[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1460 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1460

To allow for election of the Delegate from Guam by other than separate 
                    ballot, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 24, 1997

Mr. Underwood introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To allow for election of the Delegate from Guam by other than separate 
                    ballot, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. BALLOT REQUIREMENT FOR DELEGATE.

    Section 2(a) of the Act entitled ``An Act to provide that the 
unincorporated territories of Guam and the Virgin Islands shall each be 
represented in Congress by a Delegate to the House of Representatives'' 
approved April 10, 1972 (48 U.S.C. 1712(a)), is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``from the Virgin Islands'' before ``shall 
        be elected at large''; and
            (2) by inserting ``The Delegate from Guam shall be elected 
        at large and by a majority of the votes cast for the office of 
        Delegate.'' before ``If no candidate''.

SEC. 2. TEMPORARY ABSENCE OF OFFICIALS.

    Section 8 of the Organic Act of Guam (48 U.S.C. 1422b) is amended 
by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(g) An absence from Guam of the Governor or the Lieutenant 
Governor, while on official business shall not be a `temporary absence' 
for the purposes of this section.''.
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