[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 677 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 677

   To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide a limited 
waiver of a requirement for reimbursement of local educational agencies 
     for the costs of foreign students' education in certain cases.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 22, 1999

   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 amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide a limited 
waiver of a requirement for reimbursement of local educational agencies 
     for the costs of foreign students' education in certain cases.

    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)(ii) for an alien seeking to pursue a course of study 
in a public secondary 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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