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[Senator Brian Collamore (Chair)]: Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the Senate Committee on Government Operations Committee meeting of Thursday, 05/07/2026. First item up for consideration is eight forty one, an accolade to miscellaneous animal welfare procedures. We talked with Lisa Milot, the animal director, director of animal welfare, And also, we had a long discussion about the 35 dog limit, and in the end decided that we would remove that. So you should have on your desk draft 1.3 of the bill, which still does have highlights in it, which does on page
[Senator Rebecca "Becca" White (Member)]: seven,
[Senator Brian Collamore (Chair)]: removed the provisions that says a person shall not own more than 35 dogs. That is now gone. And then in the final page of the bill, on page 16, it asked for the director of animal welfare to report to the house committee on government operations and the senate committee on Government Operations on the next steps necessary for the creation of a comprehensive animal welfare program in Guam, including specifically a proposal for the development of an oversight structure for dog and cat breeders and sellers, and people owning large numbers of these animals. Unless someone else has more testimony to give to the committee, or any committee members want to further amend this, this will go over to the other body. This is a strike all, so we have changed some other things in here, and it will necessitate a trip up the hall and over the transom and back in the bus. Although this is their belts. It may end there. I don't see anybody wanting to offer anything additional, so why don't we do this one? Would I be able to get some more court reforms? No. Would you like a motion? Yes.
[Senator Rebecca "Becca" White (Member)]: I would move that we roll out H eight forty one as amended with draft 1.3 favorably. Thank you.
[Senator Brian Collamore (Chair)]: As soon as work has moved. I apologize. It's okay. So favorable with amendment. Yep. With amendment draft 1.3. Got it. Yes. Okay. Senator Clarkson? Yes. Senator Morley? Yes. Senator Bahovsky? Yes. Senator White?
[Senator Rebecca "Becca" White (Member)]: Yes.
[Senator Brian Collamore (Chair)]: Senator Collam? Yes. And you can put me down as reporter, and I think it's probably gonna go next door, however, briefly. If it doesn't, it'll be on notice tomorrow or actually Tuesday. So either way, good work around this, think Lisa was, she's impressed with our thoughtfulness and Well, we
[Senator Rebecca "Becca" White (Member)]: are lucky to have Lisa. Oh, I agree. It's really terrific to finally have somebody who's taking over this whole area from the department and that it's now embedded in the Department of Public Safety. It's great.
[Senator Brian Collamore (Chair)]: Yep.
[Senator Rebecca "Becca" White (Member)]: We've been long missing that.
[Senator Brian Collamore (Chair)]: Okay, so I have the witness list and I have a- Think a few. And you have a boat. The original Jesus, really 35 pages? It's sixteen's. Well, yeah, but the originals.
[Senator Rebecca "Becca" White (Member)]: Well, that comes over with all the strikeouts and stuff.
[Senator Brian Collamore (Chair)]: Oh, yep, yep, yep, okay. Good start going. Okay. Why don't we now take a break since we've worked so hard on this? And next up will be a continued discussion of S-three 24, which is the government accountability bill. We have a committee bill, but that's as far as we've gotten with this. But I do well, when we go off, we'll talk about some more scheduling issues. Not issues, but schedule. Logistics. Yeah. So why don't we go off for about