[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
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[H.R. 560 Reported in House (RH)]

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                                                 Union Calendar No. 296
116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 560

                      [Report No. 116-373, Part I]

     To amend section 6 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''.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 15, 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

                            January 10, 2020

    Additional sponsors: Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Correa, Mr. Vargas, Mrs. 
                   Radewagen, and Mr. Bishop of Utah

                            January 10, 2020

   Reported from the Committee on Natural Resources with an amendment
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]

                            January 10, 2020

 Committee on the Judiciary discharged; committed to the Committee of 
  the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on January 
                               15, 2019]


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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend section 6 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''.


 


    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 ``Northern Mariana Islands Residents 
Relief Act''.

SEC. 2. LONG-TERM LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN 
              MARIANA ISLANDS.

    Section 6(e)(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), is amended--
            (1) in clause (iii), by inserting ``except in the case of 
        an alien who meets the requirements of subclause (VI) of clause 
        (v),'' before ``resided continuously and lawfully''; and
            (2) in clause (v)--
                    (A) in subclause (IV), by striking ``; or'' and 
                inserting a semicolon;
                    (B) in subclause (V), by striking the period at the 
                end and inserting ``;''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                                    ``(VI) was admitted to the 
                                Commonwealth as a Commonwealth Only 
                                Transitional Worker during fiscal year 
                                2015, and during every subsequent 
                                fiscal year beginning before the date 
                                of the enactment of the Northern 
                                Mariana Islands U.S. Workforce Act of 
                                2018 (Public Law 115-218); or
                                    ``(VII) resided in the Northern 
                                Mariana Islands as an investor under 
                                Commonwealth immigration law, and is 
                                presently a resident classified as a 
                                CNMI-only nonimmigrant under section 
                                101(a)(15)(E)(ii) of the Immigration 
                                and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
                                1101(a)(15)(E)(ii)).''.
                                                 Union Calendar No. 296

116th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 560

                      [Report No. 116-373, Part I]

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                                 A BILL

     To amend section 6 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''.

_______________________________________________________________________

                            January 10, 2020

   Reported from the Committee on Natural Resources with an amendment

                            January 10, 2020

 Committee on the Judiciary discharged; committed to the Committee of 
  the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed