I 
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. 
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 
A BILL 
To amend the Wagner-Peyser Act to include the Common-
wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and American 
Samoa, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives 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 NORTH-
ERN 
MARIANA 
ISLANDS 
AND 
AMERICAN 
SAMOA. 
The Wagner-Peyser Act (29 U.S.C. 49 et seq.) is 
amended— 
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(1) in section 2(5) (29 U.S.C. 49a(5)), by in-
serting ‘‘the Commonwealth of the Northern Mar-
iana 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 Mar-
iana 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 in-
serting 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 Mar-
iana 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 re-
lation to the total amount available for the fiscal 
year, is equal to the allotment percentage that Guam 
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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 subpara-
graph (A), by striking ‘‘paragraphs (2), 
(3), and (4) of this subsection’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘paragraph (2) of this subsection’’; 
and 
(ii) in the matter following subpara-
graph (B), by inserting ‘‘, the Common-
wealth 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 re-
ceive 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 Sec-
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retary shall ratably reduce the allotments to all 
States for such fiscal year.’’. 
Æ 
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