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116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7986 
To provide for contracting with Native Chamorro Organizations, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AUGUST 7, 2020 
Mr. SAN NICOLAS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on 
Small Business, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speak-
er, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the ju-
risdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide for contracting with Native Chamorro 
Organizations, 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 ‘‘Native Chamorro Eq-
uity Act’’. 
SEC. 2. CHAMORRO REGISTRY PROGRAM. 
The Organic Act of Guam (48 U.S.C. 1421 et seq.) 
is amended by inserting after section 3 the following: 
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‘‘SEC. 4. (a) There is established under the Depart-
ment of Chamorro Affairs the ‘Chamorro Registry Pro-
gram’ which shall keep a database to serve as a genealogy 
bank to verify Native Chamorro ancestry requirements. 
The President of the Department of Chamorro Affairs 
shall include in the database the name of any individual 
who submits to that President a request to be included 
and a copy of that individual’s birth certificate and direct 
ancestors birth certificates that demonstrate that one or 
more of the individual’s direct ancestors resided on Guam 
before August 1, 1950. 
‘‘(b)(1) In this section, the term ‘Native Chamorro’ 
means an individual who can document that one or more 
of the individual’s direct ancestors resided on Guam before 
August 1, 1950. 
‘‘(2) No residency or blood quantum amount shall be 
required for an individual to qualify as a ‘Native 
Chammoro’ under paragraph (1).’’. 
SEC. 3. SMALL BUSINESS CONTRACTING FOR NATIVE 
CHAMORRO ORGANIZATIONS. 
(a) NATIVE CHAMORRO ORGANIZATION DEFINED.— 
Section 3 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(ff) NATIVE CHAMORRO ORGANIZATION.— 
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‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—In this Act, the term ‘Na-
tive Chamorro Organization’ means any organiza-
tion— 
‘‘(A) that is a nonprofit corporation that 
has filed articles of incorporation with the di-
rector (or the designee thereof) of the Guam 
Department of Revenue and Taxation, or any 
successor agency; 
‘‘(B) 
that 
is 
controlled 
by 
Native 
Chamorros; and 
‘‘(C) whose business activities will prin-
cipally benefit Native Chamorros. 
‘‘(2) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—The Adminis-
trator shall, to the extent practicable, determine 
whether an organization is a Native Chamorro Orga-
nization in the same manner as such determination 
is made under section 8(a)(15) with respect to Na-
tive Hawaiian Organizations.’’. 
(b) SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED 
SMALL BUSINESS CONCERN.—Section 8(a)(4) of the 
Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(a)(4)) is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (A)— 
(A) in clause (i)— 
(i) in subclause (II), by striking ‘‘or’’ 
at the end; and 
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