[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2172 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2172

 To amend Immigration and Nationality Act to make the restrictions on 
   foreign student study at a public elementary or secondary school 
  inapplicable in cases where the school evidences a desire for such 
  result, and to prohibit the use of Federal funds to pay the cost of 
                              such study.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 16, 1997

  Mr. Frank of Massachusetts introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend Immigration and Nationality Act to make the restrictions on 
   foreign student study at a public elementary or secondary school 
  inapplicable in cases where the school evidences a desire for such 
  result, and to prohibit the use of Federal funds to pay the cost of 
                              such study.

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

SEC. 1. APPLICATION OF RESTRICTIONS ON FOREIGN STUDENTS AT OPTION OF 
              SCHOOL.

    (a) In General.--Section 214(l) of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act (8 U.S.C. 1184(l)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``An alien'' and 
        inserting ``Subject to paragraph (3), an alien'';
            (2) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) by striking ``public elementary school,'' and 
                inserting ``public elementary school (unless the 
                requirements of paragraph (3) are met),''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``or (3)'' after ``(1)(B)''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(3)(A) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to an alien with respect to 
studies at a public elementary or secondary school, if the alien 
submits to the Attorney General, in such time and manner as the 
Attorney General shall specify, credible evidence that the school 
desires to enroll the alien, or continue the enrollment of the alien, 
in a course of study at the school without the alien's being subject to 
the limitations under the paragraph.
    ``(B) A public elementary or secondary school enrolling an alien 
accorded status as a nonimmigrant under section 101(a)(15)(F)(i) 
pursuant to subparagraph (A) may not use any Federal funds to pay any 
cost associated with such enrollment.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsections (a) shall 
take effect as if included in the enactment of the Illegal Immigration 
Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-208; 
110 Stat. 3009-546).
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