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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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116TH CONGRESS [REPT. 116-676
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1
DISASTER RECOVERY WORKFORCE ACT
DECEMBER 18, 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
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 4479]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 4479) to temporarily provide Commonwealth-only transi-
tional worker permits for workers in construction occupations in-
volved in disaster recovery, and for other purposes, having consid-
ered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and
recommends that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all that follows after the enacting clause, and insert the
following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Disaster Recovery Workforce Act.
SEC. 2. CONSTRUCTION WORKER PERMITS.
Section 6(d)(3) of the Joint Resolution entitled Joint Resolution to approve the
'Covenant 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(d)(3)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
(E) TYPHOON RECOVERY.-
(i) PERMITS FOR CONSTRUCTION WORKERS.-Notwithstanding any nu-
merical cap set forth in subparagraph (B) for each of fiscal years 2020,
2021, and 2022, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall increase by
3,000, for each such fiscal year, the total number of permits available
under this subsection for Construction and Extraction Occupations (as
defined by the Department of Labor as Standard Occupational Classi-
fication Group 47-0000).
(ii) PERMIT REQUIREMENTS.-The Secretary may only issue a permit
made available under clause (i) to a prospective employer if the permit
is for an alien who-
(I) is a national of a country designated eligible to participate
in the program under section 101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(b) of the Immigra-
tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(b)) during cal-
endar year 2018; and
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