SAIPAN — The Senate will convene the first day of its Fourth Special Session on June 24, with a wide-ranging agenda that includes utility-related appropriations tied to Super Typhoon Sinlaku recovery, the proposed fiscal 2027 budget and dozens of bills and nominations.
In a public meeting notice and session call, the Office of the Senate Clerk said the session will convene at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 24, in the Senate Chamber at the Vice Speaker Jesus P. Mafnas Memorial Building on Capitol Hill.
The agenda lists several measures dealing with the Commonwealth Utilities Corporation. Three conference committee reports recommend passage of House Bills 24-89, 24-91 and 24-96, which would appropriate dividends collected by the Commonwealth Economic Development Authority from CUC, along with tobacco settlement funds, for Sinlaku disaster relief in the First and Second Senatorial Districts and for tourism recovery through the Marianas Visitors Authority.
The agenda also includes Governor David M. Apatang’s proposed fiscal 2027 budget, transmitted to the Legislature in May, and a governor’s message conveying Executive Order 2026-007, which authorizes CUC to enter into contracts for recovery operations after the typhoon.
Among the bills set for final reading are measures to rename the House of Justice building, to limit the Office of the Attorney General’s authority to issue investigative subpoenas, to establish higher-fine traffic zones, to create a police reserve unit within the Department of Public Safety and to rename Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services leadership titles.
The agenda does not list the independent valuation and third-party audit measures, House Bills 24-87 and 24-88, that Representative Vincent R. Aldan has said are stalled in the Senate. No new date for action on those bills has been announced.
