Bill Details
HR.876 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-01-31 - Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Introduced Date
2025-01-31
Policy Area
Labor and Employment
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Sponsors
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This bill would change the Defense Base Act so that Guam is not covered by it. In simple terms, it says that Guam should not count as a “territory or possession outside the continental United States” for this law. That means the special workers’ compensation rules in the Defense Base Act would no longer apply to Guam in the same way they do in other places outside the mainland United States.
- It updates the law’s wording to make clear that Guam is excluded.
- The change affects how the Defense Base Act applies to work connected to federal contracts and overseas jobs.
- The bill is a short, technical change focused only on Guam and does not make broader changes to the rest of the law.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 876 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 876
To amend the Defense Base Act to exclude Guam.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 31, 2025
Mr. Moylan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Education and Workforce
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A BILL
To amend the Defense Base Act to exclude Guam.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
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.''.
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