contractual Services.......................... -0- -0- -0- OCE........................................... 120,000 Fixed Assets.................................. -0- (3) FSM Banking Board.
16 The sum of $[205,417] 239,435, or so much thereof as may be 17 necessary, for the operations of FSM Banking Board during the 18 fiscal year 2023.

The sum appropriated herein shall be 19 apportioned as follows: Personnel ..................................$ 116,303 Travel...............................[22,876] 56,894 Contractual Services........................ OCE.........................................
Fixed Assets................................ 41,128 25,110 -0- (4) FSM Insurance Board.

12 of 29 C.B.

NO.

22-265 1 The sum of $[567,814] 598,126, or so much thereof as may be 2 necessary, for the operations of FSM Insurance Board during the 3 fiscal year 2023.
The sum appropriated herein shall be 4 apportioned as follows: Personnel ..................................$ 165,527 Travel...............................[21,308] 51,620 Contractual Services........................ 347,175 OCE......................................... 32,004 Fixed Assets................................ 1,800 10 (5) FSM Postal Services.
11 The sum of $[1,067,945] 1,095,747, or so much thereof as may be 12 necessary, for the operations of the National Postal Services 13 during the fiscal year 2023.
The sum appropriated herein shall be 14 apportioned as follows: Personnel...................................$ 641,448 Travel.............................. [19,993] 47,795 Contractual Services........................ 187,119 OCE......................................... 178,385 Fixed Assets................................ 41,000” Section 6.

Section 8 of Public Law No.

22-153 is hereby amended to 21 read as follows: 22 Section 8.

Grants, Subsidies and Contributions.


23 The sum of $[17,086,591] 18,635,161, or so much thereof as may be 24 necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the 25 Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending 13 of 29 C.B.

NO.

22-265 1 September 30, 2023, for the following grants, subsidies and 2 contributions during the fiscal year 2023.

The sum appropriated 3 by this section shall be apportioned as follows: 4 5 (1) Office of the President.
(a) Asia Pacific Institute for Broadcasting 6 Development (AIBD) .................................. $ 4,500 7 8 (b) Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union ...... 800 (c) Pacific Island News Association ...... 350 9 (d) Asia Pacific 10 Investment 250 11 (e) Former Presidents’ Allowance......... 12 50,000 13 (f) Joint Committee on Compact Review and 14 Planning (JCRP) .................................. 1,343,963 (g) Presidential Inauguration ............ 50,000 (2) Department of Foreign Affairs.
(a) Pacific Island Forum Secretariat ..... 57,000 (b) Secretariat of the Pacific Community .

65,000 (c) ESCAP ................................ 5,000 (d) UN Membership Fee.................... 50,000 (e) East-West Center ..................... 5,000 (f) ACP Cotonou Membership Fees .......... 17,000 (g) SPC Office Rental .................... 47,070 14 of 29 C.B.

NO.
NO.

22-265 1 2 3 (h) SIS Program.......................... 10,000 (i) IOM Membership Fee ................... 600 (j) SPC Host Grant ....................... 20,000 4 (K) UN Multi-Country Office Lease ........ 30,960 5 6 7 (3) Department of Finance and Administration (a) CTA-OCO Membership Fee .............. $ 10,000 (b) Maintenance Fee for Financial 8 Management Information System (FMIS).
................ 55,000 9 10 (c) PITTA – CTA .......................... 5,000 (d) ADB, IMF and Budget, Finance 11 Policy Consultations ................................. 25,000 (e) Macro Economist Advisor .............. 200,000 (f) Global Forum Membership Fee .......... 26,000 (g) PFTAC Membership Fee ................. 20,000 (h) CTA Conference ....................... 35,000 (i) Tax Compliance Initiative ............ 25,000 (j) FSM Trust Fund Board ................. 50,000 (j) Finance Conference ................... 75,000 (4) Department of Resources and Development.
(a) Pacific Islands Development 21 Program (PIDP) ..................................... 15,000 22 23 24 25 (b) Pacific Asian Travel Association (PATA) 6,000 (c) United Nations Development Program (UNDP) 30,000 (d) Food Agriculture Organization (FAO) .. 6,800 (e) Western Forestry Leadership Coalition 530 15 of 29 C.B.

NO.
22-265 (f) Matching to SPC Projects ............. 60,000 (g) Micronesian Challenge ................ 10,000 (h) Micronesian Cruise Association ....... 2,500 (i) South Pacific Tourism Organization ... 8,000 (j) IRENA .............................. $ 250 (k) Micronesia Trade Commission .......... 30,000 (l) Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) 1,000 (m) IFAD ................................. 500 (n) UNIDO Membership ..................... 1,000 10 (o) Micronesia Association of Sustainable 11 Agriculture......................................... 50,000 12 (p) Micronesia Island Forum ..... [15,000] 65,000 13 (q) Micronesia Challenge Endowment Fund.. 100,000 14 (r) International Coconut Community (annual 15 and prior years fees)............................... 18,000 (s) 2nd FSM Expo (Kosrae) ................ $100,000 (5) Department of Health and Social Affairs.
(a) UNFPA ................................ 3,000 (b) WHO .................................. 4,790 (c) PIHOA ............................... 20,000 (d) Association of Territorial Health ... 4,000 (e) Nursing and Medical Licensing ....... 60,000 (f) FSM Red Cross ....................... 70,000 (g) UNICEF (Vaccine & TB Drugs) ......... 50,000 25 (h) UN/FSM Women (CEDAW) ................ 1,000 16 of 29 C.B.

NO.

22-265 1 (i) Drug Quality Testing Project.


....... 3,000 (6) Department of Education.
(a) Aid to Non-Public Schools ........... 1,000,000 (b) Aid to CMI Students ................. 30,000 (c) Aid to PCC Students ................. $ 50,000 (d) National Scholarship ................. 3,000,000 (e) National Close-Up .................... 75,000 (f) Merit Scholarship .................... 275,000 (g) Aid to FSM Students in Japan ......... 100,000 (h) Aid to FSM Students in China ......... 50,000 (i) Aid to FSM Students in Fiji .......... 50,000 (j) Caroline College & Pastoral Institute.
200,000 (k) Faithwalk Christian College ......... .

200,000 (l) Xavier High School – Chuuk ........... 75,000 (m) Yap Catholic High School ............. 75,000 (7) Department of Transportation, Communications and Infrastructure.
(a) Asia Pacific Telecommunity .......... 6,075 (b) International Telecommunication Union 25,867 (c) ICAO ................................. 45,075 (d) FSM Capital Energy ......... [600,000] 705,145 (e) Micronesian Shipping Commission ...... 25,000 23 (f) Fuel and Provisions for Caroline 24 25 Voyager and Navigator ........................... 1,345,830 (g) FSM National Government Computer 17 of 29 C.B.

NO.

22-265 Network Bandwidth Contract ............. .
....... 181,920 (h) Arrears due to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), 2018 ......... ....... 20,000 (8) Department of Justice.
(a) States Joint Law Enforcement: Kosrae.$ 125,000 (b) States Joint Law Enforcement: Pohnpei 250,000 (c) States Joint Law Enforcement: Chuuk, of which $75,000 shall be used for Weno Municipal Police ........................................ 300,000 (d) States Joint Law Enforcement: Yap .... 125,000 (e) Police Academy ....................... 200,000 (f) Fuel Subsidy ......................... 550,000 (g) WIPO ................................. -0- (h) Interpol-Membership & Activities ..... 15,000 15 (i) Ammunitions for side arm & long rifles 25,000 (j) Organizations for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) ......................... 7,962 (k) Comprehensive Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty Organization (CTBT) ............................. 13,708 (l) Police fuel subsidy: Kosrae .......... 10,000 (m) Police fuel subsidy: Yap ............. 10,000 (9) Department of Environment, Climate Change and Emergency Management (a) UNEP ................................. 835 (b) UNFCCC ............................... 325 18 of 29 C.B.
NO.
22-265 (c) UNCCD ................................ 195 (d) SPREP Membership ..................... 10,768 (e) Waigani Convention ................... 1,190 (f) SPREP-Noumea Convention .............. 1,764 (g) Earth Day Activities ................. $ 15,000 (h) 7th Bi-Annual Environment Conference .. 20,000 (i) Basel Convention ..................... 197 (j) Kyoto Protocol ....................... 484 (k) WMO Membership ....................... 15,000 10 (l) Disaster Assistance Emergency 11 Relief Fund (DAEF)- Matching ......................... 200,000 12 (m) Disaster Relief Fund ................. 100,000 13 (n) Stockholm Convention Membership ...... 550 14 (o) COP27 Travel ......................... 100,000 (10) Office of National Archives, Culture and Historic Preservation (a) UNESCO ............................... 4,000 (b) NCSHPO ............................... 2,760 (c) PARBICA .............................. (d) PIALA ................................ (e) WHC .................................. 100 100 54 (f) Library Fee .......................... 50 (11) Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia (a) Staff Upgrade ........................ 25,000 (b) IPU Annual Dues ...................... 12,500 19 of 29 C.B.
NO.

22-265 (c) COFA Alliance National Network (CANN).

25,000 (d) Compact Historical Project ........... 25,000 (12) Other Grants, Subsidies and Contributions.

(a) COM board meeting .................. .
5,000 (b) COM-FSM Treaty Obligation ........... $ 25,000 (c) FSM Social Security Administration .. 1,000,000 (d) State Judiciaries: Kosrae ........... 75,000 (e) State Judiciaries: Pohnpei ........... 100,000 (f) State Judiciaries: Chuuk ............. 150,000 (g) State Judiciaries: Yap ............... 75,000 (h) National Law Day ..................... 100,000 (i) Micronesian Legal Services Corporation (MLSC) .............................. 250,000 (j) NORMA – Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) .. 63,000 (k) NORMA – WCPFC Tuna Commission Membership Fee.......... .................................. 434,201 17 (l) PNA Membership Fee ................... 10,000 (m) Independence Day Activities .......... 50,000 (n) MLFC Loan Payment .................... 260,000 (o) Single Audit Fee .................... 460,000 (p) Staff Housing, including 100,000 for the Office of Personnel .............. [750,000] 850,000 (q) Recruitment and Repatriation ......... 223,218 (r) Caroline Air Subsidy for insurance, operation and fuel.... .................... [-0-] 255,000 20 of 29 C.B.
NO.
22-265 (s) President’s Day ...................... -0- (t) General Election (2023) ..... [300,000] 400,000 (u) Legal and Advocacy Services in Washington D.C. (A&P) .......... ...... [300,000] 1,000,000 (v) DOFA – Prior year obligations ...... $ 7,000 (w) Legal fees owed to INS/Bargain Center 5,390 (x) Legal fees owed to Genesis .......... 5,244 (y) Hosting of 2023 Oceania Customs Organization’s Annual conference .............. 47,000 (z) National election prior year obligation 5,760 (aa) Supplement for MCO Office space .... 48,031” Section 7.
Section 9 of Public Law No.

22-153 is hereby 13 amended to read as follows: 14 Section 9.

Capital and Human Resources Development.

15 The sum of $9,647,070 13,030,888 or so much thereof as may be 16 necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the 17 Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending 18 September 30, 2023, for the following capital improvements, 19 development programs, and projects and human resources 20 development.
Of the total amount of funds appropriated herein, 21 $1,256,019 shall be deemed to come from funds available under the 22 Supplemental Education Grant and $1,000,000 shall be deemed to 23 come from funds available under the Compact Sector Grants.

The 24 sum appropriated by this section shall be apportioned as follows: 25 (1) College of Micronesia – FSM.

21 of 29 C.B.

NO.
22-265 1 (a) College of Micronesia–FSM ..... $ 4,000,000 2 (b) FSM Fisheries and Maritime Institute (FMI) .............................. 965,735 (c) College of Micronesia-FSM SEG Funding ................................. $ 689,948 (d) COM-FSM Endowment Fund ........ 500,000 (e) COM-Public Health initiative .. 488,798 (2) Department of Foreign Affairs (a) Acting Pay: UN Mission ......... 98,394 (b) Acting Pay: Fiji ............... 19,395 (c) Acting Pay: D.C. Embassy ....... 16,764 (d) Acting Pay: Guam .............. 19,000 (3) Department of Finance and Administration (a) FSM Warehouse Lease and Maintenance -0- (b) PCD Awareness and Training ...... 35,000 (c) Support to Municipal Government Financial Management Improvement ............. 50,000 (d) Tax Reform Commission ........... 100,000 (e) Housing for local staff assigned to financial organizations for short term training (IMF, WB, ADB, GCF) ......................... 72,000 (4) Department of Resources and Development (a) R&D SNLC ......................... 75,000 (b) FSM Chamber of Commerce .......... 50,000 (c) Chamber of Commerce: Kosrae ...... 20,000 22 of 29 C.B.
NO.
22-265 (d) Chamber of Commerce: Pohnpei ..... 30,000 (e) Chamber of Commerce: Chuuk ....... 30,000 (f) Chamber of Commerce: Yap ......... 20,000 (g) Conservation Society: Kosrae ..... 25,000 (h) Conservation Society: Pohnpei ... $ 40,000 (i) Conservation Society: Chuuk ...... 40,000 (j) Conservation Society: Yap ........ 25,000 (5) Department of Transportation, Communications and Infrastructure (a) Operation and Dry-Docking of Caroline Voyager and Navigator ............. -0- (b) FSM National Government Facility Improvements and Renovations ................. 115,685 (c) FSM National Government Computer Network ..................................... 100,000 (6) Department of Justice (a) Anti-Human Trafficking Enforcement, Campaign, and Investigation ................... 125,000 (b) Victim Shelter and Services ..... 125,000 (c) Boat Maintenance ................ 200,000 (d) DOJ Satellite Phone Billing ..... 10,000 (7) Department of Environment, Climate Change and Emergency Management (a) National & State Table Top Exercise 30,000 (b) Outer Island Trip Assessment – 23 of 29 C.B.
NO.
22-265 Climate Change & Disaster Risk Management .... 80,000 (c) National Joint Platform for Environment & Risk Resilience ................ 40,000 (d) International Day for Disaster Reduction ................................... $ 12,000 (e) Disaster Risk Management Conference...... ............................. 40,000 (8) National Election Commission Office ..... (a) Voter ID Card and New Voter Registration Project ......................... 50,000 (9) Department of Health and Social Affairs (a) Medical Specialist Team .......... 120,000 (b) MOE-BHWP Med ..................... 22,200 (c) Electronic Record System ......... 35,000 (d) Youth in Sports ................. 50,000 (e) Hispathology and diagnostic improvement ................................. 16,000 (f) Implementation, FSM Pharmaceutical Act ..................................... 24,010 (g) Competent Authority, compliance process for fisheries exportation ........... 115,990 (h) medical professional recruitment 33,500 (10) Department of Education (a) NDOE Year 3 Project (SEG) ........ 556,074 (b) School Accreditation ............. -0- 24 of 29 C.B.
NO.
22-265 1 2 3 4 (c) Teacher Certification Project .... -0- (d) Vernacular Language Arts (VLA) Curriculum Standards and Benchmarks Training .. 75,170 (e) CTE Teacher Training ............. 56,910 5 (11) NORMA (a) Hosting WPCFC, TTC, & SC ........ $ 10,000 (b) Internship for students in the area of fisheries management .................. 5,000 (c) T3 Monitoring .................... 150,000 (d) Commemorate World Tuna Day ...... 70,000 (12) Other Capital and Human Resources Development (a) Donor Roundtable ................ 50,000 (b) Chuuk State Supreme Court parking lot fencing..... ............................. 200,000 (c) National Voter Register........... 64,000 (d) TC&I Utwe Water project settlement 260,000 (e) Diplomatic Mission Geneva ........ 484,318 (f) FSM ConCon Public Education & Awareness.................................... 200,000 (g) Capitol road improvement Nan Pohn Mal to Sekerei.. ....................... 300,000 (h) Road improvement, Yap ........... 100,000 (i) Road improvement, Chuuk ......... 100,000 (j) Fuel subsidy, Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, Kosrae utility companies (YSPUC, CPUC, 25 of 29 C.B.
NO.

22-265 PUC, KUA)................................... 1,000,000 (k) Chuuk Lerik Mataaw ship.......... 100,000 (l) Pohnpei Lady Pohnpei ship........ 75,000 (m) Lady Minto ship................. 95,000 (n) PMA subsidy.........................$ 100,000 (o) Open market Pohnpei causeway 200,000 (p) Case tracking system (CTS).......... 25,000” Section 8.

Section 12 of Public Law No.

22-153 is hereby 9 amended to read as follows: 10 Section 12.
Allotment and Management of Funds and Lapse 11 Dates.

12 13 (1) General provisions.

(a) All funds appropriated by this act shall be 14 allotted, managed, administered and accounted for in accordance 15 with applicable law, including, but not limited to, the 16 Financial Management Act of 1979.
17 (b) The allottees shall be responsible for ensuring 18 that these funds, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are 19 used solely for the purposes specified in this act, and that no 20 obligations are incurred in excess of the sums appropriated.

21 (2) Allottees.
21 (2) Allottees.

The allottees of the funds appropriated 22 by this act are as follows: 23 (a) Section 2 - the allottee of these funds shall be 24 the President of the Federated States of Micronesia; 25 (b) Section 3 - the allottee of these funds shall be 26 of 29 C.B.

NO.
22-265 1 the Speaker of the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia; 2 (c) Section 4 – the allottee of these funds shall be 3 the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Federated States of 4 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) Sections 8(1)(f) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Chair of the Joint Committee on Compact Review and Planning; (ii) Section 8(8)(a) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Kosrae; (iii) Section 8(8)(b) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Pohnpei; (iv) Section 8(8)(c) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Chuuk, except for the $75,000 for the Weno Municipal Police, whom the allottee shall be the President of the Federated States of Micronesia; (v) Section 8(8)(d) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Yap; (vi) Section 8(8)(l) – the allottee of these 27 of 29 C.B.
NO.
22-265 funds shall be the Governor of the state of Kosrae; (vii) Section 8(11) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Speaker of the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia; (viii) Section 8(12)(a) – the allottee of these funds shall be the President of the College of Micronesia-FSM; (ix) Section 8(12)(d) through (g) - the allottee of these funds shall be the Chief Justice of the respective State Supreme Court; (x) Section 8(12)(h) - the allottee of these funds shall be the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Federated States of Micronesia; (xi) Section 9(1) – the allottee of these funds shall be the President of the College of Micronesia-FSM; (xii) Sections 9(4)(c) and (g) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Kosrae; (xiii) Sections 9(4)(d) and (h) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Pohnpei; (xiv) Sections 9(4)(e) and (i) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Chuuk; (xv) Sections 9(4)(f) and (j) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Yap.
; (xvi) Section 9(12)(g), (l), (m) and (o) – the 28 of 29 C.B.

NO.
22-265 allottee of these funds shall be the Secretary of the Department of Transportation, Communications and Infrastructure; (xvii) Section 9(12)(h) and (n) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Yap; (xviii) Section 9(12)(i) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Chuuk; (xix) Section 9(12)(k) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Speaker of the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia.” (3) Lapse date.
The authority of the allottees to obligate funds appropriated by this act shall lapse as of September 30, 2023; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the funds appropriated under section 9 of this act shall not lapse.

Section 9.

This act shall become law upon approval by the 16 President of the Federated States of Micronesia or upon its 17 becoming law without such approval.

18 19 Date: 12/2/22 Introduced by: /s/ Isaac V. Figir Isaac V. Figir 29 of 29