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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 Com-
mittee 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’’. 
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 ‘‘Northern Marianas 
Population Stabilization Act’’. 
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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 
fiscal year beginning before the date 
of the enactment of the Northern 
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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, pro-
vided that such statement has been submitted prior to the 
vote on passage. 
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