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To amend the Defense Base Act to exclude Guam.

H.R. 876 · 119th Congress · Jan 31, 2025 · Lineage

A BILL

Section 1 Inapplicability of Defense Base Act to Guam

Subsection (b) of section 1 of the Defense Base Act (Chapter 357; 55 Stat. 622; 42 U.S.C. 1651) is amended—
(1)
in paragraph (4), by striking the period at the end and inserting “and Guam;”; and
(2)
by adding at the end the following new paragraph:

“(5) the term “Territory or possession outside the continental United States” does not include Guam.”