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                                                 Union Calendar No. 145
105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1460

                          [Report No. 105-253]

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

                           September 18, 1997

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]

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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,

<DELETED>SECTION 1. BALLOT REQUIREMENT FOR DELEGATE.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    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--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) by inserting ``from the Virgin Islands'' 
        before ``shall be elected at large''; and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (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''.</DELETED>

<DELETED>SEC. 2. TEMPORARY ABSENCE OF OFFICIALS.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Section 8 of the Organic Act of Guam (48 U.S.C. 1422b) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:</DELETED>
<DELETED>    ``(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.''.</DELETED>

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''.




                                                 Union Calendar No. 145

105th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 1460

                          [Report No. 105-253]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

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

_______________________________________________________________________

                           September 18, 1997

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed