The House has called a special session for tomorrow, May 1 @ 9am in the House Chamber.  

The draft agenda is attached here.  

Not on the agenda but likely to be placed for tomorrow’s session is a substitute bill for House Bill 16-79, passed by the Senate today, which proposes to:

• revise CUC’s rate structure to ensure CUC’s continuing ability to deliver vital utility services (suspending for six months PL 15-94, the rollback of the utility rates to 17 cents/kwh);
• to provide unlimited reprogramming authority to the governor and other expenditure authorities for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2008;
• to suspend earmarking of certain non-general fund revenue;
• to repeal in its entirety 4 CMC Section 1304, which pertains to the tax imposed on banks and other financial institutions, to be replaced instead by the (higher) gross business revenue tax;
• to authorize CUC to use a portion of customer security deposits to pay for its fuel expenses;
• to set the government employer contribution rate at 11% for Fiscal Year 2008;
• to increase certain government services fees;
• and for other purposes.