[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 573 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 573

    To amend Public Law 93-435 with respect to the Northern Mariana 
 Islands, providing parity with Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American 
                                 Samoa.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 6, 2013

   Mr. Sablan (for himself, Mr. Young of Alaska, Ms. Bordallo, Mrs. 
Napolitano, Mr. Rahall, Mr. Connolly, Mrs. Christensen, Mr. David Scott 
  of Georgia, Ms. Norton, Mr. Moran, Mr. Honda, Mr. Faleomavaega, Mr. 
    Grijalva, Mr. Markey, Mr. Peterson, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. 
 Gutierrez, Mr. Grayson, Mr. Carson of Indiana, Mr. Jones, Mr. Costa, 
Mr. Pierluisi, Ms. Hanabusa, Mr. George Miller of California, Ms. Chu, 
    Mr. Tonko, Mr. Cartwright, Ms. Gabbard, Mr. Farr, Mr. Holt, Mr. 
   Dingell, Mr. Bishop of Utah, Mr. Al Green of Texas, Mr. Scott of 
Virginia, and Mr. Castro of Texas) introduced the following bill; which 
           was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend Public Law 93-435 with respect to the Northern Mariana 
 Islands, providing parity with Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American 
                                 Samoa.

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

SECTION 1. AMENDMENT.

    (a) In General.--The first section and section 2 of Public Law 93-
435 (48 U.S.C. 1705, 1706) are amended by inserting ``the Commonwealth 
of the Northern Mariana Islands,'' after ``Guam,'' each place it 
appears.
    (b) References to Date of Enactment.--For the purposes of the 
amendment made by subsection (a), each reference in Public Law 93-435 
to the ``date of enactment'' shall be considered to be a reference to 
the date of the enactment of this section.
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