[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 842 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 842

             To amend the Defense Base Act to exclude Guam.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 6, 2023

  Mr. Moylan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
             To amend the Defense Base Act to exclude Guam.

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

SECTION 1. INAPPLICABILITY OF DEFENSE BASE ACT TO GUAM.

    Subsection (b) of section 1 of the Defense Base Act (Chapter 357; 
55 Stat. 622; 42 U.S.C. 1651) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (4), by striking ``the period at the end'' 
        and inserting ``and Guam;''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(5) the term `Territory or possession outside the 
        continental United States' does not include Guam.''.
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