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HR 3983 112th Congress House Immigration Elementary and secondary education Immigrant health and welfare Immigration status and procedures

Strengthening America's Public Schools Through Promoting Foreign Investment Act

Introduced: February 8, 2012 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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Became law
Feb 16, 2012
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
Feb 8, 2012
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Feb 8, 2012
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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.

What's happening now February 16, 2012

Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 2
HINCHEY, MAURICE
· Feb 8, 2012
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Tonko, Paul
New York · Feb 8, 2012
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Welch, Peter
Vermont · Feb 8, 2012
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 3983: Strengthening America's Public Schools Through Promoting Foreign Investment Act. 112th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/112-HR-3983/
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"H.R. 3983: Strengthening America's Public Schools Through Promoting Foreign Investment Act." 112th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/112-HR-3983/.
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H.R. 3983, 112th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/112-HR-3983/.
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