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H.R. 4370 114th Congress House

Compact Impact Relief Act of 2016

Official title: To comprehensively address the challenges of providing public services to citizens of the Freely Associated States in the United States, and for other purposes.

Introduced: January 12, 2016 See on congress.gov
Government Operations and Politics American SamoaEducation programs fundingElementary and secondary educationGovernment studies and investigations
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GuamHawaiiHousing and community development fundingMarshall IslandsMedicaidMicronesiaNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauProperty taxState and local taxationU.S. territories and protectorates
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 Everywhere this bill has been 7 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 23, 2016
Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
Feb 12, 2016
Referred to the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.
Jan 19, 2016
Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
Jan 15, 2016
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jan 12, 2016
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Financial Services, Foreign Affairs, and Natural Resources, 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.
Jan 12, 2016
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H289-290, E35-36)
Jan 12, 2016
Introduced in House
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 Latest action March 23, 2016

Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Compact Impact Relief Act of 2016

This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to make quarterly increases in the federal medical assistance percentage, under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, to cover expenditures for medical assistance provided to qualified nonimmigrants under the Compact of Free Association by American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or the State of Hawaii.

The bill amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to make local educational agencies eligible for impact aid (aid to jurisdictions that lose property tax revenue due to federal activities or location within tax-exempt federal areas) for educating alien children admitted to the United States as citizens of one of the Freely Associated States.

The bill amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1980 to grant a preference to citizens and nationals of the United States within Guam or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in the receipt of housing assistance over any non-resident alien.

The bill directs the Department of State to contract with an eligible organization to conduct an independent assessment of the strategic importance of the relationship between the United States and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4370: Compact Impact Relief Act of 2016. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-4370/
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