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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’’. 

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’’. 


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1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Northern Mariana Is5 lands Residents Relief Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. LONG-TERM LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE COMMON7 WEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA IS8 LANDS. 

9 Section 6(e)(6)(B) of the Joint Resolution entitled ‘‘A 

10 Joint Resolution to approve the Covenant To Establish a 

11 Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Polit12 ical Union with the United States of America, and for other 

13 purposes’’, approved March 24, 1976 (48 U.S.C. 1806), is 

14 amended— 

15 (1) in clause (iii), by inserting ‘‘except in the 

16 case of an alien who meets the requirements of sub17 clause (VI) of clause (v),’’ before ‘‘resided continuously 

18 and lawfully’’; and 

19 (2) in clause (v)— 

20 (A) in subclause (IV), by striking ‘‘; or’’ 

21 and inserting a semicolon; 

22 (B) in subclause (V), by striking the period 

23 at the end and inserting ‘‘;’’; and 

24 (C) by adding at the end the following: 


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1 ‘‘(VI) was admitted to the Com2 monwealth as a Commonwealth Only 

3 Transitional Worker during fiscal year 

4 2015, and during every subsequent fis5 cal year beginning before the date of 

6 the enactment of the Northern Mariana 

7 Islands U.S. Workforce Act of 2018 

8 (Public Law 115–218); or 

9 ‘‘(VII) resided in the Northern 

10 Mariana Islands as an investor under 

11 Commonwealth immigration law, and 

12 is presently a resident classified as a 

13 CNMI-only nonimmigrant under sec14 tion 101(a)(15)(E)(ii) of the Immigra15 tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 

16 1101(a)(15)(E)(ii)).’’. 


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Union Calendar No. 296 

116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 560 

[Report No. 116–373, Part I] 

A BILL 

To amend section 6 of the Joint Resolution entitled 

States of America, and for other purposes’’. iana Islands in Political Union with the United Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mar-‘‘A Joint Resolution to approve the Covenant To 

JANUARY 10, 2020 

Reported from the Committee on Natural Resources with 

an amendment 

JANUARY 10, 2020 

Committee on the Judiciary discharged; committed to the 

Union and ordered to be printed Committee of the Whole House on the State of the 


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