PoliticalRepoPoliticalRepo

United States · Law · HR

H.R. 5139 (97th)

A bill to authorize appropriations for certain insular areas of the United States, and for other purposes.

enactedUnited States· United States Congress· EN

Introduced

8 December 1981

Last action

—

Status

Became Public Law No: 97-357.

Sponsors

—

Subjects

Discovery layer

Source updated

24 March 2026

Official sourceDownload fileView documentsShare

Summary

Title I: Guam - Amends the Organic Act of Guam to grant Guam the right of initiative and referendum. Makes the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and the members of the legislature subject to removal from office by a referendum election. Title II: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands - Changes the date by which all federally owned personal property located in the Trust Territory and all personal property owned by the Trust Territory government must be transferred to the various island governments. Title III: Virgin Islands - Authorizes appropriations for the planning of an institution for Caribbean educational, cultural, and technical interchange by the College of the Virgin Islands. Title IV: Miscellaneous - States that certain funds that have been authorized but not appropriated may remain available for appropriation in succeeding fiscal years.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

8 official files

Public Law (PDF)

View fileDownload file

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.

Sources

PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.