Strengthening America's Public Schools Through Promoting Foreign Investment Act

Strengthening America's Public Schools Through Promoting Foreign Investment Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit a lawful alien who enters the United States on a nonimmigrant student visa (including Mexican and Canadian commuter students) to attend a U.S. public secondary school for longer than one year if such alien reimburses the local educational agency for the full, unsubsidized per capita cost of providing education at such school for the period of the alien's attendance.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3983 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3983

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

                            February 8, 2012

Mr. Owens (for himself, Mr. Welch, Mr. Gibson, Mr. Michaud, Mr. Tonko, 
 and Mr. Hinchey) 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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