[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 127 (Monday, July 20, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S4292]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2452. Ms. WARREN (for Mr. Markey (for himself, Ms. Warren, Mr. 
Booker, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Menendez, Ms. 
Baldwin, Mr. Whitehouse, and Ms. Hirono)) submitted an amendment 
intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2301 proposed by Mr. Inhofe to 
the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2021 for 
military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the end of subtitle G of title XII, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. 128__. ONLINE AND DISTANCE EDUCATION CLASSES AND 
                   NONIMMIGRANT VISAS.

       (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, during the period described in subsection (b), an 
     international student described in subparagraph (F), (J), or 
     (M) of section 101(a)(15) of the Immigration and Nationality 
     Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)) may engage in online or distance 
     education classes or programs that are determined necessary 
     by an institution or program described in any such 
     subparagraph for the protection of health and safety. Such 
     classes or programs shall count towards the requirement to 
     pursue a full course of study for the student to maintain 
     nonimmigrant status.
       (b) Period Described.--The period described in this 
     subsection is the period--
       (1) beginning on March 13, 2020; and
       (2) ending on the later of--
       (A) June 30, 2021; or
       (B) the date that is 90 days after the date on which the 
     public health emergency declared by the Secretary of Health 
     and Human Services due to the COVID-19 pandemic under section 
     319 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d) is 
     terminated.
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