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116th Congress(2019-2020)
Compact Impact Fairness Act of 2020
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H. R. 8911 (Introduced-in-House)


116th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 8911


To amend the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to provide public benefits to citizens of the freely associated states, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

December 9, 2020

Mr. Case (for himself, Mr. Womack, Mr. San Nicolas, Mrs. Radewagen, Mr. Smith of Washington, and Mr. Sablan) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform

A BILL

To amend the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to provide public benefits to citizens of the freely associated states, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the “Compact Impact Fairness Act of 2020”.

SEC. 2. Public benefits for citizens of freely associated states.

Section 431(b) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1641(b)) is amended—

(1) in paragraph (6), by striking “or” at the end;

(2) in paragraph (7), by striking the period at the end and inserting “; or”; and

(3) by adding at the end the following:

“(8) a citizen of a freely associated state, if section 141 of the applicable compact of free association approved in Public Law 99–239 or 99–658 (or a successor provision) is in effect.”.

SEC. 3. Application.

(a) In general.—Subtitle D of title IV of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1641 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“SEC. 437. Special rule for citizens of freely associated states.

“In the case of an alien described in paragraph (8) of section 431(b), any otherwise applicable residency requirement related to eligibility for benefits shall not apply.”.

(b) Clerical amendment.—The table of contents for the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 is amended by inserting after the item related to section 436 the following:


“437. Special rule for citizens of freely associated states. ”.