S. 823 (112th): Strengthening America’s Public Schools Through Promoting Foreign Investment Act

Introduced:
Apr 14, 2011 (112th Congress, 2011–2013)
Sponsor:
Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY]
Status:
Died (Referred to Committee)
See Instead:

H.R. 3983 (same title)
Referred to Committee — Feb 08, 2012

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Status

This bill was introduced on April 14, 2011, in a previous session of Congress, but was not enacted.

Progress
Introduced Apr 14, 2011
Referred to Committee Apr 14, 2011
Cosponsors
4 cosponsors (3D, 1R) (show)
Committees

Senate Judiciary

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Full Title

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.

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Last updated Apr 14, 2011.
2 pages

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4/14/2011--Introduced.
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.

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  • Title 8: ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
  • Chapter 12: IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
  • Subchapter II: IMMIGRATION
  • Part II: Admission Qualifications for Aliens; Travel Control of Citizens and Aliens
  • Section 1184: Admission of nonimmigrants