[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 114 (Tuesday, July 14, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Page S3957]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 6685. Ms. MURKOWSKI submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by her to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2027 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 appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. EXCEPTION TO NON-PROCESSING RELATED FEE FOR H-1B 
                   NONIMMIGRANTS WHO WILL BE PUBLIC SCHOOL 
                   EMPLOYEES.

       In addition to the exceptions set forth in section 1(c) of 
     the Presidential Proclamation 10973 (90 Fed. Reg. 46027; 
     relating to restriction on entry of certain nonimmigrant 
     workers), which was issued on September 19, 2025, petitions 
     filed on behalf of aliens entering the United States as 
     nonimmigrants to perform services in a specialty occupation 
     described in section 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b) of the Immigration 
     and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b)) and who 
     will be working for a public school or a public school 
     district in the United States shall not be required to be 
     accompanied or supplemented by the payment of $100,000 
     otherwise required under section 1(a) of such Proclamation.
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