[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1139 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1139

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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 13, 2013

  Mr. Owens (for himself, Mr. Gibson, Mr. Michaud, Mr. Welch, and Mr. 
    Tonko) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 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.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Strengthening America's Public 
Schools Through Promoting Foreign Investment Act''.

SEC. 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''.
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