The following legislative committees will be meeting this week:
- House Committee on Commerce and Tourism
- Today, Monday, February 25 @ 1:30pm in the Speaker’s Conference Room, to discuss House Bill 16-4, to amend Public Law 12-61 governing the deposit security required of CNMI government funds; and
- Tuesday, February 26, @ 2:00pm, in the House Chamber, with the Marianas Visitors Authority to discuss MVA operations and other issues.
- House Committee on Judicial and Governmental Operations
- Wednesday, February 27, @ 9am in the House Chamber, with Deputy Secretary of Labor Cinta Kaipat, to discuss the newly promulgated regulations of Public Law 15-108 (the new local labor law).
- Senate Committee on Fiscal Affairs
- Tuesday, February 26, @ 2:00pm, in the Senate Chamber, to hold budget hearings with the following agencies: Commonwealth Utilities Corporation; Commonwealth Development Authority; Commonwealth Ports Authority; CNMI Group Health and Life Insurance Trust Fund; Northern Marianas Housing Corporation; the Department of Commerce; the Marianas Public Lands Trust; Department of Public Lands; and the Retirement Fund.
Also, both the House and Senate will be conducting sessions in their respective chambers this Thursday, February 28. The House will be convening at 9am in the House Chamber; the Senate will meet at 10am. Agendas will be sent out shortly.
As a reminder, while we continue to hope that a fully functional and updated official website for the Legislature will be up and running soon — all introduced bills of the 16th Legislature are available at the House Floor Leader Joseph Camacho’s website, www.camachocnmi.com and all email announcements that I have sent out thus far are available at www.tinasablan.com/forum .