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TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA ELEVENTH SPECIAL SESSION, 2021 C.B.

NO.
NO.

21-395 A BILL FOR AN ACT To appropriate $70,664,512 from the General Fund of the Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2022, 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 $70,664,512 from the General Fund of the 3 Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending 4 September 30, 2022, for the purpose of funding the operation 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 the Compact Sector Grant amount for COM-FSM and 10 percent of the 11 Supplemental Education Grant funds as is reflected in the budget 12 for the Department of Education.

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

Operating expenses of the Executive Branch.


The 15 sum of $26,570,791, 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, 2022, for CBL 21-409 C.B.

NO.

21-395 1 the purpose of funding the operation of the Executive Branch of 2 the National Government during the fiscal year.
Of the total 3 amount of funds appropriated herein, $366,598 shall be deemed to 4 come from funds available under Supplemental Education Grant.

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

7 The sum of $1,972,392, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 8 for the operations of the Office of the President during the 9 fiscal year 2022.
The sum appropriated herein shall be 10 apportioned as follows: Personnel .................................$ 746,392 Travel ..................................... 252,000 Contractual Services........................ 770,000 OCE ........................................ 130,000 Fixed Assets ............................... 56,000 (2) Department of Foreign Affairs.
17 The sum of $6,053,310, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 18 for the operations of the Department of Foreign Affairs during 19 the fiscal year 2022.
The sum appropriated herein shall be 20 apportioned as follows: Personnel .................................$ 2,106,899 Travel ..................................... 140,650 Contractual Services........................ 3,282,981 OCE ........................................ 522,780 Fixed Assets ............................... -0- 2 of 27 C.B.

NO.

21-395 1 (3) Department of Finance and Administration.
2 The sum of $3,086,504, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 3 for the operations of the Department of Finance and 4 Administration during the fiscal year 2022.
The sum appropriated 5 herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel .............................$ 2,339,150 Travel ................................ 154,754 Contractual Services................... 241,300 OCE ................................... 341,300 Fixed Assets .......................... 10,000 (4) Department of Resources and Development.
12 The sum of $1,464,750, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 13 for the operations of the Department of Resources and Development 14 during the fiscal year 2022.
The sum appropriated herein shall 15 be apportioned as follows: Personnel .............................$ 977,756 Travel ................................ 129,042 Contractual Services................... 120,200 OCE ................................... 233,753 Fixed Assets .......................... 4,000 (5) Department of Transportation, Communications and Infrastructure.
23 The sum of $3,073,913, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 24 for the operations of the Department of Transportation, 25 Communication & Infrastructure during the fiscal year 2022.

The 3 of 27 C.B.

NO.


21-395 1 sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel .................................$ 690,693 Travel ..................................... 127,556 Contractual Services........................ 2,035,264 OCE ........................................ 118,900 Fixed Assets ............................... 101,500 (6) Department of Health and Social Affairs.
8 The sum of $1,127,142, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 9 for the operations of the Department of Health and Social Affairs 10 during the fiscal year 2022.
The sum appropriated herein shall 11 be apportioned as follows: Personnel ...................................$ 756,793 Travel ...................................... 72,111 Contractual Services......................... 124,942 OCE ......................................... 173,296 Fixed Assets ................................ -0- (7) Department of Education.
18 The sum of $860,817, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 19 the operations of the Department of Education during the fiscal 20 year 2022.

Of the total amount of funds appropriated herein, 21 $366,598 shall be deemed to come from funds available under the 22 Supplemental Education Grant.

The sum appropriated herein shall 23 be apportioned as follows: 24 25 Personnel .................................$ 474,931 Travel ..................................... 136,270 4 of 27 C.B.

NO.
NO.

21-395 1 2 3 4 Contractual Services........................$ 152,069 OCE ........................................ 66,548 Fixed Assets ............................... 31,000 (8) Department of Justice.

5 The sum of $6,313,546, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 6 for the operations of the Department of Justice during the fiscal 7 year 2022.
The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 8 follows: Personnel .................................$ 4,072,911 Travel ..................................... 210,587 Contractual Services........................ 1,070,920 OCE ........................................ 841,128 Fixed Assets ............................... 118,000 (9) Department of Climate Change, Environment and Emergency Management.
16 The sum of $780,515, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 17 the operations of the Office of Climate Change, Environment and 18 Emergency Management during the fiscal year 2022.
The sum 19 appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel .................................$ 586,978 Travel ..................................... 73,816 Contractual Services........................ 31,500 OCE ........................................ 52,220 Fixed Assets ............................... 36,000 (10) Office of the Public Defender.

5 of 27 C.B.

NO.
5 of 27 C.B.

NO.

21-395 1 The sum of $1,204,206, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 2 for the operations of the Office of the Public Defender during 3 the fiscal year 2022.
The sum appropriated herein shall be 4 apportioned as follows: Personnel .................................$ 875,393 Travel ..................................... 73,519 Contractual Services........................ 128,394 OCE ........................................ 86,900 Fixed Assets ............................... 40,000 (11) Office of National Archives, Culture and Historic Preservation.
12 The sum of $242,461, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 13 the operations of the Office of National Archives, Culture and 14 Historic Preservation during the fiscal year 2022.
The sum 15 appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel ..................................$ 187,478 Travel ...................................... 19,269 Contractual Services......................... 15,425 OCE ......................................... 20,289 Fixed Assets................................. -0- (12) Office of the Veterans Affairs.
22 The sum of $159,908, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 23 the operations of Office of the Veterans Affairs during the 24 fiscal year 2022.

The sum appropriated herein shall be 25 apportioned as follows: 6 of 27 C.B.

NO.
NO.

21-395 Personnel .................................$ 79,240 Travel ..................................... 12,668 Contractual Services........................ 50,000 OCE ........................................ 18,000 Fixed Assets................................ -0- (13) Office of Personnel.

7 The sum of $231,328, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 8 the operations of Office of Personnel during the fiscal year 9 2022.
The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 10 follows: Personnel .................................$ 185,161 Travel ..................................... 4,367 Contractual Services........................ -0- OCE ........................................ 11,800 Fixed Assets................................ 30,000 Section 3.

Operating Expenses of the Legislative 17 Branch.


The sum of $6,255,171, or so much thereof as may be 18 necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the 19 Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending 20 September 30, 2022, for the operations of the Legislative Branch 21 of the National Government during fiscal year 2022.

The sum 22 appropriated by this section shall be apportioned as follows: 23 (1) Speaker and Members.
24 The sum of $2,951,518, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 25 for the operations of the Office of the Speaker and Members of 7 of 27 C.B.

NO.

21-395 1 the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia during the 2 fiscal year 2022.
The sum appropriated herein shall be 3 apportioned as follows: Personnel .................................$ 438,150 Travel ..................................... 188,368 Contractual Services........................ 2,325,000 OCE ........................................

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

10 The sum of $2,813,653, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 11 for the operations of the Congress staff offices during the 12 fiscal year 2022.
The sum appropriated herein shall be 13 apportioned as follows: Personnel .................................$ 1,492,653 Travel...................................... 30,000 Contractual Services........................ 807,000 OCE......................................... 259,000 Fixed Assets................................ 225,000 (3) Congress Delegation Offices.
20 The sum of $490,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 21 the operations of the Congress delegation offices during the 22 fiscal year 2022.

The sum appropriated is apportioned as 23 follows: 24 25 (i) Kosrae Delegation Office...............$ 70,000 (ii) Pohnpei Delegation Office.............. 140,000 8 of 27 C.B.

NO.

21-395 1 2 3 (iii) Chuuk Delegation Office...............$ 210,000 (iv) Yap Delegation Office.................. 70,000 Section 4.
Operating Expenses of the National Judicial 4 Branch.

The sum of $2,088,884, or so much thereof as may be 5 necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the 6 Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending 7 September 30, 2022, for the operations of the Judicial Branch of 8 the National Government during the fiscal year 2022.
The sum 9 appropriated by this section shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel..................................$ 1,220,556 Travel...................................... 185,978 Contractual Services........................ 394,300 OCE......................................... 228,050 Fixed Assets................................ 60,000 Section 5.

Operating Expenses of the National Public 16 Auditor.
The sum of $1,129,956, or so much thereof as may be 17 necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the 18 Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending 19 September 30, 2022, for the operations of the National Office of 20 the Public Auditor and for the National Public Auditor’s Chuuk 21 Office.
The sum appropriated by this section shall be apportioned 22 as follows: 23 24 25 Personnel .................................$ 817,056 Travel...................................... 69,500 Contractual Services........................ 156,000 9 of 27 C.B.

NO.

21-395 1 2 3 4 OCE.........................................$ 67,400 Fixed Assets................................ 20,000 Section 6.

Operating Expenses of Agencies, Boards, Authorities, and Commissions of the National Government.
5 The sum of $3,139,689, 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, 2022, for 8 the operations of the following boards, commissions and agencies 9 during the fiscal year 2022.

The sum appropriated by this 10 section shall be apportioned as follows: 11 (1) National Oceanic Resource Management Authority 12 (NORMA).
13 The sum of $1,223,964, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 14 for the operations of NORMA for the fiscal year 2022.

The sum 15 appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel .................................$ 813,115 Travel...................................... 123,738 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 2022.

The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 25 follows: 10 of 27 C.B.

NO.
NO.

21-395 Personnel..................................$ Travel......................................$ Contractual Services........................ -0- -0- -0- OCE......................................... 120,000 Fixed Assets................................ -0- (3) FSM Banking Board.

7 The sum of $211,419, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 8 the operations of the FSM Banking Board during the fiscal year 9 2022.
The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 10 follows: Personnel .................................$ 115,263 Travel...................................... 25,418 Contractual Services........................ 41,128 OCE......................................... 25,110 Fixed Assets................................ 4,500 (4) FSM Insurance Board.

17 The sum of $548,052, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 18 the operations of the FSM Insurance Board during the fiscal year 19 2022.
The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 20 follows: Personnel .................................$ 145,197 Travel...................................... 23,676 Contractual Services........................ 347,175 OCE......................................... 32,004 Fixed Assets................................ -0- 11 of 27 C.B.

NO.

21-395 1 (5) FSM Postal Services.


2 The sum of $1,036,254, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 3 for the operations of the National Postal Services during the 4 fiscal year 2022.
The sum appropriated herein shall be 5 apportioned as follows: Personnel..................................$ 591,352 Travel...................................... 51,833 Contractual Services........................ 187,119 OCE......................................... 175,950 Fixed Assets................................ 30,000 Section 7.

Special Programs.
Special Programs.

The sum of $419,861, 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, 2022, for the following special programs 15 during the fiscal year 2022.

The sum appropriated by this section 16 shall be apportioned as follows: 17 (1) National Election Office.
18 The sum of $448,834, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 19 the operations of National Election Office during the fiscal year 20 2022.

The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 21 follows: 22 23 24 25 Personnel...................................$ 288,083 Travel....................................... 16,112 Contractual Services......................... 61,676 OCE.......................................... 82,963 12 of 27 C.B.

NO.
NO.

21-395 1 2 Fixed Assets.................................$ -0- Section 8.

Grants, Subsidies and Contributions.

The sum of 3 $15,920,733, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby 4 appropriated from the General Fund of the Federated States of 5 Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2022, for the 6 following grants, subsidies and contributions during the fiscal 7 year 2022.
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) ............................... 800 (c) Pacific Island News Association (PINA) ............................... (d) Asia Pacific Investment ........ 350 250 (e) Former Presidents’ Allowance ... 50,000 (f) Implementation of JCRP ......... 1,120,981 (g) Donor Partners Meeting ......... 75,000 (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 13 of 27 C.B.

NO.
NO.

21-395 (d) UN Membership Fee .............. $ 50,000 (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) Japan & Oregon new office needs 100,000 (3) Department of Finance and Administration.
(a) CTA-OCO Membership Fee ......... 10,000 (b) Maintenance Fee for Financial Management System ...................... 55,000 (c) PITTA – CTA .................... 5,000 (d) ADB, IMF & Budget Finance Policy Consultations .......................... 25,000 (e) Macro Economist Advisor ........ 200,000 (f) Global Forum Membership Fees ... 26,000 (g) PFTAC Membership Fees .......... 20,000 (h) CTA Conference ................. 35,000 (i) Tax Compliance Initiative ...... 10,000 (j) FSM Trust Fund Board ........... 50,000 (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 27 C.B.

NO.

21-395 (d) FAO ........................... $ 6,800 (e) Western Forestry Leadership Coalition (WFLC) ............................... 530 (f) SPC Matching Fund .............. 60,000 (g) Micronesian Challenge .......... 10,000 (h) Micronesian Cruise Association .
2,500 (i) South Pacific Tourism Org (SPTO) 8,000 (j) IRENA .......................... 250 (k) Micronesian Trade Committee .... 30,000 (l) Convention on Biological Diversity 1,000 (m) International Fund for Agriculture Development ............................ 500 (n) UNIDO .......................... 1,000 (o) Micronesian Island Forum Membership Fee ............................... 15,000 (p) Micronesia Association for Sustainable Agriculture ............................ 50,000 (q) Micronesia Challenges Endowment Fund ............................... 100,000 (r) International Coconut Community (annual fees & Prior Year) ............. 18,000 (5) Department of Health and Social Affairs.
(a) UN Fund for Population Activity (UNFPA) .............................. 3,000 (b) World Health Organization ..... 4,780 15 of 27 C.B.

NO.
NO.

21-395 (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 ................. 70,000 (g) UNICEF (Vaccine & TB Drugs) ... 50,000 (h) UN – FSM Women (CEDAW) ........ 1,000 (i) Drug Quality Testing .......... 3,000 (j) National Therapeutics & Standards Committee ............................. 35,000 (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 (CCPI) ................................ 200,000 (i) Faithwalk Christian College ..... 200,000 (j) Aid for FSM Students in China ... 50,000 16 of 27 C.B.

NO.

21-395 (k) Aid for FSM Students in Fiji ... $ 35,000 (7) Department of Transportation, Communications & Infrastructure.
(a) Asia Pacific Telecommunity ...... 6,075 (b) International Telecommunications Union(ITU) .............................. 25,867 (c) International Civil Aviation Org.

(ICAO) including prior years obligation .

203,293 (d) FSM Capital Energy (Utilities) .. 600,000 (e) Micronesian Shipping Commission .

25,000 (f) Fueling & Provisions of Caroline Voyager and Navigator ................... 1,345,830 (g) FSM National Gov’t Computer Network Bandwidth contract .............. 177,420 (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 ................. 324,380 (f) DOJ Fuel Subsidy ............... 550,000 (g) WIPO ........................... 3,200 (h) INTERPOL Membership Activities .
50,000 (i) Ammunitions for side arms & long rifles ............................... 25,000 17 of 27 C.B.

NO.
21-395 (j) Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) including arrears ...... $ 7,962 (k) Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBT) including arrears .. 13,708 (9) Department of DECCEM (a) UNEP ........................... 835 (b) UN Framework Convention (UNFCC) ............................... 325 (c) UN Convention to Combat Desertification ........................ 195 (d) Secretariat of the Pacific Region Environment Program (SPREP membership)10,768 (e) Waigani Convention ............. 1,190 (f) SPREP Noumea Convention ........ 1,764 (g) Earth Day Activities ........... 15,000 (h) 8th Bi-Annual Environment Conference ............................. 20,000 (i) Basel Convention ................ (j) Kyoto Protocol ................. (k) WMO Membership (current fee and 197 484 outstanding prior obligations .......... 15,000 (l) Disaster Assistance Emergency Fund 200,000 (m) Disaster Relief Fund ........... 100,000 (n) Stockholm Convention membership 550 (10) Office of NACHP.
18 of 27 C.B.

NO.

21-395 (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 the FSM.
(a) Climate Change Conference ...... 50,000 (c) Staff Upgrade .................. 25,000 (d) MRA Conference in Japan ........ 30,000 (e) Fisheries Meeting .............. 30,000 (f) IPU Annual dues ................ 12,500 (g) COFA Alliance Nat’l Network .... 25,000 (h) ..
Compact of Free Association l HistoricaProject ....................... 25,000 (12) Resources (Other Grants, Subsidies & Contributions) (a) COM Board Meeting .............. 5,000 (b) COM Treaty Obligations ......... 25,000 (c) FSM Social Security ............ 1,000,000 (d) Kosrae Judiciary Subsidy ...... .

40,000 (e) Pohnpei Judiciary Subsidy.

...... 60,000 (f) Chuuk Judiciary Subsidy.. ...... 110,000 (g) Yap Judiciary Subsidy .......... 40,000 (h) National Law Day ............... 50,000 19 of 27 C.B.

NO.
NO.

21-395 (i) Micronesian Legal Services Corporation ........................... $ 250,000 (j) NORMA-Forum Fisheries Agency ... 63,000 (k) NORMA-WCPFC Membership fee ..... 318,397 (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 Section 9.
Capital and Human Resources Development.

12 The sum of $15,110,455, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 13 is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the Federated 14 States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 15 2022, for the following capital improvements, development 16 programs and projects and human resources development.
Of the 17 total amount of funds appropriated herein, $1,000,000 shall be 18 deemed to come from funds available under the Amended Compact 19 from the education sector; and $1,246,022 shall be deemed to come 20 from funds available under the Supplemental Education Grant.

The 21 sum appropriated by this section shall be apportioned as follows: 22 23 24 25 (1) College of Micronesia – FSM.
(a) COM-FSM – operation ........... $ 4,000,000 (b) Fisheries Maritime Institute ... 919,392 (c) Supplemental Education Grant .... 689,948 20 of 27 C.B.

NO.

21-395 (d) COM-FSM Endowment Fund ......... $ 285,000 (e) Public Health/DDFT .............. 250,000 (2) Department of Finance & Administration.

(a) FSM Warehouse lease & maintenance 40,000 (b) PCD Awareness & Training ....... 35,000 (3) Department of Resources & Development.
(a) R&D Conference ................... 73,000 (b) Tourism Conference ............... 80,000 (c) Tourism Project Implementation & Planning ................................. 450,000 (d) Tourism Public Awareness ......... 75,000 (e) FSM Assoc.
of Chamber of Commerce/ Support to COC ........................... 67,000 (f) Foreign Investment Data Management System ................................. 69,500 (g) R&D SNLC ......................... 75,000 (4) Department of Transportation, Communications and Infrastructure.
(a) Operation and drydocking of Caroline Voyager & Navigator ..................... 1,000,000 (b) FSM National Government Computer Network ................................ 100,000 (c) FSM National Government Facility Improvements & Renovation ............... 1,621,665 (d) FSM Capital Road Improvement .... 300,000 21 of 27 C.B.

NO.

21-395 (5) Department of Justice.


(a) Anti-human trafficking enforcement, campaign and investigation ............ $ 125,000 (b) Victims Shelter & Services ..... 200,000 (c) Patrol Boat maintenance ........ 150,000 (d) DOJ Satellite phone & billing .. 10,000 (e) HT Annual conference ........... 50,000 (f) Build Anti Trafficking Shelters in Pohnpei, Kosrae & Yap ............... 150,000 (g) Law Reform Initiatives ......... 75,000 (6) DECCEM.
(a) National & State Table Top Exercise ............................... 30,000 (b) Fourth Disaster Risk Management Environment Conference ................. 40,000 (c) Outer Island Trip assessment on Climate Change & Disaster Risk Management 80,000 (d) International Day for Disaster Reduction (IDDR) ....................... 12,000 (e) Digital Atlas Development for All FSM outer/outlying Islands ............. 255,000 (7) National Election.
(a) Voter ID Card & New Voter Registration Project ................... 50,000 (8) Department of Health and Social Affairs.

22 of 27 C.B.

NO.
21-395 (a) Health Services Special Pathologist (Histopathology improvement) .......... $ 105,000 (b) Medical Specialist Team ........ 195,000 (c) MOE – BHWP Med ................. 22,200 (d) Electronic Health Record System 35,000 (e) Youth Sports Program ........... 50,000 (f) Rheumatic Heart Program ........ 120,000 (g) FSM Vector Surveillance & Control Program ............................... 50,000 (h) Implementing IHR Core Capacity to Improve Security .................... 50,000 (9) Department of Education.
(a) NDOE Year 3 Project (SEG) ...... 556,074 (b) School Accreditation ........... 431,877 (c) Teacher Certification Project .. 205,273 (d) Assessment & Research to revive NMCT ............................... 140,312 (e) Printing & Ship of Science SLOs 75,000 (e) Expansion and development of Language Arts SLOs ..................... 232,214 (f) CELEP .......................... 50,000 (10) NORMA (a) Commemoration of World Tuna Day 70,000 (b) Electronic Monitoring Project – 2023 T3 Challenge ........................... 150,000 23 of 27 C.B.
NO.

21-395 (c) Hosting of WCPFC TCC & SC ..... $ 10,000 (d) Internship of students in the area of fisheries management ........... 5,000 (11) Other Capital & Human Resource Development.

(a) JCRP Legal Counsel ............. 1,200,000 Section 10.

Employment Ceilings.
The maximum number of 7 positions for each branch and agency of the National Government of 8 the Federated States of Micronesia for fiscal year 2022 shall be 9 as follows: (1) Executive Branch ..................... 649 (2) Legislative Branch ................... 66 (3) Judiciary Branch ..................... 42 (4) Public Auditor ....................... 23 (5) Agencies (a) National Oceanic Resource Management Authority ..................... 29 (b) FSM Banking Board................ 4 (c) FSM Insurance Board ............. 5 (d) National Postal Services......... 40 (6) Special Programs (a) National Election Office......... 13 Section 11.
Reprogramming.

Reprogramming of funds into or 23 from the personnel budget line item shall not be permitted.

The 24 President, Speaker and Chief Justice may reprogram up to 10 25 percent to or from the funds appropriated in sections 2 (Operating 24 of 27 C.B.

NO.

21-395 1 expenses of the Executive Branch), 3 (Operating expenses of the 2 Legislative Branch), and 4 (Operating expenses of the National 3 Judicial Branch).
Reprogramming of funds within a department, 4 office or agency shall be effected by the head of such department, 5 office or agency by specifying in writing to the Secretary of the 6 Department of Finance and Administration of the FSM National 7 Government, the accounts for which funding is either increased or 8 decreased.
Reprogramming other than as specified herein is not 9 permitted, and more specifically, reprogramming into or out of any 10 line item contained in section 8 (Grants, Subsidies and 11 Contributions) or section 9 (Investment: Capital and Human 12 Resources) is not permitted.

The President shall report to 13 Congress within one month of the last day of each financial 14 quarter all amounts reprogrammed inter or intra a department, 15 office or agency.

16 Section 12.
16 Section 12.

Allotment and management of funds and lapse 17 dates.

18 (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 25 of 27 C.B.

NO.
NO.

21-395 that no obligations are incurred in excess 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 (h) – the allottee of these funds is the Speaker of the FSM Congress; (ii) Section 8, subsection (12)(d) through (g) - 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 allottee 26 of 27 C.B.
NO.

21-395 of these funds is 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, 2022; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the authority to obligate 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: 4/29/21 Introduced by: /s/ Florencio S. Harper Florencio S. Harper (by request) 27 of 27