Northern Mariana Islands Workforce Stabilization Act
Latest action · Oct 1, 2018 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJul 26, 2018
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Northern Mariana Islands Workforce Stabilization Act
This bill establishes a process under which certain long-term residents of the Northern Mariana Islands who are workers or investors with specified temporary visas may obtain lawful permanent resident status.
Cosponsors 36
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 26, 2018 to Oct 12, 2018; 14 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NJ | Albio Sires | Original | Jul 26, 2018 |
| D-CA | Anna G. Eshoo | Original | Jul 26, 2018 |
| D-NJ | Bonnie Watson Coleman | Original | Jul 26, 2018 |
| D-HI | Colleen Hanabusa | Original | Jul 26, 2018 |
| D-CA | Grace F. Napolitano | Original | Jul 26, 2018 |
| D-NY | Grace Meng | Original | Jul 26, 2018 |
| D-CA | J. Luis Correa | Original | Jul 26, 2018 |
| D-IL | Luis V. Gutierrez | Original | Jul 26, 2018 |
| D-CA | Mark Takano | Original | Jul 26, 2018 |
| D-NY | Nydia M. Velázquez | Original | Jul 26, 2018 |
| D-AZ | Ruben Gallego | Original | Jul 26, 2018 |
| D-NV | Ruben J. Kihuen | Original | Jul 26, 2018 |
| D-CA | Salud O. Carbajal | Original | Jul 26, 2018 |
| D-CA | Zoe Lofgren | Original | Jul 26, 2018 |
| D-NY | Adriano Espaillat | Jul 27, 2018 | |
| D-CA | Jimmy Gomez | Jul 27, 2018 | |
| D-CA | Lucille Roybal-Allard | Jul 27, 2018 | |
| D-CA | Juan Vargas | Jul 31, 2018 | |
| D-CA | Judy Chu | Jul 31, 2018 | |
| D-AZ | Raúl M. Grijalva | Jul 31, 2018 | |
| R-AK | Don Young | Aug 14, 2018 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Aug 14, 2018 | |
| D-GA | Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. | Aug 14, 2018 | |
| D-TX | Sheila Jackson Lee | Aug 14, 2018 | |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Aug 21, 2018 | |
| D-CA | Jackie Speier | Aug 21, 2018 | |
| D-NY | Yvette D. Clarke | Aug 21, 2018 | |
| D-GA | Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. | Sep 4, 2018 | |
| D-VI | Stacey E. Plaskett | Sep 4, 2018 | |
| D-MN | Collin C. Peterson | Sep 5, 2018 | |
| D-MN | Richard M. Nolan | Sep 7, 2018 | |
| D-GU | Madeleine Z. Bordallo | Sep 10, 2018 | |
| D-TX | Gene Green | Sep 13, 2018 | |
| D-MA | Michael E. Capuano | Sep 13, 2018 | |
| D-NJ | Frank Pallone, Jr. | Oct 12, 2018 | |
| D-NY | Gregory W. Meeks | Oct 12, 2018 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Natural Resources Committee | Referred Jul 26, 2018 |
| Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee | Referred Aug 13, 2018 | |
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Jul 26, 2018 |
| Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee | Referred Oct 1, 2018 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Oct 1, 2018Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
- Aug 13, 2018Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
- Jul 26, 2018Introduced in House
- Jul 26, 2018Referred 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.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 164, no. 126, July 26, 2018, page H7726.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend section 6 of the Joint Resolution entitled "A Joint Resolution to approve the Covenant To Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America, and for other purposes".
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Northern Mariana Islands Workforce Stabilization Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Immigration.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 26, 2018Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
