Title 48, Territories and Insular PossessionsRelease 119-102
§1423b Selection and Qualification of Members; Officers; Rules and Regulations; Quorum
Title 48 › CHAPTER 8A — GUAM › SUBCHAPTER III — THE LEGISLATURE › § 1423b
Summary
Legislature selects members and officers, makes chapter-following rules, and keeps a journal. A quorum is a simple majority; a bill passes only at a meeting with a quorum by a majority present and a recorded yea-or-nay vote.
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Title 48, §1423b
Territories and Insular Possessions, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
The legislature shall be the judge of the selection and qualification of its own members. It shall choose from its members its own officers, determine its rules and procedure, not inconsistent with this chapter, and keep a journal. The quorum of the legislature shall consist of a simple majority of its members. No bill shall become a law unless it shall have been passed at a meeting, at which a quorum was present, by the affirmative vote of a majority of the members present and voting, which vote shall be by yeas and nays.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1998—Pub. L. 105–291 substituted “a simple majority” for “eleven”. 1968—Pub. L. 90–497 inserted a quorum requirement, provided that a quorum of the legislature consist of eleven of its members, and made presence of a quorum requisite to passage of a law.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
of 1968 Amendment Pub. L. 90–497, § 6(b), Sept. 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 846, provided that the amendment made by that section is effective on date of enactment of Pub. L. 90–497, which was approved Sept. 11, 1968.
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Citation
48 U.S.C. § 1423b
Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102