IIB 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 560 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
FEBRUARY 27, 2020 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources 
AN ACT 
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 Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Northern Mariana Is-
lands Residents Relief Act’’. 
SEC. 2. LONG-TERM LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE COMMON-
WEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA IS-
LANDS. 
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 Po-
litical 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 sub-
clause (VI) of clause (v),’’ before ‘‘resided continu-
ously 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 Com-
monwealth as a Commonwealth Only 
Transitional Worker during fiscal year 
2015, and during every subsequent 
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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 sec-
tion 101(a)(15)(E)(ii) of the Immigra-
tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1101(a)(15)(E)(ii)).’’. 
SEC. 3. DETERMINATION OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS. 
The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of 
complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, 
shall be determined by reference to the latest statement 
titled ‘‘Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation’’ for this 
Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional Record 
by the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, 
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provided that such statement has been submitted prior to 
the vote on passage. 
Passed the House of Representatives February 26, 
2020. 
Attest: 
CHERYL L. JOHNSON, 
Clerk. 
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