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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 1797 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Wagner-Peyser Act to include the Commonwealth of the |
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| 6 | 6 | | Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | MARCH3, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Ms. K |
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| 10 | 10 | | ING-HINDS(for herself and Mrs. RADEWAGEN) introduced the following |
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| 11 | 11 | | bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To amend the Wagner-Peyser Act to include the Common- |
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| 14 | 14 | | wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and American |
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| 15 | 15 | | Samoa, and for other purposes. |
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| 16 | 16 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 17 | 17 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 18 | 18 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 19 | 19 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Employment Services 4 |
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| 20 | 20 | | and Jobs Parity Act’’. 5 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE WAGNER-PEYSER ACT. 6 |
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| 22 | 22 | | (a) D |
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| 23 | 23 | | EFINITIONS.—Section 2(5) of the Wagner- 7 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Peyser Act (29 U.S.C. 49a(5)) is amended by inserting 8 |
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| 25 | 25 | | ‘‘the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 9 |
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| 26 | 26 | | American Samoa,’’ after ‘‘Guam,’’. 10 |
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| 30 | 30 | | (b) UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATIONLAWREQUIRE-1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | MENT.—Section 5(b)(1) of such Act is amended by insert-2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | ing ‘‘the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | American Samoa,’’ after ‘‘Guam,’’. 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (c) A |
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| 35 | 35 | | LLOTMENTS.—Section 6 of such Act (29 U.S.C. 5 |
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| 36 | 36 | | 49e) is amended— 6 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (1) in subsection (a)— 7 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (A) by striking ‘‘except for Guam’’ and in-8 |
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| 39 | 39 | | serting ‘‘except for Guam, the Commonwealth 9 |
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| 40 | 40 | | of the Northern Mariana Islands, and American 10 |
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| 41 | 41 | | Samoa’’; 11 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (B) by striking ‘‘first allot to Guam and 12 |
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| 43 | 43 | | the Virgin Islands’’ and inserting the following: 13 |
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| 44 | 44 | | ‘‘first allot— 14 |
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| 45 | 45 | | ‘‘(1) to Guam and the Virgin Islands’’; 15 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (C) by striking the period at the end and 16 |
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| 47 | 47 | | inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 17 |
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| 48 | 48 | | (D) by adding at the end the following: 18 |
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| 49 | 49 | | ‘‘(2) beginning with the first fiscal year for 19 |
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| 50 | 50 | | which the total amount available for allotments 20 |
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| 51 | 51 | | under this section is greater than the total amount 21 |
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| 52 | 52 | | available for allotments under this section for fiscal 22 |
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| 53 | 53 | | year 2025, and for each succeeding fiscal year, to 23 |
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| 54 | 54 | | each of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 24 |
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| 55 | 55 | | Islands and American Samoa, an amount which is 25 |
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| 59 | 59 | | equal to one-half of the amount allotted to Guam 1 |
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| 60 | 60 | | under paragraph (1) for the corresponding fiscal 2 |
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| 61 | 61 | | year.’’; and 3 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (2) in subsection (b)(1), in the matter following 4 |
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| 63 | 63 | | subparagraph (B), by inserting ‘‘, the Common-5 |
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| 64 | 64 | | wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American 6 |
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| 65 | 65 | | Samoa,’’ after ‘‘Guam’’. 7 |
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