This is to announce the following:

• The Saipan and Northern Islands Delegation will be holding a session on Monday, April 21 @ 9:00am in the House Chamber.  Click here for the draft agenda.
• The House Standing Committee on Natural Resources is holding public hearings on House Legislative Initiatives 16-3, 16-4, 16-5, and 16-8 in Rota, on April 17 and 18 at the Rota Roundhouse; and in Tinian on April 22 and 23 at the Tinian Elementary School cafeteria.  Public hearings on both islands begin at 6pm.  For more information contact Chairman Ramon Tebuteb at 664-8983.  The initiatives are available online at the CNMI Legislature’s website, www.cnmileg.gov.mp, or at Floor Leader Joseph Camacho’s website at www.camachocnmi.com .
• The House Committee on Health, Education, and Welfare will have a joint meeting with the Senate on April 25 @ 10:30am in the House Chamber to receive the annual actuarial report of the Retirement Fund. 
• The House and Senate will be meeting to receive the Governor’s annual State of the Commonwealth address, and the Resident Representative’s annual State of the Washington Office report on Friday, May 2 in the Multipurpose Center beginning @ 9am
• Finally, the House was in Special Session this week, and so my weekly press conferences have resumed.  The next press conference will be tomorrow, Friday, April 18 @ 10am in my office.  Topics of discussion will include a review of the session this week and a bill that proposes to amend the CNMI immigration code to grant longer-term permits for qualified foreign national workers (soon to be prefiled).  

I will also be announcing the first quarterly public forum on the State of the Legislature, scheduled for Tuesday, April 29 at the Multipurpose Center, beginning at 6pm.