“We should make clear that this bill seeks to change history; not something we typically do with legislation.”

—Attorney General Douglas B. Moylan in a Sept. 3 letter to Sen. Therese M. Terlaje, speaker of the 37th Guam legislature, regarding Bill 334-37. Moylan said under previous management, the Chamorro Land Trust Commission saw about 2,800 of about 2,900 leases out of compliance or potentially “null and void” for either “jumping the line” to be awarded plots or switching leases with another person.

A second group of tenants that the bill addresses are those who also have “null and void” issues but who have other issues such as owing property taxes, or lack of compliance with requirements for land trust farms, as well.

Moylan suggested timelines for all tenants to come into compliance.