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U.GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 117-642
PUERTO RICO STATUS ACT
DECEMBER 14, 2022.-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
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 8393]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 8393) to enable the people of Puerto Rico to choose a per-
manent, nonterritorial, fully self-governing political status for
Puerto Rico and to provide for a transition to and the implementa-
tion of that permanent, nonterritorial, fully self-governing political
status, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports
favorably thereon with an amendment 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 Puerto Rico Status Act.
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS.
The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title.
Sec. 2. Table of contents.
Sec. 3. Findings.
Sec. 4. Definitions.
Sec. 5. Plebiscite.
Sec. 6. Nonpartisan voter education campaign.
Sec. 7. Oversight.
Sec. 8. Funds for voter education; plebiscites.
Sec. 9. Bilingual voter educational materials and ballots.
Sec. 10. Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act.
Sec. 11. Severability.
TITLE I-TRANSITION AND IMPLEMENTATION - INDEPENDENCE
Sec. 101. Constitutional convention.
Sec. 102. Character of the constitution.
Sec. 103. Submission; ratification.
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