(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 601 of the 
Act entitled ‘‘An Act to authorize appropriations for cer-
tain insular areas of the United States, and for other pur-
poses’’, approved March 12, 1980 (48 U.S.C. 1469a note; 
94 Stat. 90), is amended by striking ‘‘, and adding the 
following sentence’’ and all that follows through ‘‘Is-
lands’.’’. 
SEC. 15. FISHERY ENDORSEMENTS. 
Section 12113 of title 46, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(j) CERTAIN EXEMPTION.—Paragraph (3) of sub-
section (a) shall not apply to any vessel that— 
‘‘(1) offloads in American Samoa; and 
‘‘(2) was rebuilt outside of the United States 
before January 1, 2011.’’. 
SEC. 16. EFFECTS OF MINIMUM WAGE DIFFERENTIALS IN 
AMERICAN SAMOA. 
Section 8104 of the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 
(29 U.S.C. 206 note) is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘(c) EFFECTS OF MINIMUM WAGE DIFFERENTIALS 
IN AMERICAN SAMOA.—The reports required under this 
section shall include an analysis of the economic effects 
on employees and employers of the differentials in min-
imum wage rates among industries and classifications in 
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American Samoa under section 697 of title 29, Code of 
Federal Regulations, including the potential effects of 
eliminating such differentials prior to the time when such 
rates are scheduled to be equal to the minimum wage set 
forth in section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act 
(29 U.S.C. 206(a)(1)).’’. 
SEC. 17. AMERICAN SAMOA CITIZENSHIP PLEBISCITE ACT. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be cited as the 
‘‘American Samoa Citizenship Plebiscite Act’’. 
(b) FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.— 
(1) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(A) Under the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act, persons born in Puerto Rico, Guam, 
the United States Virgin Islands, and the Com-
monwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands are 
citizens of the United States at birth. Persons 
born in the United States territory of American 
Samoa are nationals of the United States, but 
not citizens, at birth. 
(B) The term ‘‘national of the United 
States’’ is defined under the Immigration and 
Nationality Act to include persons who, though 
not citizens of the United States, owe perma-
nent allegiance to the United States. 
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(C) For more than 100 years, American 
Samoans who are United States nationals have 
demonstrated their loyalty and allegiance to the 
United States. On April 17, 1900, the village 
chiefs of Tutuila and Aunu’u ceded their is-
lands to the United States. On July 16, 1904, 
his Majesty King Tuimanu’a of the Manu’a Is-
lands and his village chiefs did the same. On 
February 20, 1929, the United States Congress 
officially ratified the Treaty of Cession of 
Tutuila and Aunu’u and the Treaty of Cession 
of Manu’a. On March 4, 1925, by Joint Resolu-
tion of the United States Congress, American 
sovereignty was officially extended over Swains 
Island and it was placed under the jurisdiction 
of the government of American Samoa. 
(D) Since ratification of the Treaties of 
Cession, many American Samoans who are 
United States nationals have joined the United 
States Armed Forces and fought for the United 
States during World War II, the Korean, Viet-
nam, and Persian Gulf wars, and most recently 
in Iraq and Afghanistan. 
(E) It is the responsibility of the Secretary 
of Interior to advance the economic, social and 
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political development of the territories of the 
United States. 
(2) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is 
to provide for a federally authorized vote in Amer-
ican Samoa on the question of citizenship and if a 
majority of voters vote for citizenship, to describe 
the steps that the President and Congress shall take 
to enable American Samoans to be granted citizen-
ship. 
(c) CITIZENSHIP VOTE.—The Secretary of Interior 
shall direct the American Samoa Election Office to con-
duct a plebiscite on the issue of whether persons born in 
American Samoa desire United States citizenship. 
‘‘As United States Citizens: 
‘‘(A) Individuals born in American Samoa 
would be United States citizens by Federal law. 
‘‘(B) All persons living in American Samoa 
who are United States nationals will become 
United States citizens. Persons born in Amer-
ican Samoa will no longer be United States na-
tionals. 
Do you want persons born in American Samoa to 
become United States citizens? Yes ll Noll?’’. 
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SEC. 18. USE OF CERTAIN EXPENDITURES AS IN-KIND CON-
TRIBUTIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided under sub-
section (c), local matching requirements required of an af-
fected jurisdiction for Federal programs may be paid in 
cash or in-kind services provided by the affected jurisdic-
tion pursuant to the following: 
(1) Section 311 of the Compact of Free Asso-
ciation between the Government of the United 
States and the Government of the Federated States 
of Micronesia, approved in the Compact of Free As-
sociation Amendments Act of 2003 (Public Law 
108–188; 117 Stat. 2781). 
(2) Section 311 of the Compact of Free Asso-
ciation between the Government of the United 
States and the Government of the Republic of the 
Marshall Islands, approved in the Compact of Free 
Association Amendments Act of 2003 (Public Law 
108–188; 117 Stat. 2781). 
(3) The Compact of Free Association between 
the Government of the United States and the Gov-
ernment of the Republic of Palau, approved in the 
Palau Compact of Free Association Act (Public Law 
99–658; 100 Stat. 3672). 
(b) DETERMINATION OF AMOUNTS TO BE CONSID-
ERED IN-KIND CONTRIBUTIONS.—The Secretary of the 
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Interior shall determine the amounts that may be consid-
ered in-kind contributions for an affected jurisdiction 
under this section based on a reasonable estimate of the 
amount of impact expenditures for the Freely Associated 
States divided by a reasonable estimate of the number of 
inhabitants from the Freely Associated States living in 
that affected jurisdiction. 
(c) COMPETITIVE GRANTS.—Local matching require-
ments required of an affected jurisdiction for Federal com-
petitive grant programs may not be paid in cash or in- 
kind services under this section. 
(d) AFFECTED JURISDICTIONS.—The term ‘‘affected 
jurisdiction’’ shall have the meaning give that term in sec-
tion 104(e) of Public Law 108–188. (117 Stat. 2739). 
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