Strengthening America's Public Schools Through Promoting Foreign Investment Act

Bill: 115-hr-7132
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2018-11-14
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Education programs funding

Elementary and secondary education

Immigrant health and welfare

Immigration status and procedures

Visas and passports
Latest action: action_date: 2018-11-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-11-14
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Strengthening America's Public Schools Through Promoting Foreign Investment Act</b></p> <p>This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit a nonimmigrant foreign exchange student to attend a U.S. public elementary, secondary, or a publicly funded adult education program for more than one year if such student pays the full unsubsidized tuition. (Under current law such students are limited to one year's attendance. Such restriction does not apply to private school students.)</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7132 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 14, 2018 Mr. Welch 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 .