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

NO.

22-220 A BILL FOR AN ACT To further amend sections 8, 9 and 12 of Public Law No.

22-42, as amended by Public Laws Nos.

22-60, 22-80, and 22-103, to change the use and allottee of certain funds previously appropriate therein, and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA: 1 Section 1.

Section 8 of Public Law No.

22-42, as amended by 2 Public Laws Nos.


22-60, 22-80, and 22-103, is hereby further 3 amended to read as follows: “Section 8.

Grants, Subsidies and Contributions.

The sum of $[18,846,010] 18,546,010, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2022, for the following grants, subsidies and contributions during the fiscal year 2022.
The sum appropriated by this section shall be apportioned as follows: (1) Office of the President.

(a) Asia Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) ........................ $ 4,500 (b) Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union .

800 (c) Pacific Island News Association .

350 (d) Asia Pacific Investment ............................. 250 (e) Former Presidents’ Allowance .... CBL 22-235 C.B.

NO.
NO.

22-220 50,000 (f) Joint Committee on Compact Review and Planning (JCRP) ............... $ 1,375,314 (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 (h) SIS Program.................. ... 10,000 (i) IOM Membership Fee .............. 600 (j) SPC Host Grant .................. 20,000 (k) Differential for foreign currency adjustment ................................ (l) FSM Day ......................... (m) Pacific Island Forum ............ -0- -0- -0- (n) Oregon Consulate New Office Needs 100,000 (o) United Nations Multi-Country Interim Office Lease ............................... 30,907 (3) Department of Finance and Administration (a) CTA-OCO Membership Fee .......... 10,000 (b) Maintenance Fee for Financial 2 of 21 C.B.
NO.

22-220 Management Information System (FMIS).

...... 55,000 (c) PITTA – CTA ..................... 5,000 (d) ADB, IMF and Budget, Finance 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) FSM Trust Fund Board ............ 50,000 (j) Tax Compliance Initiative ....... 25,000 (4) Department of Resources and Development.
(a) Pacific Islands Development Program (PIDP) ............................. 15,000 (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 (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 3 of 21 C.B.
NO.
22-220 Diversity (CBD) ............................ 1,000 (m) IFAD ............................ 500 (n) UNIDO Membership ................ 1,000 (o) Micronesia Island Forum Membership Fee ............................ $ 15,000 (p) Hosting Micronesian Island Forum (q) Pacific Festival ................ -0- -0- (r) Micronesia Association of Sustainable Agriculture ................................ 50,000 (s) Micronesia Island Forum ........ 15,000 (t) Micronesia Challenge Endowment Fund 100,000 (u) International Coconut Community (annual and prior years fees) .... 18,000 (5) Department of Health and Social Affairs.
(a) UNFPA ........................... 3,000 (b) WHO ............................. 4,780 (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 (h) UN/FSM Women (CEDAW) ........... 1,000 (i) Drug Quality Testing Project.
.. 3,000 (j) National Therapeutics & Standards Committee ............................... 35,000 4 of 21 C.B.

NO.

22-220 (k) Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) .

(l) FSM Youth Summit ............... (m) TB & Leprosy – Free Chuuk Project (n) Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) .......................... $ (o) Response to measles and coronavirus (6) Department of Education.
-0- -0- -0- -0- -0- (a) Aid to Non-Public Schools ...... 1,000,000 (b) Aid to CMI Students ............ 40,000 (c) Aid to PCC Students ............. 100,000 (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) Caroline College & Pastoral Institute 200,000 (i) Faithwalk Christian College ..... 200,000 (j) Aid to FSM Students in China .... 50,000 (k) Aid to FSM Students in Fiji ..... 35,000 (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 5 of 21 C.B.

NO.

22-220 (c) ICAO ............................ 203,293 (d) FSM Capital Energy .............. 600,000 (e) Micronesian Shipping Commission .
25,000 (f) Fuel and Provisions for passenger and cargo vessels owned by the National Government .. $ 1,345,830 (g) MS Navigator Repair and Services -0- (h) FSM National Government Computer Network Bandwidth Contract ......... ....... 177,420 (i) Airport Terminal Building on Ta .

150,000 (j) TC&I-unpaid sea allowance ....... 1,220 (8) Department of Justice.
(a) States Joint Law Enforcement: Kosrae 100,000 (b) States Joint Law Enforcement: Pohnpei 225,000 (c) States Joint Law Enforcement: Chuuk, of which $75,000 shall be used for Weno Municipal Police ........................... 275,000 (d) States Joint Law Enforcement: Yap 100,000 (e) Police Academy .................. 100,000 (f) Fuel Subsidy .................... 500,000 (g) WIPO ............................ (h) Patrol Boat – Replenish ......... (i) Reimbursement – Yap Investigation -0- -0- -0- (j) Interpol-Membership & Activities 30,000 (k) Security for MIF ................ -0- (l) Ammunitions for side arm & long rifles 25,000 6 of 21 C.B.
NO.
22-220 (m) Organizations for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) .................... 7,962 (n) Comprehensive Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty Organization (CTBT) ....................... $ 13,708 (9) Department of Environment, Climate Change and Emergency Management (a) UNEP ............................ (b) UNFCCC .......................... (c) UNCCD ........................... 835 325 195 (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 ................ (j) Kyoto Protocol .................. 197 484 (k) WMO Membership .................. 15,000 (l) Disaster Assistance Emergency Relief Fund (DAEF)- Matching ............... 200,000 (m) Disaster Relief Fund ............ 100,000 (n) Stockholm Convention Membership .
(o) Travel to Climate Change Conference 550 -0- (p) Consultant to assist in writing grants and concept notes .......................... 150,000 (10) Office of National Archives, Culture and 7 of 21 C.B.

NO.
22-220 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) IPU Conferences ................. (b) Climate Change Conferences ...... (c) ACP ............................. (d) APPF ............................ -0- -0- -0- -0- (e) Staff Upgrade ................... 25,000 (f) World Bank-IMF Annual Meeting ... (g) MRA Conference in Japan ......... -0- -0- (h) Fisheries Meetings .............. -0- (i) IPU Annual Dues ................. 12,500 (j) COFA Alliance National Network (CANN).
25,000 (k) Travel to Investment Advisor (Wilshire) -0- (l) Compact Historical Project ...... 25,000 (m) IPU prior years dues ............ 13,000 (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 8 of 21 C.B.

NO.
22-220 (d) State Judiciaries: Kosrae ...... 50,000 (e) State Judiciaries: Pohnpei ...... 70,000 (f) State Judiciaries: Chuuk ........ 120,000 (g) State Judiciaries: Yap ......... $ 50,000 (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 Fee 318,397 (l) PNA Membership Fee .............. 10,000 (m) Independence Day Activities ..... 50,000 (n) MLFC Loan Payment ............... 260,000 (o) Single Audit Fee (FY 2019) ...... 460,000 (p) Staff Housing ................... 750,000 (q) Recruitment and Repatriation .... 223,218 (r) Legal and Advocacy Services in Washington D.C. (A&P) ...................... -0- (s) Pacific Missionary Aviation Service 100,000 (t) Caroline Air Subsidy for Insurance, fuel and personnel .............. 250,000 (u) MiCare Subsidy .................. -0- (v) Contribution to Tourism Sector Mitigation Fund ............................ -0- (w) President’s Day ................. 75,000 (x) Caroline Island Air Subsidy 9 of 21 C.B.
NO.

22-220 for Airplanes .............................. 450,000 (y) DOJ – prior years obligations ... 24,435 (z) DOJ – boats purchase ............ 75,000 (aa) FSMTCC – OAE ................... $ 600,000 (bb) Disaster Relief Fund ... [500,000] 200,000 (cc) COVID-19 temporary emergency Police Officers ............................ 296,562” Section 2.

Section 9 of Public Law No.

22-42, as amended my 9 Public Law No.


22-80, is hereby further amended to read as 10 follows: “Section 9.

Capital and Human Resources Development.

The sum of $[14,786,505] 15,086,505 or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2022, for the following capital improvements, development programs, and projects and human resources development.
Of the total amount of funds appropriated herein, $1,542,202 shall be deemed to come from funds available under the Supplemental Education Grant and $1,000,000 shall be deemed to come from funds available under the Compact Sector Grants.

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

(a) College of Micronesia–FSM ...... $ 4,000,000 10 of 21 C.B.

NO.
22-220 (b) FSM Fisheries and Maritime Institute (FMI) ............................ 919,392 (c) College of Micronesia-FSM SEG Funding ............................... $ 689,948 (d) COM-FSM Endowment Fund .......... 500,000 (e) COM-FSM Public Health Initiative ................................. 250,000 (2) Department of Finance and Administration (a) FSM Warehouse Lease and Maintenance -0- (b) PCD Awareness and Training ...... 35,000 (c) Tax Reform Commission ........... -0- (d) CIU – World Bank & ADB Funded Projects ............................ -0- (e) Strengthening financial management for municipal governments .................. 50,000 (3) Department of Resources and Development (a) R&D SNLC ........................ 75,000 (b) Enhancing Fisheries: Kosrae ..... (c) Enhancing Fisheries: Pohnpei .... (d) Enhancing Fisheries: Chuuk ...... (e) Enhancing Fisheries: Yap ........ -0- -0- -0- -0- (f) R&D Conference .................. 73,000 (g) Foreign Investment Data Management System .......................... 69,500 (h) Expo 2020 Dubai UAE ............. -0- 11 of 21 C.B.
NO.
22-220 (i) Intellectual Property Rights Regime -0- (j) Development of Coastal Fisheries Policy for FSM ............................. -0- (k) Development & Operation Framework to Implement the National Seabed Mining Act .. $ -0- (l) Tourism Conference .............. 80,000 (m) Tourism Budget & Planning with the States ............................ 450,000 (n) Tourism Public Awareness ........ 75,000 (o) Little Fire Ants (Eradication, Control, & Prevention) ..................... -0- (p) State Strategic Action Plan for the FSM ................................ (q) Renewable Energy Development Plan (r) National Social Indicators Survey (s) Localization of Sustainable -0- -0- -0- Development Goals in the FSM ............... -0- (t) FSM Association of Chamber of Commerce/Support to COC .................... 67,000 (u) National Coastal Fisheries Monitoring Team ............................ (v) Computing Facility Upgrade ...... (w) Strengthening National/Private Sector -0- -0- Organizations in the FSM ................... -0- (4) Department of Transportation, Communications 12 of 21 C.B.
NO.
22-220 and Infrastructure (a) Operation and Dry-Docking of Caroline Voyager and Navigator .......... 1,000,000 (b) FSM National Government Computer Network ................................... $ 100,000 (c) AIP Matching Fund ................ -0- (d) States Roads Maintenance & Improvement, to be divide equally between the four states with Chuuk’s portion specifically designated for Weno Road ................... 1,200,000 (e) FSM National Government Facility Improvements and Renovations ............... 592,715 (f) Outer Island Airport ............ (g) New Warehouse Building .......... (h) Airport Needs ................... -0- -0- -0- (i) Capital Road improvement ........ 300,000 (5) Department of Justice (a) Anti-Human Trafficking Enforcement, Campaign, and Investigation ................ 125,000 (b) Victim Shelter and Services ..... 100,000 (c) Boat Maintenance ................ 150,000 (d) Slipping of the FSS Independence -0- (e) DOJ Satellite Phone Billing ..... 10,000 (f) HT Annual Conference ............ 50,000 (g) Victim Shelter in Chuuk ......... -0- 13 of 21 C.B.
NO.
22-220 (h) Build Anti-Trafficking Shelters in Pohnpei, Yap, and Kosrae ................ (i) Purchase four patrol boats ...... (j) COVID-19 Law Enforcement & Emergency Response ........................ $ (k) Law Reform Initiatives ......... -0- -0- -0- -0- (6) Department of Environment, Climate Change and Emergency Management (a) National & State Table Top Exercise 30,000 (b) Outer Island Trip Assessment – Climate Change & Disaster Risk Management .. 80,000 (c) National Joint Platform for Environment & Risk Resilience .............. -0- (d) International Day for Disaster Reduction ................................ 12,000 (e) Training & Maintenance for Radio Communications ............................. -0- (f) Fostering Sustainable Solid Waste Management Systems in FSM .................. -0- (g) Fourth Disaster Risk Management Environment Conference ..................... 40,000 (h) Digital Atlas Dev.
for the four states and outer islands ................... 255,000 (7) National Election Commission Office (a) Voter ID Card and New Voter 14 of 21 C.B.

NO.
22-220 Registration Project ....................... 50,000 (8) Department of Health and Social Affairs (a) MOE-BHWP Med .................... 22,200 (b) Electronic Record System ....... $ 35,000 (c) Rheumatic Heart Program ......... 120,000 (d) Medical Specialist Team ......... 195,000 (e) National Women Council .......... -0- (f) Vector Surveillance & Control Program ................................... 50,000 (g) Histopathology Laboratory ....... (h) FSM Food Safety Laboratory ...... -0- -0- (i) Pathologist ..................... 105,000 (j) Food/Water Testing Lab .......... -0- (k) Youth in Sports ................. 50,000 (l) Doctors: Foundation Project ..... -0- (m) Implementing IHR Core Capacity to Improve Health Security ................. 50,000 (n) Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) .. -0- (9) Department of Education (a) NDOE Year 3 Project (SEG) ....... 556,074 (b) School Accreditation ............ 431,877 (c) Teacher Certification Project ... 205,273 (d) Literacy Intervention for FSM Leaders of Tomorrow (LIFT) ................. -0- (e) Printing and Shipment of Science 15 of 21 C.B.
NO.

22-220 Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) ........... 75,000 (f) Expansion and Development of SLO Language Arts .......................... 232,214 (g) CELEP .......................... $ 50,000 (h) Assessment & Research to revive NMCT 140,312 (10) NORMA (a) Commemoration of World Tuna Day 2022 ................................. 70,000 (b) FFC Meetings.
................... -0- (c) Hosting WPCFC, TTC, & SC ........ 10,000 (d) Internship for students in the area of fisheries management ............... 5,000 (e) T3 Monitoring ................... 150,000 (11) Other Capital and Human Resources Development (a) Capital Improvement Projects .... -0- (b) Design and Construction of Veterans Memorial .......................... (c) Conservation Society ............ (d) 2020 Constitutional Convention .
(e) Enhancing Tourism ............... (f) Purchase and delivery of an -0- -0- -0- -0- outer island airplane ...................... -0- (g) Assistance to FSM residents stranded in Hawaii & Guam due to COVID-19 .. -0- (h) Assistance to FSM students 16 of 21 C.B.

NO.
NO.

22-220 unable to return home due to COVID-19 ...... -0- (i) Contribution to the Guam Consulate for COVID-19 response activities ........... -0- (j) New Executive Building for DHSA & NDOE ............................... $ -0- (k) FSM Quarantine Facility in Guam .
500,000 (l) 4th FSM Constitutional Convention 85,000 (m) Litigation expenses for major crime prosecution in Yap ......................... 100,000 (n) Telecommunication Tower for Sapwuafik Outer Island .................... 120,000 (o) Chuuk State King Tide Mitigation And Recovery Needs ......................... 300,000” Section 3.

Section 12 of Public Law No.

22-42, as amended by 15 Public Law No.

22-103, is hereby further amended to read as 16 follows: “Section 12.
Allotment and Management of Funds and Lapse Dates.

(1) General provisions.

(a) All funds appropriated by this act shall be allotted, managed, administered and accounted for in accordance with applicable law, including, but not limited to, the Financial Management Act of 1979.

(b) The allottees shall be responsible for ensuring that these funds, or so much thereof as may be 17 of 21 C.B.

NO.
NO.

22-220 necessary, are used solely for the purposes specified in this act, and 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 and section 8(12)(w) - 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) Sections 8(1)(f) and 8(13)(q) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Chair of the Joint Committee on Compact Review and Planning; 18 of 21 C.B.
NO.
22-220 (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 the 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(11) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Speaker of the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia; (vii) Section 8(12)(a) – the allottee of these funds shall be the President of the College of Micronesia-FSM; (viii) Section 8(12)(d) through (g) - the allottee of these funds shall be the Chief Justice of the respective State Supreme Court; (ix) Section 8(12)(h) - the allottee of these funds shall be the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Federated States of Micronesia; 19 of 21 C.B.
NO.
22-220 (x) Section 9(1) – the allottee of these funds shall be the President of the College of Micronesia-FSM; (xi) Section 9(3)(b) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Kosrae; (xii) Section 9(3)(b) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Kosrae; (xiv) Section 9(3)(c) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Pohnpei; (xv) Section 9(3)(d) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Chuuk; (xvi) Section 9(3)(e) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Yap; (xvii) Section 9(11)(b) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Speaker of the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia; [and] (xviii) Section 9(11)(d) – the allottee of these funds shall be the President of the Constitutional Convention; and (xix) Section 9(11)(o) – the allottee of these funds shall be the Governor of the state of Chuuk.
(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 funds 20 of 21 C.B.

NO.

22-220 appropriated under section 9 of this act shall not lapse.

Section 4.

This act shall become law upon approval by the President of the Federated States of Micronesia or upon its 9 becoming law without such approval.
10 11 Date: 7/19/22 Introduced by: /s/ Wesley W. Simina Wesley W. Simina of 21