Guam - Session resumed today at the Guam Legislature where lawmakers continued to discuss more measures including the first bill introduced this term Bill 1, or the Secure Our Schools Act of 2013 introduced by Speaker Judi Won Pat. Lawmakers spent the past two days discussing the measure that would authorize GEDA to procure the installation and maintenance of electronic surveillance and security systems for the island's public schools.

"Originally that's how the bill started. Now, there's some discussion whether we should make this a direct appropriations to up front the purchasing of all these equipment and then an annual appropriation every year the original bill calls for a totally different financing of the equipment," she said.

The bill calls for the equipment and contract to be paid with Section 30 funds limited to $1.3 million per year for no longer than 7 years. Won Pat says senators brought up concerns over the dollar amount and whether to cap it to $800,000. She adds the measure would also call for maintaining, repairing and replacing equipment.

Other changes to the bill include rather than doing a system-wide evaluation to instead conduct a risk assessment and working with the general services agency to get more information. Won pat says with all the feedback, concern and changes - she will tweak the bill and submit a substituted version when session resumes Thursday at 9am.