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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 1571 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 |
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| 6 | 6 | | to provide certain Federal public benefits to citizens of the Federated |
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| 7 | 7 | | States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the |
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| 8 | 8 | | Republic of Palau who are lawfully residing in the United States if |
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| 9 | 9 | | they are otherwise qualified, consistent with section 141 of the Compacts |
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| 10 | 10 | | of Free Association. |
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| 11 | 11 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 12 | 12 | | MARCH14, 2023 |
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| 13 | 13 | | Mr. C |
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| 14 | 14 | | ASE(for himself, Mr. WOMACK, and Ms. TOKUDA) introduced the fol- |
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| 15 | 15 | | lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Ac- |
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| 16 | 16 | | countability, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and |
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| 17 | 17 | | Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, |
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| 18 | 18 | | in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris- |
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| 19 | 19 | | diction of the committee concerned |
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| 20 | 20 | | A BILL |
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| 21 | 21 | | To amend the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity |
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| 22 | 22 | | Act of 1996 to provide certain Federal public benefits |
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| 23 | 23 | | to citizens of the Federated States of Micronesia, the |
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| 24 | 24 | | Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of |
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| 25 | 25 | | Palau who are lawfully residing in the United States |
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| 26 | 26 | | if they are otherwise qualified, consistent with section |
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| 27 | 27 | | 141 of the Compacts of Free Association. |
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| 28 | 28 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | •HR 1571 IH |
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| 33 | 33 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1 |
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| 34 | 34 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Compact Impact Fair-2 |
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| 35 | 35 | | ness Act of 2023’’. 3 |
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| 36 | 36 | | SEC. 2. PROVISION OF FEDERAL PUBLIC BENEFIT ELIGI-4 |
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| 37 | 37 | | BILITY FOR CITIZENS OF FREELY ASSOCI-5 |
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| 38 | 38 | | ATED STATES. 6 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (a) I |
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| 40 | 40 | | NGENERAL.—Section 402 of the Personal Re-7 |
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| 41 | 41 | | sponsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 8 |
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| 42 | 42 | | 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1612) is amended— 9 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (1) in subsection (a)(2), by adding at the end 10 |
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| 44 | 44 | | the following: 11 |
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| 45 | 45 | | ‘‘(N) E |
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| 46 | 46 | | XCEPTION FOR CITIZENS OF FREE -12 |
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| 47 | 47 | | LY ASSOCIATED STATES.—With respect to eligi-13 |
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| 48 | 48 | | bility for benefits for any specified Federal pro-14 |
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| 49 | 49 | | gram, paragraph (1) shall not apply to any in-15 |
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| 50 | 50 | | dividual who lawfully resides in the United 16 |
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| 51 | 51 | | States in accordance with section 141 of the 17 |
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| 52 | 52 | | Compacts of Free Association between the Gov-18 |
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| 53 | 53 | | ernment of the United States and the Govern-19 |
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| 54 | 54 | | ments of the Federated States of Micronesia, 20 |
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| 55 | 55 | | the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the 21 |
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| 56 | 56 | | Republic of Palau, and who is a citizen of one 22 |
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| 57 | 57 | | of those three nations.’’; and 23 |
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| 58 | 58 | | (2) in subsection (b)(2)(G)— 24 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (A) in the subparagraph heading, by strik-1 |
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| 63 | 63 | | ing ‘‘MEDICAID EXCEPTION FOR’’ and in-2 |
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| 64 | 64 | | serting ‘‘EXCEPTION FOR’’; and 3 |
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| 65 | 65 | | (B) by striking ‘‘the designated Federal 4 |
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| 66 | 66 | | program defined in paragraph (3)(C) (relating 5 |
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| 67 | 67 | | to the Medicaid program)’’ and inserting ‘‘any 6 |
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| 68 | 68 | | designated Federal program’’. 7 |
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| 69 | 69 | | (b) E |
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| 70 | 70 | | XCEPTION TO5-YEARWAITREQUIREMENT.— 8 |
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| 71 | 71 | | Section 403(b)(3) of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1613(b)(3)) is 9 |
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| 72 | 72 | | amended by striking ‘‘, but only with respect to the des-10 |
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| 73 | 73 | | ignated Federal program defined in section 11 |
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| 74 | 74 | | 402(b)(3)(C)’’. 12 |
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| 75 | 75 | | (c) D |
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| 76 | 76 | | EFINITION OF QUALIFIEDALIEN.—Section 13 |
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| 77 | 77 | | 431(b)(8) of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1641(b)(8)) is amended 14 |
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| 78 | 78 | | by striking ‘‘, but only with respect to the designated Fed-15 |
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| 79 | 79 | | eral program defined in section 402(b)(3)(C) (relating to 16 |
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| 80 | 80 | | the Medicaid program)’’. 17 |
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