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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 354
115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 115-214
NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS U.S. WORKFORCE ACT
MARCH 20, 2018.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 2325]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 2325) to incentivize the hiring of United States
workers in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands,
and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favor-
ably thereon with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and
recommends that the bill, as amended, do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Northern Mariana Islands U.S. Workforce Act.
SEC. 2. PURPOSES.
The purposes of this Act are-
(1) to increase the percentage of United States workers (as defined in section
6(i) of the Joint Resolution entitled A Joint Resolution to approve the 'Cov-
enant To Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Polit-
ical Union with the United States of America', and for other purposes (48
U.S.C. 1806)) in the total workforce of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mar-
iana Islands, while maintaining the minimum number of workers who are not
United States workers to meet the changing demands of the Northern Mariana
Islands' economy;
(2) to encourage the hiring of United States workers into such workforce; and
(3) to ensure that no United States worker-
(A) is at a competitive disadvantage for employment compared to a work-
er who is not a United States worker; or
(B) is displaced by a worker who is not a United States worker.
SEC. 3. TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.-Section 6 of the Joint Resolution entitled A Joint Resolution
to approve the 'Covenant To Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mar-
iana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America', and for other
purposes (48 U.S.C. 1806) is amended-
(1) in subsection (a)-
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