No new program created by the Legislature or by any department, commission or agency shall have force or effect unless funding for such program is appropriated from local funds to finance the cost of implementing such program.

SOURCE: GC § 5162 added by P.L. 15-048:V:6.

NOTE: 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).