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To amend the Defense Base Act to exclude Guam.

To amend the Defense Base Act to exclude Guam.

Introduced Jan 31, 2025

Latest action (Jan 31, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

Referred to
Education and Workforce Committee
Policy area
Labor and Employment
Issues
Labor & Wages

Summary

This bill would amend the Defense Base Act to exclude Guam from its coverage. Currently, the Defense Base Act applies to certain workers in territories and possessions outside the continental United States; this change would remove Guam from that designation. The effect would be that civilian employees and contractors working in Guam would no longer be covered under the Defense Base Act's workers' compensation provisions.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)

Actions (2)
  1. Jan 31, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. · house
  2. Jan 31, 2025 Introduced in House

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Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 31, 2025

Mr. Moylan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce

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.”. <all>

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