FIFTH REGULAR SESSION, SEPTEMBER 2016
C.R. NO. 19-265
A RESOLUTION
Approving and accepting a grant in the amount $91,540 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to fund the FSM Tracking, Surveillance and Integration Project, including all the terms and conditions of the assistance.
WHEREAS, on July 25, 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, issued a Grant Award in the amount of $91,540; and
WHEREAS, the purpose of he grant is to build on the existing data systems that are currently in place to track information on newborns in the FSM; and
WHEREAS, section 210(2) of Title 55 of the Code of the Federated States of Micronesia provides that for an agreement on foreign financial assistance to be valid it must be approved by Congress by resolution; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the Nineteenth Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia, Fifth Regular Session, 2016, that Congress hereby approves and accepts the $91,540 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to fund the FSM Tracking Surveillance and Integration Project, including all the terms and conditions thereof; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this resolution be transmitted to the President of the Federated States of Micronesia and the Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Affairs.
Date: 9/19/16 Introduced by: /s/ Singkoro S. Harper
Singkoro S. Harper
(by request)