Title 5 — Government Operations

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no department, agency or instrumentality of the government of Guam, including all autonomous agencies and instrumentalities, shall charge another branch, department or agency of the government of Guam, including the Guam Legislature…

Magnetic Media Format. Any information, that is stored on or will be stored on magnetic media, available under the Freedom of Information Act, as provided for in Article 1 of this Chapter, shall be made available to the general public on magnetic media. SOURCE: Added by P.L. 24-3…

Format. An agency may make information, covered by Article 1 of this Chapter that is not stored on magnetic media, available to the general public on magnetic media and charge a fee for such service. Such fees shall be based on the cost of such services, and subject to the provis…

For purposes of this Section, magnetic media shall be defined as three and one-half inch (3.5") high-density floppy diskettes and CD ROM disks. To fulfill the requirements of § 10301 of this Article, Agencies only need make information that consist of computer files that total mo…

Unless otherwise provided for herein, information shall be made available in the following formats: (a) Written Transcripts, Rules and Regulations, Legislation and Written Text Documents: Written transcripts, rules and regulations, legislation and written text documents shall be …

Magnetic Media. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no department, agency or instrumentality of the government of Guam, including all autonomous agencies and instrumentalities, shall charge another branch, department or agency of the government of Guam, including I Li…

Government. (a) Every department or agency of the Executive Branch of the government of Guam, inclusive of all autonomous agencies, the Department of Education, the Guam Visitors Bureau, the Guam Economic Development and Commerce Authority, the Guam Waterworks Authority and the G…

The following information must be posted, at a minimum, on each official website or homepage required pursuant to Section 10305 above. (a) Notice of all meetings, hearings and public events as required by public law and for such duration as required by public law and containing s…

There are no special requirements for the format or construction of official Home Pages. Each Branch of government shall make every possible effort to ensure that official Home Pages use text and graphics formats that can be easily loaded and read by most Web browsers. For comple…

The Guam Telephone Authority shall, within ninety (90) days of the enactment hereof, make its annual phone directory of published numbers available on the Internet and on CD ROM. To the extent that funds allow for, the Guam Telephone Authority shall make arrangements with compani…

Beginning with I Mina’Bente Kuattro Na Liheslaturan Guåhan, all bills passed by I Liheslaturan Guåhan shall be posted on I Liheslaturan Guåhan’s Official Home Page. Bills signed into law or vetoed by I Maga’lahen Guåhan shall include I Maga’lahen Guåhan’s message. In the event a …

Custody of the Department of Land Management. Within one (1) year of the enactment hereof, the Department of Land Management shall publish a complete set of the maps of Guam in their custody on CD ROM. Existing maps in magnetic media format shall be made available pursuant to the…

Detractions. No official Home Page required herein may be used to endorse or detract from any elected official, candidate for an elected office or the platform of any elected official or candidate for elected office. SOURCE: Added by P.L. 24-301:2 (Dec. 18, 1998).

Accounts with the Guam Power Authority. Within six (6) calendar months of the enactment hereof, the Guam Energy Office shall publish on its website a listing of all government of Guam meters registered with the Guam Power Authority, and the corresponding fiscal quarterly account …

Temporary Labor Certifications approved by I Maga’lahi (the Governor). Within six (6) calendar months of the enactment hereof, the Guam Department of Labor shall publish and update on a quarterly basis on its website a listing of all temporary labor certifications issued and atte…

Services Via the Internet. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all entities of the government of Guam, inclusive of autonomous agencies, shall provide for the acceptance of applications, filings and forms for services through their official website. If the nature of an ap…

Within six (6) months of the enactment hereof, the Guam Board of Medical Examiners shall publish, and update on a quarterly basis on its website, a listing of licenses issued pursuant to Article 2 (Physicians Practice Act) of Chapter 12, Title 10, Guam Code Annotated, including t…

This Act shall be cited as the “Public Meetings During Emergencies Act.”

(a) “Electronic” means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. (b) “Emergency declaration” means a declaration of emergency issued pursuant to the laws of Guam. (c) “Meeting” has the same meaning as…

(a) This Act applies to the conduct of a virtual meeting only while an emergency declaration is in effect. (b) This Act does not limit or supersede any other law authorizing a public body to permit a member of the public body to participate, or a member of the public to observe o…

(a) A public body may conduct a virtual meeting while an emergency declaration that applies to all or part of the jurisdiction of the public body is in effect if the emergency declaration prohibits, limits, or has the effect of prohibiting or limiting an in-person meeting of the …

(a) A public body conducting a virtual meeting, to the extent practicable, shall conduct the meeting using a means compatible with assistive technology commonly used by individuals with disabilities and that facilitates the accommodation needs of individuals with disabilities to …

(a) If the open meetings law requires that the public be able to observe contemporaneously all or part of a meeting of a public body: (1) the public body shall permit the public to observe contemporaneously a virtual meeting, or the part of a virtual meeting that would be require…

(a) If the laws of this state or a political subdivision of this state or a rule, practice, or procedure adopted by the public body requires that members of the public be permitted to participate in a meeting of the public body, the public body, to the extent practicable, shall p…

In addition to any other requirement concerning notice a public body must give for a meeting of the public body, notice of a virtual meeting must specify: (a) that the meeting will be a virtual meeting; (b) the technology to be used for the meeting; (c) how members of the public …

This Chapter shall be known and cited as “The Government Reorganization and Program Performance Improvement Act of 2012.”

For the purposes of this Chapter: (a) COMRIGHT-21 or the Commission shall mean The Modernization and Rightsizing Commission of the government of Guam for the Twenty-first (21st) Century and beyond. (b) Entity shall mean any combination of all departments, bureaus, agencies, commi…

Commission. There is hereby established The Modernization and Rightsizing Commission of the government of Guam for the Twenty-first (21st) Century and Beyond (COMRIGHT-21).

The purpose of this Chapter is to promote simplicity, economy, efficiency, modernization, and streamlining of the delivery of services by all departments, bureaus, agencies, commissions, or other instrumentalities, whether autonomous, semi-autonomous, or non- autonomous in the Ex…

Internal Functions and Personnel. All administrators, directors or equivalent executives of all executive branch entities shall, within ninety (90) days of enactment of this Act, review its organization’s purpose, structure and areas of responsibilities and all mandates relative …

The Commission shall serve as the clearinghouse for all recommendations submitted by individual entities and provide the processes for the eventual disposition of such recommendations.

The COMRIGHT-21 Commission shall be comprised of seven (7) members as follows: (a) I Maga’lahen Guåhan or his designated representative who must be member of his senior policy team or Cabinet; (b) The Compiler of Laws, who shall serve as the Chairperson in the absence of I Maga’l…

(a) I Maga’lahen Guåhan shall coordinate the inaugural swearing- in of all members of COMRIGHT-21 and schedule the Commission’s first meeting within thirty (30) days of passage of this Act. (b) The administrative support function of COMRIGHT-21 shall be assigned by I Maga’lahen G…

(a) COMRIGHT-21 shall review the recommendations of the heads of all departments, entities to amend, repeal or enact statutes relative to their respective entity as contained in § 12102.1(a)(b)(c). (b) Upon review, the Commission shall conduct public hearings, pursuant to the pro…

COMRIGHT-21 is authorized to obtain directly from any executive department, bureau, agency, board, commission, office, public corporation, or instrumentality of the government of Guam via written requests, any and all information needed to execute its functions. All requests for …

If any provision of this Act or its application to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this Act which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of t…

As used in this Chapter: (a) Sanitization is the general process of removing data from storage media, such that there is reasonable assurance that the data may not be easily retrieved or reconstructed. (b) Storage media refers to electronic media including, but not limited to, ha…

The Director of the Department of Administration (DOA), the Chief Procurement Officer of the General Services Agency (GSA), and the Chief Information Officer of the Bureau of Information Technology (BIT), or their designees, shall be jointly responsible for conducting a review of…

The Director of DOA, the Chief Procurement Officer of GSA, and the Chief Information Officer of BIT, or their designees, shall be responsible for developing a single process to be used and rules to be COL08062012 followed in ensuring the proper sanitization of storage media for a…

It shall be the responsibility of the Director of DOA, the Chief Procurement Officer of GSA, and the Chief Information Officer of BIT to conduct a joint cost assessment on the procurement of equipment or software which sanitizes storage media for all computers and digital copier …

Any digital copier machines or digital copier machine services procured after September 31, 2012, shall include equipment or software which erases storage media. The Director of DOA, the Chief Procurement Officer of GSA, and the Chief Information Officer of BIT, or their designee…

There is created within the Office of I Maga’håga/Maga’låhi the Marianas Cyber Security Working Group (Group) which shall be headed by I Maga’håga/Maga’låhi, with administrative support provided by the Mariana Regional Fusion Center. 2024 NOTE: Reference to the “Governor” replace…

The Group shall meet on a monthly basis to discuss issues involving cyber security and its heightened priority within Guam. It shall receive periodic briefings from the Mariana Regional Fusion Center on best practices available to implement cyber security measures and secure mana…

The Group’s membership shall include I Maga’håga/Maga’låhi, or her/his designee; the Speaker of I Liheslaturan Guåhan, or her/his designee; the Chief Justice of Guam, or his/her designee; the General Manager, Guam Power Authority, or his/her designee; the General Manager, Guam Wa…

Select information presented by the Mariana Regional Fusion Center shall be disseminated to the general public by no less than ninety (90) business days to allow the information given to go through vulnerability patching before being shared. The reporting of information dissemina…

(a) “Commission” means the Guam Criminal Justice Automation Commission. (b) “Criminal justice information” means all criminal justice information system data. The term includes: criminal history record information; biographic data; biometric data; identity history; person, organi…

There is hereby established the Criminal Justice Automation Commission (Commission), which shall oversee Guam’s Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS). (a) Commission Leadership. The Commission shall be co-chaired by: (1) the Chief Justice of Guam or his or her designee; and …

The Commission shall have the authority to: (a) Manage, operate, and maintain the collection, warehousing, and timely dissemination of criminal justice information to departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the Government of Guam as authorized by the Commission. (b) Devel…

There is hereby established the “Guam Artificial Intelligence Regulatory Taskforce.”

(a) “Task Force” means the Guam Artificial Intelligence Regulatory Task Force established pursuant to § 17101 of this Chapter. (b) “Artificial Intelligence” (AI) means the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems, including learning, rea…