§1983 Approval of 2023 Agreement to Amend the U.s.-fsm Compact, 2023 Agreement to Amend the U.s.-rmi Compact, 2023 U.s.-palau Compact Review Agreement, and Subsidiary Agreements

Summary

Approves several 2023 compact agreements between the United States and the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. The 2023 Agreement to Amend the U.S.-FSM Compact and the 2023 U.S.-FSM Trust Fund Agreement submitted on June 15, 2023 are approved and made part of the law. Congress also agrees to the 2023 U.S.-FSM Fiscal Procedures Agreement (submitted June 15, 2023) and the 2023 U.S.-FSM Federal Programs and Services Agreement. The 2023 Agreement to Amend the U.S.-RMI Compact and the 2023 U.S.-RMI Trust Fund Agreement submitted on October 17, 2023 are approved and made part of the law, and Congress agrees to the 2023 U.S.-RMI Fiscal Procedures Agreement (submitted October 17, 2023). The 2023 U.S.-Palau Compact Review Agreement submitted on June 15, 2023 is approved. In each case the President may put the approved agreements into force and start them, despite section 1921(f). Any change or end to any part of the 2023 Amended U.S.-FSM Compact, 2023 Amended U.S.-RMI Compact, or the U.S.-Palau Compact cannot take effect until Congress has passed a law that includes that change. That rule also covers U.S. actions under sections 431, 441, or 442 of those compacts and the listed subsidiary agreements and articles, including agreements or items in sections 462(a)(2), 462(a)(5), 265, 177, 462(b)(6), 462(h), 462(b)(7), and 462(i) as described in the law. Any other change to a subsidiary agreement (not covered above) cannot take effect until 90 days after the President sends the agreement, an explanation, the reasons, and, when it affects section 462(b)(3) of the FSM or RMI compacts, a Secretary of Labor statement on necessity and impacts to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Certain notification rules (section 1931(c)(2)(A) and (D)(iii) and subsection (d)(2)(A)) do not apply to changes to the agreement in section 462(f) of the U.S.-Palau Compact.