[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
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[H.R. 6062 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.6062

                     One Hundred Eighteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
         the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-four


                                 An Act


 
   To restore the ability of the people of American Samoa to approve 
 amendments to the territorial constitution based on majority rule in a 
 democratic act of self-determination, as authorized pursuant to an Act 
of Congress delegating administration of Federal territorial law in the 
 territory to the President, and to the Secretary of the Interior under 
Executive Order 10264, dated June 29, 1951, under which the Constitution 
 of American Samoa was approved and may be amended without requirement 
 for further congressional action, subject to the authority of Congress 
 under the Territorial Clause in article IV, section 3, clause 2 of the 
                       United States Constitution.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. REMOVAL OF RESTRICTION ON AMENDMENTS TO OR MODIFICATIONS OF 
THE CONSTITUTION OF AMERICAN SAMOA.
    Section 12 of Public Law 98-213 (48 U.S.C. 1662a) is repealed.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.