HELP Act of 2021

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6136 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6136

  To extend duty-free treatment provided with respect to imports from 
 Haiti under the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 2, 2021

   Ms. Salazar (for herself, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Mr. Gimenez, Mr. 
   Jones, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Crawford, Mrs. Murphy of Florida, Mr. 
  Murphy of North Carolina, Mr. Diaz-Balart, Mr. Rutherford, and Mr. 
   Gohmert) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
  To extend duty-free treatment provided with respect to imports from 
 Haiti under the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Haiti Economic Lift Program 
Extension Act of 2021'' or the ``HELP Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF SPECIAL RULES FOR HAITI UNDER CARIBBEAN BASIN 
              ECONOMIC RECOVERY ACT.

    Section 213A of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (19 
U.S.C. 2703a) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)(1)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (B)(v)(I)--
                            (i) by striking ``means'' and all that 
                        follows through ``60 percent'' and inserting 
                        ``means 60 percent''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``7 succeeding 1-year 
                        periods'' and inserting ``17 succeeding 1-year 
                        periods''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (C)--
                            (i) in the table, by striking ``16 
                        succeeding 1-year periods'' and inserting ``28 
                        succeeding 1-year periods''; and
                            (ii) in the matter following the table, by 
                        striking ``2025'' and inserting ``2035''; and
            (2) in subsection (h), by striking ``2025'' and inserting 
        ``2035''.
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