Guam / Territory / 38th Guam Legislature, 2026 special session
Public Law 38-136, section 61 (Bill No. 1 (10-S)) Rewrote the Guam Veterans Higher Education Benefits Act and restarted its implementation
Restricts benefits Restarts the tuition exemption from new rules with no start date and puts veterans behind every other tuition-paying student for space.
Re-enacted 17 GCA Chapter 56 inside the fiscal year 2027 budget act, which lapsed into law without the Governor’s signature at the end of August 2026. Administration moves from the Commission on Post-Secondary Education to the University of Guam Board of Regents and the Guam Community College Board of Trustees, each of which has one hundred twenty days to adopt rules and sixty days after that to open applications, with exemptions processed from the next full semester; the April 1, 2026 start in P.L. 38-099 is gone. A tuition-paying student now includes anyone on loans, federal aid, scholarships or other waivers, so the space-available condition puts veterans behind every other student. The credit hour caps, the federal exhaustion rule and the residency tests are unchanged.
Progress
Path to law: Bill in a one-chamber legislature
- Introduced Done, Bill No. 1 (10-S), special session
- In committee Done, date not recorded
- Passed the legislature Done, As amended in the Committee of the Whole
- Became law without signature Done, The Governor let it lapse into law without her signature
- In effect Done, date not recorded
Sponsors
- Committee on Rules, at the request of the Governor
What it touches
- 17 GCA §§ 56101 to 56106
Catalog entry
Official record
Read Public Law 38-136, section 61 (Bill No. 1 (10-S)) on the jurisdiction's own record