[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2331 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2331

    To provide a limited waiver for certain foreign students of the 
 requirement to reimburse local educational agencies for the costs of 
                        the students' education.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 17, 1998

   Mr. Lugar introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To provide a limited waiver for certain foreign students of the 
 requirement to reimburse local educational agencies for the costs of 
                        the students' education.

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

SECTION 1. LIMITED WAIVER OF REIMBURSEMENT REQUIREMENT FOR CERTAIN 
              FOREIGN STUDENTS.

    Section 214(l)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1184(l)(1)), as added by section 625(a)(1) of the Illegal Immigration 
Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (110 Stat. 3009-699), 
is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (B), by redesignating clauses (i) and 
        (ii) as subclauses (I) and (II), respectively;
            (2) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) as clauses 
        (i) and (ii), respectively;
            (3) by striking ``(l)(1)'' and inserting ``(l)(1)(A)''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
    ``(B) The Attorney General shall waive the application of 
subparagraph (A) for an alien seeking to pursue a course of study in a 
school served by a local educational agency (as defined in section 
14101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
8801) if the agency determines and certifies to the Attorney General 
that such waiver will promote the educational interest of the agency 
and will not impose an undue financial burden on the agency.''.
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