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<meta><dc:title>113 S 256 ENR: To amend Public Law 93–435 with respect to the Northern Mariana Islands, providing parity with Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa.</dc:title>
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<congress style="-uslm-lc:I665502" value="113">One Hundred Thirteenth Congress of the United States of America</congress><session style="-uslm-lc:I665503" value="1">A T T  H  E F  I  R  S  T S  E  S  S  I  O  N</session>
<enrolledDateline style="-uslm-lc:I665504">Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday, the third day of January, two thousand and thirteen</enrolledDateline>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize18" style="-uslm-lc:I665505">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="centered fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I665511">To amend Public Law 93–435 with respect to the Northern Mariana Islands, providing parity with Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa.<?GPOvSpace 08?></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</enactingFormula>
<section id="d100854e62" identifier="/us/bill/113/s/256/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I650146"><num value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>AMENDMENT.</heading><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d100854e66" identifier="/us/bill/113/s/256/s1/a" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>The first section and <ref href="/us/pl/93/435/s2">section 2 of Public Law 93–435</ref> (<ref href="/us/usc/t48/s1705">48 U.S.C. 1705</ref>, 1706) are amended by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands,</quotedText>” after “<quotedText>Guam,</quotedText>” each place it appears.</content></subsection><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d100854e84" identifier="/us/bill/113/s/256/s1/b" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">References to Date of Enactment</inline>.—</heading><content>For the purposes of the amendment made by subsection (a), each reference in <ref href="/us/pl/93/435">Public Law 93–435</ref> to the “date of enactment” shall be considered to be a reference to the date of the enactment of this section.</content></subsection></section>
<section id="d100854e97" identifier="/us/bill/113/s/256/s2" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>ADJUSTMENT OF SCHEDULED WAGE INCREASES IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  Section 8103(b)(1)(B) of the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 (<ref href="/us/usc/t29/s206">29 U.S.C. 206 note</ref>; <ref href="/us/pl/110/28">Public Law 110–28</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>2011</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>2011, 2013, and 2015</quotedText>”.</content></section>
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<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Speaker of the House of Representatives.</role></signature>
<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Vice President of the United States and  President of the Senate.</role></signature>
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