(a) There is within the Office of I Segundu Na Maga’lahi [Lieutenant Governor] a bureau of the government of Guam which shall be known as the Guam State Clearinghouse.

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the Guam State Clearinghouse shall have exclusive purview at the Guam level over all Federal aid programs, grants, loans, contracts, contributions, appropriations, advances, direct Federal development and other Federal funding sources for the government of Guam. The Guam State Clearinghouse shall be headed by a Director, who shall be I Segundu Na Maga’lahi [the Lieutenant Governor], who shall determine the positions and
staffing pattern of the Guam State Clearinghouse.

SOURCE: GC § 5601 added by P.L. 13-149:V:1; repealed/reenacted by P.L. 17-25:III:2. Amended by P.L. 26-169:2 (Jan. 5, 2003), P.L. 31-168:1 (Jan. 4, 2012).

2017 NOTE: Subsection/subitem designations added/altered pursuant to the authority of 1 Guam Code Ann. § 1606.

COMMENT: [To original section] The Legislature does not have the power to approve, with binding effect, by resolution any matter which will have the force and effect of law. See Attorney General Opinion PCF
#85-1031; see also INS v. Chada, 103 S.Ct. 2754 (1983).

In addition, the Organic Act, § 20, provides that the Legislature does not have the power to appropriate funds which have been appropriated already by the United States Congress. See Wong v. Camina, 2 Guam Rep. 132 (1978).