(a) The Legislature shall convene in a new regular session at the seat of Government at 10:00 a.m. on the first Monday in January of each year. The regular session shall continue for such period as each Legislature may determine, provided, however, that in no event shall a session continue beyond midnight of the day preceding the day upon which the next regular session of the Legislature is to convene. (b) At any time when the Legislature is in recess or has adjourned and could be in session but for such recess or adjournment, either the Speaker or the Committee on Rules may summon the Legislature to meet for whatever period of time the Legislature shall deem required. A meeting called pursuant to this paragraph shall be a continuation of the regular session last convened pursuant to Paragraph (a) of this Section. (c) At any time when I Liheslaturan Guåhan is in recess or has adjourned, the Speaker and the Legislative Secretary shall be empowered to, and shall receive, any messages or communications of any kind addressed to I Liheslaturan Guåhan [Legislature] from I Maga’lahen Guåhan [Governor]. For purposes of this Paragraph, receipt of messages or communications of any kind from I Maga’lahen Guåhan to I Liheslaturan Guåhan shall occur if delivered to the Speaker or the Legislative Secretary, or to their respective offices. (d) Any business, bill or resolution pending at the final adjournment of a regular session held in an odd-numbered year shall carry over with the same status to the next regular session.
(e) No business, bill or resolution pending at the final adjournment of a special session shall carry over to any other session. (f) A session convening in an odd-numbered year shall be the first regular session of a Legislature and the session convening in the even-numbered year shall be the second regular session of the Legislature organized the preceding year. SOURCE: GC § 1015. R/R by P.L. 11-001 (Feb. 8, 1971); amended by P.L. 13-073 (Oct. 22, 1975), P.L. 13-118 (Dec. 30, 1975); R/R by P.L. 13- 120 (Dec. 31, 1975), P.L. 13-149 (June 26, 1976); P.L. 13-152 (July 1, 1976); Subsection (a) further amended by P.L. 16-120 (Dec. 17, 1982). Subsection (c) amended by P.L. 25-172:2 (Oct. 20, 2000). NOTE: The Legislative Intent stated in P.L. 25-172 states: I Liheslaturan Guåhan wishes to avoid any question or challenge as to the procedure for enacting legislation on Guam. In a recent Supreme Court of Guam decision the Court pointed out an ambiguity in Guam law regarding the distinction between a “recess” and an “adjournment.” This legislation is intended to remove said ambiguity between these two (2) terms, and not to encompass the term “adjournment sine die.”