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118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 560 

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 26, 2023 

Mr. SABLAN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on the 

Judiciary, and the Budget, 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 

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’’. 

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 Marianas 

5 Population Stabilization Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. LONG-TERM LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE COMMON2 WEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA IS3 LANDS. 

4 Section 6(e)(6)(B) of the Joint Resolution entitled 

5 ‘‘A Joint Resolution to approve the Covenant To Establish 

6 a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Po7 litical Union with the United States of America, and for 

8 other purposes’’, approved March 24, 1976 (48 U.S.C. 

9 1806), is amended— 

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

11 case of an alien who meets the requirements of sub12 clause (VI) of clause (v),’’ before ‘‘resided continu13 ously and lawfully’’; and 

14 (2) in clause (v)— 

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

16 and inserting a semicolon; 

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

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

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

20 ‘‘(VI) was admitted to the Com21 monwealth as a Commonwealth Only 

22 Transitional Worker during fiscal year 

23 2015, and during every subsequent 

24 fiscal year beginning before the date 

25 of the enactment of the Northern 


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1 Mariana Islands U.S. Workforce Act 

2 of 2018 (Public Law 115–218); or 

3 ‘‘(VII) resided in the Northern 

4 Mariana Islands as an investor under 

5 Commonwealth immigration law, and 

6 is presently a resident classified as a 

7 CNMI-only nonimmigrant under sec8 tion 101(a)(15)(E)(ii) of the Immigra9 tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 

10 1101(a)(15)(E)(ii)).’’. 

11 SEC. 3. DETERMINATION OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS. 

12 The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of 

13 complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, 

14 shall be determined by reference to the latest statement 

15 titled ‘‘Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation’’ for this 

16 Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional Record 

17 by the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, pro18 vided that such statement has been submitted prior to the 

19 vote on passage. 

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