Guam Legislature ends December session, passes package of bills including AI task-force measure and hospital funding

The Guam Legislature on Dec. 5, 2025, wrapped its December session by approving a broad set of bills covering artificial intelligence oversight, veterans’ affairs, election rules, and health-care funding, and by confirming four nominees to local boards. Lawmakers also successfully overrode the governor’s veto on Bill 119-38 COR.

Clerk readings and subsequent roll calls dominated the floor action. Among the package, the Legislature passed Bill 64-38 COR to establish a Guam artificial intelligence regulatory task force "to develop a comprehensive framework for the regulation of artificial intelligence" for government and the private sector while protecting constitutional rights. The body recorded the passage of that bill as 15 yeas and 1 excused.

The chamber approved appropriation Bill 187-38 COR, which allocates $19,745,714 from general-fund savings realized from bond-refunding to capital improvements and lifesaving supplies and materials at the Guam Memorial Hospital Authority (GMHA). Lawmakers recorded the appropriation's passage by the body and also approved a related pharmaceutical-fund appropriation for GMHA earlier in the session.

Other measures cleared the floor with largely party-line or bipartisan roll-call results, including updates to Guam’s election rules and administrative code, adjustments to voter-registration timelines and clerk terms, an increase in…