Employment Services and Jobs Parity Act

Subjects: Government Operations and Politics


<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3193 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3193

   To amend the Wagner-Peyser Act to include the Commonwealth of the 
  Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 10, 2023

 Mr. Sablan (for himself and Mrs. Radewagen) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the 
                               Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Wagner-Peyser Act to include the Commonwealth of the 
  Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa, 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 ``Employment Services and Jobs Parity 
Act''.

SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS AND 
              AMERICAN SAMOA.

    The Wagner-Peyser Act (29 U.S.C. 49 et seq.) is amended--
            (1) in section 2(5) (29 U.S.C. 49a(5)), by inserting ``the 
        Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa,'' 
        after ``Guam,'';
            (2) in section 5(b)(1) (29 U.S.C. 49d(b)(1)), by inserting 
        ``the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and 
        American Samoa,'' after ``Guam,'';
            (3) in section 6(a) (29 U.S.C. 49e(a))--
                    (A) by inserting ``, the Commonwealth of the 
                Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa'' after 
                ``except for Guam'';
                    (B) by striking ``allot to Guam'' and inserting the 
                following: ``allot to--
            ``(1) Guam'';
                    (C) by striking the period at the end and inserting 
                a semicolon; and
                    (D) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands an 
        amount which, in relation to the total amount available for the 
        fiscal year, is equal to the allotment percentage that Guam 
        received of amounts available under this Act in fiscal year 
        1983; and
            ``(3) American Samoa an amount which, in relation to the 
        total amount available for the fiscal year, is equal to the 
        allotment percentage that Guam received of amounts available 
        under this Act in fiscal year 1983.''; and
            (4) in section 6(b) (29 U.S.C. 49e(b))--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) in the matter preceding subparagraph 
                        (A), by striking ``paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) 
                        of this subsection'' and inserting ``paragraph 
                        (2) of this subsection''; and
                            (ii) in the matter following subparagraph 
                        (B), by inserting ``, the Commonwealth of the 
                        Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa,'' 
                        after ``does not include Guam''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2)(A) No State may receive an allotment under paragraph 
        (1) for a fiscal year that is less than the allotment that the 
        State received under paragraph (1) for the fiscal year 
        preceding the first fiscal year for which the Commonwealth of 
        the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa receive an 
        allotment under subsection (a)(1).
            ``(B) If for any fiscal year the amount available for 
        allotment under this subsection is insufficient to satisfy the 
        provisions of subparagraph (A) the Secretary shall ratably 
        reduce the allotments to all States for such fiscal year.''.
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