Strengthening America's Public Schools Through Promoting Foreign Investment Act

Bill: 113-hr-1139
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Owens, William L. [D-NY-21]
Introduced: 2013-03-13
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Education programs funding

Elementary and secondary education

Immigrant health and welfare

Immigration status and procedures
Latest action: action_date: 2013-04-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-03-13
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Strengthening America's Public Schools Through Promoting Foreign Investment Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit a lawful alien who enters the United States on a nonimmigrant student visa (including Mexican and Canadian commuter students) to attend a U.S. public secondary school for longer than one year if such alien reimburses the local educational agency for the full, unsubsidized per capita cost of providing education at such school for the period of the alien's attendance.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1139 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 13, 2013 Mr. Owens (for himself, Mr. Gibson , Mr. Michaud , Mr. Welch , and Mr. Tonko ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To permit aliens who lawfully enter the United States on valid visas as nonimmigrant elementary and secondary school students to attend public schools in the United States for longer than 1 year if such aliens reimburse the local educational agency that administers the school for the full, unsubsidized per capita cost of providing education at such school for the period of the alien’s attendance.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Strengthening America's Public Schools Through Promoting Foreign Investment Act . 2. Nonimmigrant elementary and secondary school students Section 214(m)(1)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1184(m)(1)(B) ) is amended by striking unless— and all that follows through (ii) and inserting unless .