5 Guam Code Ann. § 6103
Terms Used In 5 Guam Code Ann. § 6103
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
(a) Government of Guam shall include all agencies, departments, instrumentalities, public corporations, and all other entities of the government, no matter how designated, and whether or not such agencies may sue or be sued in their own name.
(b) Chief Claims Officer means the Attorney General of Guam, and for the autonomous agencies the Attorney General shall designate as claims officers those persons so designated by the Board of such agency, or by its chief executive officer if there be no Board.
(c) Line Agency means any department, agency, or instrumentality of the Government of Guam which is funded by an annual appropriation from the Legislature. Such appropriations do not include subsidies.
(d) Autonomous agency means any department, agency, or instrumentality which generates, or is intended to generate, as evidenced in law, all of its own operating revenues apart from annual appropriations from the General Fund. Annual appropriations do not include amounts appropriated to line agencies to pay for services rendered by autonomous agencies. Subsidies appropriated from the General Fund to an autonomous agency, whether or not annually appropriated, shall not mean that an autonomous agency becomes a line agency for purposes of this Chapter.
(e) House Patient means a patient who presents themselves to Guam Memorial Hospital who does not have a private practitioner or who does not request and/or is unable to identify an accepting practitioner. For the purposes of the Government Claims Act and for Agent for Hospital Reimbursement, ‘House Patient’ designation is given to the care provided by agents of the hospital.
SOURCE: Added by P.L. 17-029:1 (Nov. 9, 1983) as § 6500.02. Codified as 5 Guam Code Ann. § 6103. Subsection (e) added by P.L. 29-076:2 (May
9, 2008).
COMMENT: This section is added to define the terms that will be used in this Chapter. The organization of the Chapter will treat the line agencies separately from the autonomous agencies as far as payment is concerned, but unify the procedure by which claims may be made, so that a person does not have to face one procedure for a line agency and another for each autonomous agency.