Northern Mariana Islands Economic Expansion Act

Bill: 115-hr-339
Sponsor: full_name: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-01-05
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Building construction

Foreign labor

Immigration status and procedures

Licensing and registrations

Northern Mariana Islands

User charges and fees
Latest action: action_date: 2017-08-22
text: Became Public Law No: 115-53.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-01-05
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Northern Mariana Islands Economic Expansion Act</strong></p> <p>This bill: (1) requires the Department of Homeland Security to increase the supplemental education fee charged to a prospective employer in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) for each CNMI-Only Transitional Worker who is issued a permit during the transition period to U.S. immigration law, (2) allows such a permit for construction occupations to be issued only to extend a permit first issued before October 1, 2015, and (3) caps the number of permits issued for such nonimmigrant workers for FY2017 at 15,000.</p>

action_date: 2017-01-30
action_desc: Passed House without amendment
text: <p>(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)</p> <p><strong>Northern Mariana Islands Economic Expansion Act</strong></p> <p>This bill: (1) requires the Department of Homeland Security to increase the supplemental education fee charged to a prospective employer in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) for each CNMI-Only Transitional Worker who is issued a permit during the transition period to U.S. immigration law, (2) allows such a permit for construction occupations to be issued only to extend a permit first issued before October 1, 2015, and (3) caps the number of permits issued for such nonimmigrant workers for FY2017 at 15,000.</p>

action_date: 2017-08-22
action_desc: Public Law
text: <p><strong>Northern Mariana Islands Economic Expansion Act</strong></p> <p> (Sec. 2) This bill revises Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) transitional worker (CW-1 visa) provisions.</p> <p>The supplemental vocational education fee charged to a prospective CNMI employer for each transitional worker is increased from $150 to $200. </p> <p>Construction occupation permits may be issued only to extend permits issued before October 1, 2015, except that for FY2017, an additional 350 permits shall be made available with at least 60 reserved for health care practitioners and technical operations and at least 10 reserved for plant and system operators.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 339 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 5, 2017 Mr. Sablan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources , and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary , 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 Public Law 94–241 with respect to the Northern Mariana Islands.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Northern Mariana Islands Economic Expansion Act . 2. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: Transitional workers Section 6 of Public Law 94–241 ( 48 U.S.C. 1806 ) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)(6), by striking $150 and inserting $200 ; and (2) in subsection (d)(2)— (A) by striking the period at the end of the first sentence and inserting , except a permit for construction occupations (as that term is defined by the Department of Labor as Standard Occupational Classification Group 47–0000 or any successor provision) shall only be issued to extend a permit first issued before October 1, 2015. ; and (B) by striking the period at the end of the third sentence and inserting , except that for fiscal year 2017 the number of permits issued shall not exceed 15,000. .

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 339 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AN ACT To amend Public Law 94–241 with respect to the Northern Mariana Islands.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Northern Mariana Islands Economic Expansion Act . 2. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: Transitional workers Section 6 of Public Law 94–241 ( 48 U.S.C. 1806 ) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)(6), by striking $150 and inserting $200 ; and (2) in subsection (d)(2)— (A) by striking the period at the end of the first sentence and inserting , except a permit for construction occupations (as that term is defined by the Department of Labor as Standard Occupational Classification Group 47–0000 or any successor provision) shall only be issued to extend a permit first issued before October 1, 2015. ; and (B) by striking the period at the end of the third sentence and inserting , except that for fiscal year 2017 the number of permits issued shall not exceed 15,000. .

Passed the House of Representatives January 30, 2017. Karen L. Haas, Clerk.

tv_txt: IIB 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 339 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 31, 2017 Received February 1, 2017 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources AN ACT To amend Public Law 94–241 with respect to the Northern Mariana Islands.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Northern Mariana Islands Economic Expansion Act . 2. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: Transitional workers Section 6 of Public Law 94–241 ( 48 U.S.C. 1806 ) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)(6), by striking $150 and inserting $200 ; and (2) in subsection (d)(2)— (A) by striking the period at the end of the first sentence and inserting , except a permit for construction occupations (as that term is defined by the Department of Labor as Standard Occupational Classification Group 47–0000 or any successor provision) shall only be issued to extend a permit first issued before October 1, 2015. ; and (B) by striking the period at the end of the third sentence and inserting , except that for fiscal year 2017 the number of permits issued shall not exceed 15,000. .

Passed the House of Representatives January 30, 2017. Karen L. Haas, Clerk

tv_txt: 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H.R. 339 In the Senate of the United States, August 1, 2017. Amendment:

That the bill from the House of Representatives (H.R. 339) entitled An Act to amend Public Law 94–241 with respect to the Northern Mariana Islands. , do pass with the following Beginning on page 2, strike line 19, and all that follows through the end and insert the following: (B) by striking ending on December 31, 2019 . and inserting “ending on December 31, 2019, except that for fiscal year 2017 an additional 350 permits shall be made available for extension of existing permits, expiring after the date of enactment of the Northern Mariana Islands Economic Expansion Act through September 30, 2017, of which no fewer than 60 shall be reserved for healthcare practitioners and technical operations (as that term is defined by the Department of Labor as Standard Occupational Classification Group 29–0000 or any successor provision), and no fewer than 10 shall be reserved for plant and system operators (as that term is defined by the Department of Labor as Standard Occupational Classification Group 51–8000 or any successor provision).”.

Secretary

tv_txt: I One Hundred Fifteenth Congress of the United States of America At the First Session Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, the third day of January, two thousand and seventeen H. R. 339 AN ACT To amend Public Law 94–241 with respect to the Northern Mariana Islands.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Northern Mariana Islands Economic Expansion Act . 2. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: Transitional workers Section 6 of Public Law 94–241 ( 48 U.S.C. 1806 ) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)(6), by striking $150 and inserting $200 ; and (2) in subsection (d)(2)— (A) by striking the period at the end of the first sentence and inserting , except a permit for construction occupations (as that term is defined by the Department of Labor as Standard Occupational Classification Group 47–0000 or any successor provision) shall only be issued to extend a permit first issued before October 1, 2015. ; and (B) by striking ending on December 31, 2019 . and inserting “ending on December 31, 2019, except that for fiscal year 2017 an additional 350 permits shall be made available for extension of existing permits, expiring after the date of enactment of the Northern Mariana Islands Economic Expansion Act through September 30, 2017, of which no fewer than 60 shall be reserved for healthcare practitioners and technical operations (as that term is defined by the Department of Labor as Standard Occupational Classification Group 29–0000 or any successor provision), and no fewer than 10 shall be reserved for plant and system operators (as that term is defined by the Department of Labor as Standard Occupational Classification Group 51–8000 or any successor provision).”.

Speaker of the House of Representatives. Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate.