[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6015 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6015

   To require the Director of the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the 
   Department of Commerce to publish certain economic data regarding 
   territories and Freely Associated States, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 30, 2010

      Ms. Bordallo (for herself, Mr. Brown of South Carolina, Mr. 
  Faleomavaega, Mrs. Christensen, Mr. Pierluisi, Mr. Serrano, Mr. Al 
  Green of Texas, Ms. Hirono, and Mr. Honda) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in 
    addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Director of the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the 
   Department of Commerce to publish certain economic data regarding 
   territories and Freely Associated States, 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. BUREAU OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS DATA REGARDING TERRITORIES AND 
              FREELY ASSOCIATED STATES.

    (a) Requirements.--The Director of the Bureau of Economic Analysis 
of the Department of Commerce shall publish an annual report on the 
gross domestic product of the following:
            (1) Territories.--American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of 
        the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 
        and the United States Virgin Islands.
            (2) Freely associated states.--Republic of the Marshall 
        Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic 
        of Palau.
    (b) Effective Date.--The requirements of subsection (a) shall take 
effect on the day that is 90 days after the date of the enactment of 
this Act.

SEC. 2. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO IMMIGRATION PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO 
              GUAM AND NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS.

    (a) Waiver of Numerical Limitations for Nonimmigrant Workers During 
Transition.--Section 6(b) of the Joint Resolution entitled ``A Joint 
Resolution to approve the `Covenant To Establish a Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of 
America', and for other purposes'', approved March 24, 1976 (48 U.S.C. 
1806(e)), as added by section 702 of the Consolidated Natural Resources 
Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-229; 122 Stat. 854), is amended by 
inserting after the second sentence the following: ``In any case in 
which the Secretary of Labor implements an extension of the provisions 
of subsection (d) pursuant to subsection (d)(5), the provisions of this 
subsection shall be extended for the same period.''.
    (b) Guam and Northern Mariana Islands Visa Waiver Program.--Section 
702 of the Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-
229; 122 Stat. 854) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(l) Guam and Northern Mariana Islands Visa Waiver Alternative.--
In a case in which the regulations promulgated under section 212(l)(3) 
of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(l)), as amended 
by subsection (b)(3), do not include a listing of any country pursuant 
to section 212(l)(3)(A) of such Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security 
shall provide for an alternative procedure for the provision of a 
benefit similar to that described in section 212(l)(1) of such Act to 
nationals from any country from which the Commonwealth of the Northern 
Mariana Islands has received a significant economic benefit from the 
number of visitors for pleasure within the one-year period preceding 
the date of the enactment of this Act.''.
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