[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4479 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4479

 To temporarily provide Commonwealth-only transitional worker permits 
for workers in construction occupations involved in disaster recovery, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 24, 2019

  Mr. Sablan 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 temporarily provide Commonwealth-only transitional worker permits 
for workers in construction occupations involved in disaster recovery, 
                        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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Disaster Recovery Workforce Act''.

SEC. 2. CONSTRUCTION WORKER PERMITS.

    Section 6(d)(3) 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'' (48 U.S.C. 1806) is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
                    ``(E) Typhoon recovery.--
                            ``(i) Permits for construction workers.--
                        Notwithstanding any numerical cap set forth in 
                        subparagraph (B) for each of fiscal years 2020, 
                        2021, and 2022, the Secretary of Homeland 
                        Security shall increase by 3,000, for each such 
                        fiscal year, the total number of aliens who may 
                        receive a permit under this section for 
                        Construction and Extraction Occupations (as 
                        defined by the Department of Labor as Standard 
                        Occupational Classification Group 47-0000).
                            ``(ii) Exception for construction 
                        workers.--Subparagraph (D)(v) shall not apply 
                        to an alien who receives a permit described in 
                        clause (i) for any fiscal year described in 
                        such clause.''.
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