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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
GPO
116TH CONGRESS [REPT. 116-373
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1
NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS RESIDENTS RELIEF ACT
JANUARY 10, 2020.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 560]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 560) to amend section 6 of the Joint Resolution entitled
A Joint Resolution to approve the Covenant To Establish a Com-
monwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union
with the United States of America, and for other purposes, having
considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment
and recommend 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 Residents Relief Act.
SEC. 2. LONG-TERM LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MAR-
IANA ISLANDS.
Section 6(e)(6)(B) of the Joint Resolution entitled A Joint Resolution to approve
the Covenant To Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Po-
litical Union with the United States of America, and for other purposes, approved
March 24, 1976 (48 U.S.C. 1806), is amended-
(1) in clause (iii), by inserting except in the case of an alien who meets the
requirements of subclause (VI) of clause (v), before resided continuously and
lawfully; and
(2) in clause (v)-
(A) in subclause (IV), by striking ; or and inserting a semicolon;
(B) in subclause (V), by striking the period at the end and inserting
and
(C) by adding at the end the following:
(VI) was admitted to the Commonwealth as a Commonwealth
Only Transitional Worker during fiscal year 2015, and during
every subsequent fiscal year beginning before the date of the enact-
ment of the Northern Mariana Islands U.S. Workforce Act of 2018
(Public Law 115-218); or
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