Title 2, Legislative Branch

The legislature created by the Organic Act of Guam shall be known and designated as, ‘I Liheslaturan Guåhan.’ All references in this Code and the laws, rules and regulations of Guam to the Guam Legislature shall be understood to refer to I Liheslaturan Guåhan. SOURCE: GC § 1000. …

The regular session of the Guam Legislature convening on the second Monday in January in the year 1951 shall be designated the “First Guam Legislature, 1951 (First) Regular Session”; the regular session convening on the second Monday in January in the year 1952 shall be designate…

Succeeding Legislatures shall be designated in the same manner except that each newly elected Legislature shall be known and designated by successive number; that is the Legislature elected in 1952 shall be known and designated as the “Second Guam Legislature” and each Legislatur…

Special sessions of any Legislature shall be known and designated as First, Second, Third, et seq., special session following the designation of the number of the Legislature; that is the first special session of the First Guam Legislature would be designated “First Guam Legislat…

Senators elected to the Guam Legislature shall hold office for a term of two (2) years and until their successors are elected and qualified. The term of Senators elected to the Guam Legislature shall commence on the first Monday of January following the date of election. SOURCE: …

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, legislative compensation and allowances shall be: (a) [Repealed.] (b) From the date of enactment of this Subsection (b) and until the end of Fiscal Year 2003, the annual salary of Senators of I Mina'Bente Siete Na Liheslaturan Guåhan [t…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule or regulation, policy, or procedure, the salary of each member of I Liheslaturan Guåhan [the Guam Legislature] shall be paid at the rate of Fifty- five Thousand Three Hundred Three Dollars ($55,303) per annum; and the salary of the…

At the commencement of the first regular session of each new Guam Legislature, the Chief Justice of Guam or in his absence, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, shall upon the convening of the Legislature, sit as Presiding Officer until the election of a permanent Presiding…

Upon the convening of such Legislature, it shall be the duty of the Presiding Officer, and he shall have the power, to call the members to order, and call the roll of the members in alphabetical order. As the names are called, the members elect shall present their certificates an…

Upon the conclusion of the roll call as hereinabove set forth, the Presiding Officer shall cause an oath to be administered in the form hereinafter set forth to each of the members elect. SOURCE: GC § 1007.

The Oath referred to in § 1109 above shall be given as follows: “I solemnly swear (or affirm) in the presence of Almighty God that I will well and faithfully support the Constitution of the United States, the laws of the United States applicable to Guam and the laws of Guam, and …

The presiding officer shall, after the administration of the Oath referred to in § 1110 above, act as Presiding Officer of the Legislature for the purpose of conducting an election for a Speaker of the Legislature having for this purpose the power to preserve order and decorum an…

Upon the election of the Speaker, the Legislature shall proceed to organize, adopting rules governing its procedure and with the election of a Vice-Speaker, Legislative Secretary and Secretary General of the Guam delegation to the Asian Pacific Parliamentarians Union, who shall b…

Legislation. Neither the Legislative Counsel nor any partner, other business associate, or employee of the Legislative Counsel shall oppose or urge legislation. SOURCE: GC § 1010.1.

Standing rules in force and existence at the adjournment sine die of a legislature shall continue until changed and shall govern the organization of the next legislature. SOURCE: GC § 1011.

A majority vote of the members present (a quorum being present) shall be required for the election of each officer of the legislature. SOURCE: GC § 1012.

(a) Upon the convening of any regular or special session of the Legislature, except the first session of a new Legislature, it shall be the duty of the Speaker to administer the oath provided in § 1110 to any new legislator or legislators who may have been elected to fill a vacan…

The regular session of the Guam Legislature convening on the second Monday in January in the year 1951 shall be designated the First Guam Legislature, 1951 Regular Session; the regular session convening on the second Monday in January in the year 1952 shall be designated as First…

(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 sessio…

Thereof. (a) The Legislature, in addition to the attaches referred to in § 1112 of this Chapter, may employ such other employees as it may from time to time require. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Personnel Law and the Compensation Law, the methods of appointment and promo…

(a) The employees and attaches of the Legislative Branch are entitled to the same retirement benefits, subject to the same contributions and conditions as employees of the Executive Branch of the government of Guam as provided by 4 GCA Chapter 8. (b) Elected officials who have re…

(a) There is hereby created a special fund to be known as the “Legislative Operations Fund,” such fund to be administered by the Legislature. All moneys appropriated for the operation of the Guam Legislature shall be paid directly to the Fund and disbursed by the Legislature. (b)…

The total budget of the Guam legislature shall at no time exceed two percent (2%) of the Government of Guam revenue projections set for the same fiscal year, as enacted into law in the Government of Guam Budget Act for that fiscal year. The legislature must set a revenue projecti…

The Committee on Rules at its discretion may furnish to the legislative bodies of the United States, any of its states, territories, possessions and their political subdivisions, the District of Columbia, Canada and the provinces of Canada, any of the codes or other legislative p…

There is hereby created a special fund to be known as the ‘Legislature Capital Improvement Fund’, such fund to be administered by the Legislature. All money appropriated for capital improvements and additions for the Legislature building and for the provision of offices while suc…

At the commencement of each daily session of the Legislature, the members shall be required to sing the Guam Hymn in Chamorro. SOURCE: Added by P.L. 21-070:2 (Nov. 27, 1991).

I Liheslaturan Guåhan shall create, construct, lease or purchase a new building or buildings or refurbish, repair, or renovate the Old Legislative Hall and the Manuel F. L. Guerrero Building for its session hall, public meetings, activities and offices of its members, their staff…

(a) To express unending and never forgotten gratitude by the people of Guam, I Milåyan Mås Takhilo’ Na Sakrafisu is hereby established and shall be presented to the family members of individuals killed in action in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, Operation Desert S…