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TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA SEVENTH SPECIAL SESSION, 2023 C.B.

NO.
22-294 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ A BILL FOR AN ACT To appropriate $71,794,766 from the General Fund of the Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, 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.
Purpose.

The purpose of this act is as follows: To 2 appropriate the sum of $71,794,766 from the General Fund of the 3 Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 4 30, 2024, for the purpose of funding the operations of all branches 5 of the National Government of the Federated States of Micronesia, 6 its agencies, various programs, grants, subsidies and contributions, 7 Capital and Human Resources Development.
The National Government’s 8 share of the Amended Compact funds has been reduced to zero; EXCEPT 9 THAT; the National Government will retain 10 percent of the 10 Supplemental Education Grant funds as is reflected in the budget for 11 the Department of Education and for Capital and Human Resources 12 Development.

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

Operating expenses of the Executive Branch.


The sum 15 of $34,013,042 or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby 16 appropriated from the General Fund of the Federated States of 17 Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, for the CBL 22-304/PC #22-422 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.
NO.

22-294 1 purpose of funding the operation of the Executive Branch of the 2 National Government during the fiscal year.

Of the total amount of 3 funds appropriated herein, $366,570 shall be deemed to come from 4 funds available under Supplemental Education Grant.

The sum 5 appropriated by this section shall be apportioned as follows: 6 (1) Office of the President.
7 The sum of $2,446,696, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 8 the operations of the Office of the President during the fiscal year 9 2024.
The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel ................................. .... $ 878,943 Travel ..................................... ... 487,753 Contractual Services........................ ... 860,000 OCE ........................................ ... 130,000 Fixed Assets ............................... ... 90,000 (2) Department of Foreign Affairs.
16 The sum of $7,075,337, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 17 the operations of the Department of Foreign Affairs during the 18 fiscal year 2024.
The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned 19 as follows: Personnel .................................$ 2,754,045 Travel ..................................... 299,823 Contractual Services........................ 3,466,955 OCE ........................................ 554,514 Fixed Assets ............................... -0- (3) Department of Finance and Administration.
2 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.

22-294 1 The sum of $4,213,058, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 2 the operations of the Department of Finance and Administration 3 during the fiscal year 2024.
The sum appropriated herein shall be 4 apportioned as follows: Personnel ........................ ........ .....$ 3,265,912 Travel ................................ ........ 314,370 Contractual Services................ ......... ... 286,300 OCE ............................. ......... ...... 346,477 Fixed Assets ..................... ......... ..... -0- 10 (4) Department of Resources and Development.
11 The sum of $2,028,222, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 12 the operations of the Department of Resources and Development during 13 the fiscal year 2024.
The sum appropriated herein shall be 14 apportioned as follows: Personnel ............................. ........ $ 1,374,951 Travel .............................. ......... .. 229,433 Contractual Services................. ......... .. 203,839 OCE ................................. ......... .. 219,999 Fixed Assets ....................... ......... ... -0- (5) Department of Transportation, Communications and Infrastructure.
22 The sum of $3,633,274, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 23 the operations of the Department of Transportation, Communications & 24 Infrastructure during the fiscal year 2024.

The sum appropriated 25 herein shall be apportioned as follows: 3 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.
NO.

22-294 Personnel .............................. .... ...$ 953,752 Travel ................................ .... ..... 264,379 Contractual Services................ .... ........ 2,306,943 OCE .................................. .... ...... 108,200 Fixed Assets ....................... .... ........ -0- (6) Department of Health and Social Affairs.
7 The sum of $1,493,507, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 8 the operations of the Department of Health and Social Affairs during 9 the fiscal year 2024.
The sum appropriated herein shall be 10 apportioned as follows: Personnel ............................... .... ..$ 1,032,417 Travel ................................. .... .... 133,352 Contractual Services.................... .... .... 127,282 OCE .................................... .... .... 200,456 Fixed Assets ........................... .... .... -0- (7) Department of Education.
17 The sum of $1,137,606 or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 18 the operations of the Department of Education during the fiscal year 19 2024.

Of the total amount of funds appropriated herein, $366,570 20 shall be deemed to come from funds available under the Supplemental 21 Education Grant.
The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned 22 as follows: 23 24 25 Personnel ................................. .... $ 640,581 Travel ..................................... .... 160,973 Contractual Services...................... ... ..$ 231,226 4 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.
NO.

22-294 1 2 3 OCE ................................... .... ..... 104,826 Fixed Assets .......................... .... ..... -0- (8) Department of Justice.

4 The sum of $8,800,373, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 5 the operations of the Department of Justice during the fiscal year 6 2024.
The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel ............................... .... ..$ 5,911,019 Travel ................................... .... .. 411,912 Contractual Services.................... .... .... 1,007,375 OCE .................................... .... .... 1,470,067 Fixed Assets ........................... .... .... -0- (9) Office of the Public Defender.
13 The sum of $1,450,745, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 14 the operations of the Office of the Public Defender during the 15 fiscal year 2024.
The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned 16 as follows: Personnel ............................... .... ..$ 1,093,065 Travel .................................. .... ... 112,096 Contractual Services..................... .... ... 149,994 OCE .................................... .... .... 95,950 Fixed Assets ............................ .... ... -0- (10) Department of Climate Change, Environment and Emergency 23 Management.
24 The sum of $1,047,601, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 25 the operations of the Office of Environment and Emergency Management 5 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.

22-294 1 during the fiscal year 2024.


The sum appropriated herein shall be 2 apportioned as follows: Personnel ......................... .... ........$ 742,170 Travel ............................ .... ......... 146,703 Contractual Services................ .... ........ 106,500 OCE ................................. .... ....... 52,228 Fixed Assets ......................... .... ...... -0- (11) Office of National Archives, Culture and Historic 9 Preservation.
10 The sum of $292,360, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the 11 operations of the Office of National Archives, Culture and Historic 12 Preservation during the fiscal year 2024.
The sum appropriated 13 herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel .............................. ... ....$ 228,186 Travel ................................. ... ..... 28,459 Contractual Services..................... ... .... 15,425 OCE ..................................... ... .... 20,289 Fixed Assets.............................. ... ... -0- (12) Office of the Veterans Affairs.
20 The sum of $130,641, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 21 the operations of the Office of the Veterans Affairs during the 22 fiscal year 2024.

The sum appropriated herein shall be 23 apportioned as follows: 24 25 Personnel .............................. .... ...$ 79,240 Travel .................................. .... ... 11,401 6 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.
NO.

22-294 1 2 3 4 Contractual Services.................... ... ....$ 30,000 OCE ...................................... .... .. 10,000 Fixed Assets............................ .... .... -0- (13) Office of Personnel.

5 The sum of $263,623, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the 6 operations of the Office of Personnel during the fiscal year 2024.
7 The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel ............................. .... ....$ 236,023 Travel ............................... .... ...... 14,400 Contractual Services................... .... ..... 1,700 OCE ..................................... .... ... 11,500 Fixed Assets............................. .... ... -0- Section 3.

Operating Expenses of the Legislative 14 Branch.


The sum of $7,623,044, or so much thereof as may be 15 necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the 16 Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 17 30, 2024, for the operations of the Legislative Branch of the 18 National Government during fiscal year 2024.

The sum appropriated 19 by this section shall be apportioned as follows: 20 (1) Speaker and Members.
21 $4,000,332, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the 22 operations of the Office of the Speaker and Members of the 23 Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia during fiscal year 24 2024.

The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 25 follows: 7 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.
NO.

22-294 Personnel ................................ .... .$ 846,520 Travel .................................. ... ...$ 664,212 Contractual Services................... .... ..... 2,489,600 OCE ................................... .... .....

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

7 $3,122,712, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the 8 operations of the Congress staff offices during fiscal year 9 2024.
The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 10 follows: Personnel ............................... .... ..$ 1,851,712 Travel................................... .... ... 200,000 Contractual Services..................... .... ... 752,000 OCE..................................... .... .... 319,000 Fixed Assets............................. .... ... -0- (3) Congress Delegation Offices.
17 $500,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the 18 operations of the Congress delegation offices during the fiscal 19 year 2024.

The sum appropriated is apportioned as follows: (i) Kosrae Delegation Office...............$ 70,000 (ii) Pohnpei Delegation Office.............. 140,000 (iii) Chuuk Delegation Office............... 210,000 (iv) Yap Delegation Office.................. 80,000 Section 4.

Operating Expenses of the National Judicial 25 Branch.
The sum of $2,320,149, or so much thereof as may be 8 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.

22-294 1 necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the 2 Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending 3 September 30, 2024, for the operations of the Judicial Branch of 4 the National Government during the fiscal year 2024.
The sum 5 appropriated by this section shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel................................. .... .$ 1,471,345 Travel................................. .... ..... 128,554 Contractual Services.................... .... .... 472,200 OCE..................................... .... .... 248,050 Fixed Assets............................. .... ... -0- Section 5.

Operating Expenses of the National Public 12 Auditor.
The sum of $1,337,361, or so much thereof as may be 13 necessary, is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the 14 Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending 15 September 30, 2024, for the operations of the National Office of 16 the Public Auditor and for the National Public Auditor’s Chuuk 17 Office.
The sum appropriated by this section shall be apportioned 18 as follows: Personnel ........................... .... ......$ 1,032,761 Travel.................................. .... .... 111,220 Contractual Services................... .... ..... 126,000 OCE...................................... .... ... 67,400 Fixed Assets............................. .... ... -0- Section 6.

Operating Expenses of Agencies, Boards, Authorities, and Commissions of the National Government.
9 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.

22-294 1 The sum of $3,625,285, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is 2 hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the Federated States 3 of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, for 4 the operations of the following boards, commissions and agencies 5 during the fiscal year 2024.
The sum appropriated by this section 6 shall be apportioned as follows: 7 (1) National Oceanic Resource Management Authority 8 (NORMA).

9 The sum of $1,397,572, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 10 for the operations of NORMA for the fiscal year 2024.
The sum 11 appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel ............................ .... .....$ 953,903 Travel.................................. .... .... 156,558 Contractual Services.................... .... .... 200,741 OCE..................................... .... .... 86,370 Fixed Assets............................ .... .... -0- (2) Board of Regents (COM-FSM).
18 The sum of $120,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 19 the operations of the Board of Regents, COM-FSM during the fiscal 20 year 2024.

The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 21 follows: 22 23 24 25 Personnel................................ .... ..$ Travel.................................... .... ..
Contractual Services...................... .... .. -0- -0- -0- OCE...................................... ... ...$ 120,000 10 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.

22-294 1 2 Fixed Assets............................ .... .... -0- (3) FSM Banking Board.

3 The sum of $278,634, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 4 the operations of FSM Banking Board during the fiscal year 2024.
5 The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel ................................. .... $ 146,341 Travel..................................... .... .

67,781 Contractual Services..................... .... ... 39,402 OCE....................................... .... .. 25,110 Fixed Assets............................. .... ... -0- (4) FSM Insurance Board.
12 The sum of $646,912, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 13 the operations of FSM Insurance Board during the fiscal year 2024.
14 The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as follows: Personnel ................................ .... .$ 206,597 Travel................................... .... ... 61,136 Contractual Services.................... .... .... 347,175 OCE....................................... .... .. 32,004 Fixed Assets............................. .... ... -0- (5) FSM Postal Services.
21 The sum of $1,182,167, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 22 for the operations of the National Postal Services during the 23 fiscal year 2024.

The sum appropriated herein shall be 24 apportioned as follows: 25 Personnel................................ .... ..$ 767,978 11 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.
NO.

22-294 Travel.................................... .... .. 52,168 Contractual Services..................... .... ... 183,636 OCE....................................... .... .. 178,385 Fixed Assets.............................. .... .. -0- Section 7.

Special Programs.
Special Programs.

The sum of $702,205, or so 6 much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated from the 7 General Fund of the Federated States of Micronesia for the fiscal 8 year ending September 30, 2024, for the following special 9 programs during fiscal year 2024.

The sum appropriated by this 10 section shall be apportioned as follows: 11 (1) National Election Office.
12 The sum of $702,205, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for 13 the operations of National Election Office during the fiscal year 14 2024.
The sum appropriated herein shall be apportioned as 15 follows: Personnel................................ ... ...$ 421,490 Travel................................... ... .... 114,266 Contractual Services.................... ... ..... 69,486 OCE....................................... ... ... 96,963 Fixed Assets............................. ... .... -0- Section 8.

Grants, Subsidies and Contributions.


The sum of 22 $12,700,137, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby 23 appropriated from the General Fund of the Federated States of 24 Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, for the 25 following grants, subsidies and contributions during fiscal year 12 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.

22-294 1 2024.
NO.

22-294 1 2024.

The sum appropriated by this section shall be apportioned 2 as follows: 3 4 (1) Office of the President.

(a) Asia Pacific Inst.


Broadcasting Dev 5 (AIBD)............................................. $ 4,500 (b) Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) (c) Pacific Island News Association (PINA) (d) Asia Pacific Investment ............. 800 350 250 (e) Former Presidents’ Allowance ........ 90,000 (f) Joint Committee on Compact Review 11 and Planning (JCRP)................................. 671,982 12 13 14 15 (g) Presidential Inauguration ........... 50,000 (2) Department of Foreign Affairs.
(a) Pacific Is.

Forum Secretariat.
57,000 (b) Secretariat of the Pacific 16 Community (SPC) .................................... 17 18 65,000 (c) UN Economic and Social Commission 19 for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).................... 5,000 (d) UN Membership Fee .................. 50,000 (e) East West Center ..................... 5,000 (f) Cotonou Membership Fee (ACP) ........ 17,000 (g) SPC Office Space ..................... 47,070 (h) SIS Program .......................... 10,000 (i) IOM Membership Fee ................. $ 600 13 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.
NO.

22-294 (j) SPC Host Grant ...................... 20,000 (k) UN Multi-Country interim office lease 30,960 (3) Department of Finance and Administration.
(a) CTA-OCO Membership Fee .............. 10,000 (b) Maintenance Fee for Financial 6 Management System................................... 55,000 7 8 (c) PITTA – CTA ......................... 5,000 (d) ADB, IMF & Budget Finance Policy 9 Consultations....................................... 25,000 10 (e) Macro Economist Advisor/Grant Writer 11 And Negotiator .................................... 200,000 (f) Global Forum Membership Fees ........ 26,000 (g) PFTAC Membership Fees ............... 20,000 (h) CTA Conference ...................... 35,000 (i) Tax Compliance ...................... 25,000 (j) FSM Trust Fund Board ................ 50,000 (k) Finance Conference .................. 75,000 (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 (d) FAO ................................ 6,800 (e) National Association of State 24 Foresters.......................................... 530 25 (f) SPC Matching Fund ................. $ 60,000 14 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.
NO.

22-294 (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 Community ........ 30,000 (l) Convention on Biological Diversity .
1,000 (m) International Fund for 8 Agriculture Development............................ 500 9 10 11 (n) UNIDO .............................. 1,000 (o) Micronesian Island Forum Membership Fee -0- (p) Micronesia Association for Sustainable 12 Aquaculture........................................ 50,000 13 14 15 (q) Micronesia Island Forum ............ 15,000 (r) Micronesia Challenges Endowment Fund 100,000 (s) International Coconut Community 16 (Annual Fees & Prior Years)........................ 18,000 (5) Department of Health and Social Affairs.
(a) UN Fund for Population Activity (UNFPA) 3,000 (b) World Health Organization .......... 4,790 (c) PIHOA .............................. 20,000 (d) Association of Territorial Health 22 Org (ASTHO)........................................ 4,000 23 (e) National Board of Nursing & Medical 24 Licensing ......................................... 60,000 25 (f) FSM Red Cross ..................... $ 70,000 15 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.
NO.

22-294 (g) UNICEF (Vaccine & TB Drugs) ........ 50,000 (h) UN – FSM Women (CEDAW) ............. 1,000 (i) Drug Quality Testing ............... 3,000 (6) Department of Education.

(a) Aid for Non-Public School.


........... 1,000,000 (b) Financial Assistance/FSM Students 7 CMI.................................................. 30,000 (c) Financial Assistance/FSM Students PCC 50,000 (d) National Scholarship Fund ............ 3,000,000 (e) National Close-Up Local Program ...... 75,000 (f) National Merit Scholarship ........... 275,000 (7) Department of Transportation, Communication 13 & Infrastructure.
14 15 (a) Asia Pacific Telecommunity .......... 6,075 (b) International Telecommunications 16 Union (ITU)......................................... 12,934 17 (c) International Civil Aviation Org.
18 (ICAO).............................................. 22,538 19 20 21 (d) FSM Capital Energy (Utilities) ...... 300,000 (e) Micronesian Shipping Commission ..... 25,000 (f) Fueling & Provisions of Caroline 22 Voyager and Navigator and Nat’l vessels............. 672,915 23 (g) FSM National Gov’t Computer Network 24 Bandwidth contract.................................. 90,960 25 (8) Department of Justice.
16 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.
22-294 1 2 3 (a) Kosrae JLEA ........................ $ 100,000 (b) Pohnpei JLEA ........................ 125,000 (c) Chuuk JLEA, of which $75,000 shall be 4 used for Weno Municipal Police...................... 150,000 (d) Yap JLEA ............................ 62,500 (e) Police Academy ...................... 100,000 (f) DOJ Fuel Subsidy .................... 275,000 (g) INTERPOL Membership Activities ...... 7,500 (h) Ammunitions for side arms & long 10 rifles.............................................. 12,500 11 (i) Organization for the Prohibition 12 of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) including arrears........ 3,918 13 (k) Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban 14 Treaty Organization (CTBT) including arrears........ 6,854 15 16 17 18 (9) Department of DECCEM (a) UNEP ................................ (b) UN Framework Convention(UNFCC) ...... 810 325 (c) UN Convention to Combat 19 Desertification .................................... 195 20 (d) Secretariat of the Pacific 21 Region Environment Program (SPREP membership)....... 10,768 22 23 24 25 (e) Waigani Convention .................. 1,190 (f) SPREP Noumea Convention ............. 1,764 (g) Earth Day Activities ................ 15,000 (h) 10th Environment Conference .......... 20,000 17 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.
NO.

22-294 (i) Basel Convention ..................... 197 (j) Kyoto Protocol ...................... 484 (k) WMO Membership ...................... 15,000 (l) Stockholm Convention Center ......... 500 (10) Office of NACHP.
(a) UNESCO membership fee ............... 4,000 (b) NCSHPO .............................. 2,760 (c) PARBICA ............................. (d) PIALA ............................... (e) WHC ................................. (f) Library fee ......................... 100 100 54 50 (11) Congress of FSM.
(a) Staff Upgrade ....................... 25,000 (b) IPU Annual dues ..................... 12,500 (c) COFA Alliance Nat’l Network ......... 25,000 (d) Compact of Free Association 17 Historical Project.................................. 25,000 18 (12) Resources (Other Grants, Subsidies & 19 Contributions) (a) COM Board Meeting ................... 5,000 (b) COM Treaty Obligations .............. 25,000 (c) FSM Social Security ................. 1,000,000 (d) Kosrae Judiciary Subsidy ........... .
75,000 (e) Pohnpei Judiciary Subsidy.

........... 100,000 (f) Chuuk Judiciary Subsidy.. .......... $ 150,000 18 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.
22-294 1 2 3 (g) Yap Judiciary Subsidy ............... 75,000 (h) National Law Day .................... 100,000 (i) Micronesian Legal Services 4 Corporation......................................... 250,000 (j) NORMA-Forum Fisheries Agency ........ 63,000 (k) NORMA-WCPFC Membership fee .......... 434,201 (l) PNA Membership Fee .................. 10,000 (m) Independence Day Activities ......... 50,000 (n) MLFC Loan Payment ................... 260,000 (o) Single Audit fees and cost .......... 460,000 (p) Staff housing ....................... 750,000 (q) Recruitment & Repatriation .......... 106,451 Section 9.
Capital and Human Resources Development.

14 The sum of $9,473,544, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is 15 hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the Federated States 16 of Micronesia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, for 17 the following capital improvements, development programs, and 18 projects and human resources development.
Of the total amount of 19 funds appropriated herein, $1,000,000 shall be deemed to come from 20 funds available under the Compact Education Sector Grant and $ 21 1,246,022 shall be deemed to come from funds available under 22 Supplemental Education Grant.

The sum appropriated by this 23 section shall be apportioned as follows: 24 25 (1) College of Micronesia – FSM.
(a) COM-FSM – operation ................ $ 4,000,000 19 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.

22-294 (b) Fisheries Maritime Institute ........ 965,735 (c) Supplemental Education Grant ......... 689,948 (d) COM-FSM Endowment Fund ............... 500,000 (2) Department of Finance & Administration.
(a) FSM Warehouse lease & maintenance ... -0- (b) PCD Awareness & Training ............ 35,000 (c) World Bank-Capital Investment ....... 1,400,000 (3) Department of Resources & Development.
(a) R&D State and National leadership 10 conference (SNLC)................................... 75,000 11 (b) FSM Chamber of Commerce/support to 12 COC.................................................. 50,000 13 14 (c) FSM Livestock improvement program .... 50,000 (4) Department of Transportation, Communication and 15 Infrastructure.
16 (a) FSM national government computer 17 network.............................................. 50,000 18 (b) FSM National Government Facility 19 Improvement and Renovations ......................... 60,000 20 21 (5) Department of Justice.
(a) Anti-human trafficking enforcement, 22 campaign and investigation.......................... 50,000 23 24 25 (b) Victims Shelter & Services .......... 125,000 (c) Patrol Boat maintenance ............. 200,000 (d) Satellite phone & billing .......... $ 10,000 20 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.

22-294 1 2 3 (6) DECCEM.

(a) National & State Table Top Exercise .


30,000 (b) Outer island trip assessment on 4 Climate change & Risk Management.................... 40,000 5 (c) National Joint 5th Platform for 6 Environment and Risk Resilience..................... 20,000 7 8 (d) International Disaster Day .......... 12,000 (e) 4th Disaster Risk Management 9 Environment Conference.............................. 20,000 10 11 (7) National Election.
(a) Voter ID Card & New Voter 12 Registration Project................................ 25,000 (8) Department of Health and Social Affairs.

(a) Medical Specialist Team ............. 50,000 (c) MOE – BHWP Med ...................... 22,200 (d) Electronic Health Record System ..... 35,000 (e) Youth in Sports ..................... 50,000 (9) Department of Education.
(a) NDOE Year 3 Project (SEG) ........... 556,074 (b) CTE Teacher Training on Policies 21 Curriculum & Standard............................... 56,910 22 (c) Vernacular Language Arts (VLA) 23 curriculum standards and benchmarks training........ 60,677 24 (d) Assessment & Research Project to 25 revive NMCT........................................ $ -0- 21 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.
NO.

22-294 1 2 (10) NORMA (a) Commemoration of World Tuna Day – 3 2022................................................ 70,000 4 5 (b) Hosting WCPFC, TTC & SC ............. 10,000 (c) Internship for students in the 6 area of fisheries management........................ 5,000 7 8 (d) T3 Monitoring ....................... 150,000 Section 10.

Employment Ceilings.
The maximum number of 9 positions for each branch and agency of the National 10 Government of the Federated States of Micronesia for fiscal year 11 2024shall be as follows: (1) Executive Branch ..................... .. 730 (2) Legislative Branch ................ ... ... (3) Judiciary Branch .................. ... ... (4) Public Auditor ................... ... .... 69 46 24 (5) Agencies (a) National Oceanic Resource 18 Management Authority ................................ 29 (b) FSM Banking Board................ .... 4 (c) FSM Insurance Board ............. ... (d) National Postal Services......... ... (6) Special Programs (a) National Election Office......... 6 41 14 Section 11.
Reprogramming.

Reprogramming of funds into or 25 from the personnel budget line item shall not be permitted.

The 22 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.
NO.

22-294 1 President, Speaker and Chief Justice may reprogram up to 10 2 percent to or from the funds appropriated in sections 2 3 (Operating expenses of the Executive Branch), 3 (Operating 4 expenses of the Legislative Branch), and 4 (Operating expenses of 5 the National Judicial Branch).
Reprogramming of funds within a 6 department, office or agency shall be effected by the head of 7 such department, office or agency by specifying in writing to the 8 Secretary of the Department of Finance and Administration of the 9 FSM National Government, the accounts for which funding is either 10 increased or decreased.
Reprogramming other than as specified 11 herein is not permitted, and more specifically, reprogramming 12 into or out of any line item contained in section 8 (Grants, 13 Subsidies and Contributions) or section 9 (Investment: Capital 14 and Human Resources) is not permitted.

The President shall 15 report to Congress within one month of the last day of each 16 financial quarter all amounts reprogrammed inter or intra a 17 department, office or agency.

18 Section 12.
18 Section 12.

Allotment and management of funds and lapse 19 dates.

20 21 (1) General provisions.

(a) All funds appropriated by this act shall be 22 allotted, managed, administered and accounted for in accordance 23 with applicable law, including, but not limited to, the Financial 24 Management Act of 1979.
25 (b) The allottees shall be responsible for ensuring 23 of 25 ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ C.B.

NO.

22-294 1 that these funds, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are used 2 solely for the purposes specified in this act, and that no 3 obligations are incurred in excess of the sums appropriated.

4 (2) Allottees.
The allottees of the funds appropriated by 5 this act are as follows: 6 (a) Section 2 - the allottee of these funds shall be 7 the President of the Federated States of Micronesia; 8 (b) Section 3 - the allottee of these funds shall be 9 the Speaker of the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia; 10 (c) Section 4 – the allottee of these funds shall be 11 the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Federated States of 12 Micronesia; 13 (d) Section 5 – the allottee of these funds shall be 14 the Public Auditor of the Federated States of Micronesia; 15 (e) Sections 6 through 9 - the allottee of these funds 16 shall be the President of the Federated States of Micronesia; 17 PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that for the following subsections of sections 8 18 through 9 of this act: 19 (i) Section 8, subsection (11)(a) through (c) – the 20 allottee of these funds is the Speaker of the FSM Congress; 21 (ii) Section 8, subsection (12)(d) through (g) - the 22 allottee of these funds shall be the Chief Justice of the 23 respective State Supreme Court; and 24 (ii) Section 9 (1)(a) through (d) – the allottee of 25 these funds is the President of the COM-FSM.
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22-294 1 (3) Lapse date.

The authority of the allottees to obligate 2 funds appropriated by this act shall lapse as of September 30, 3 2024; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the authority to obligate funds 4 appropriated under section 9 of this act shall not lapse.

5 Section 13.
5 Section 13.

This act shall become law upon approval by the 6 President of the Federated States of Micronesia or upon its becoming 7 law without such approval.

8 9 Date: 4/5/23_ Introduced by: /s/ for Joseph J. Urusemal___ Florencio S. Harper (by request) 25 of 25