[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5154 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5154

   To condition further increases in the minimum wage applicable to 
American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands on 
a determination by the Secretary of Labor that such increases will not 
   have an adverse impact on the economies of American Samoa and the 
             Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 29, 2008

 Mr. Faleomavaega introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                  the Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
   To condition further increases in the minimum wage applicable to 
American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands on 
a determination by the Secretary of Labor that such increases will not 
   have an adverse impact on the economies of American Samoa and the 
             Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

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

SECTION 1. MINIMUM WAGE IN AMERICAN SAMOA AND COMMONWEALTH OF THE 
              NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS.

    Title VIII of the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina 
Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007 is amended--
            (1) in section 8103(b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)(B), by inserting before the 
                semicolon the following: ``, if the Secretary of Labor 
                determines, based on the study required under section 
                8104 and in consultation with the Secretary of the 
                Interior and the government of the Commonwealth of the 
                Northern Mariana Islands, that an increase under this 
                subparagraph will not have an adverse impact on the 
                economy of Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
                Islands'';
                    (B) in paragraph (2)(C), by inserting before the 
                period the following: ``, if the Secretary of Labor 
                determines, based on the study required under section 
                8104 and in consultation with the Secretary of the 
                Interior and the government of American Samoa, that an 
                increase under this subparagraph will not have an 
                adverse impact on the economy of American Samoa''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
``The Secretary of Labor shall make the determinations required under 
paragraphs (1)(B) and (2)(C) each year at least 60 days before the 
scheduled increase in the minimum wage required under each such 
subparagraph, and shall publish such determinations in the Federal 
Register.''; and
            (2) in section 8104--
                    (A) by inserting ``and every 2 years thereafter,'' 
                after ``enactment of this Act,'' both places it 
                appears; and
                    (B) in subsection (b), by striking ``study'' and 
                inserting ``studies''.
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