Legislative Compensation and Allowances

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(a)[Repealed.]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 [the Legislature] shall be based on eighty percent (80%) of the amount as computed according to Subsection

(a)of this Section, for a reduction of twenty percent (20%).

(c)In the event that the annual operating budget for the government of Guam expires and no new annual operating budget has been enacted into law in accordance with the Organic Act, or rolled over from the previous year, then the salaries of the Senators of I Liheslaturan Guåhan shall be suspended and will resume prospectively only when a new annual operating budget for the government of Guam is enacted into law. This subsection

(c)shall be subject to the following provisions:

(1)Such suspension of salaries shall not take place if the failure to enact an annual budget is due to an emergency resulting from a natural or other disaster, or hostile action.

(2)The government of Guam’s share of retirement, Social Security, and health and other insurance payments shall be the individual responsibility of the Senators of I Liheslaturan Guåhan for the suspension period.