[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 601 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 601

     To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit local 
educational agencies to waive the reimbursement of the agency otherwise 
required for an alien to be accorded nonimmigrant status to study at a 
          public secondary school administered by the agency.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 5, 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 the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit local 
educational agencies to waive the reimbursement of the agency otherwise 
required for an alien to be accorded nonimmigrant status to study at a 
          public secondary school administered by the agency.

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

SECTION 1. WAIVER OF REIMBURSEMENT FOR PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOL COSTS.

    (a) In General.--Section 214(l)(1)(B) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1184(l)(1)(B)) (as added by section 625(a) of 
the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 
(Public Law 104-208; 110 Stat. 3009-1820)) is amended to read as 
follows:
            ``(B) at a public secondary school unless--
                    ``(i) the aggregate period of such status at such a 
                school does not exceed 12 months with respect to any 
                alien; and
                    ``(ii) the alien demonstrates that--
                            ``(I) the alien has reimbursed 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; or
                            ``(II) such agency has waived such 
                        reimbursement.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect as if included in the enactment of section 625(a) of the 
Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 
(Public Law 104-208; 110 Stat. 3009-1820).
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