Student Exchange Program Parity Act

Student Exchange Program Parity Act

This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the one-year limitation on the period of time an alien may be accorded nonimmigrant student status, including Mexican and Canadian full- or part-time commuting students, to study at a public secondary school.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3689 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3689

 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the 1-year 
limitation on the period of time an alien may be accorded nonimmigrant 
 status to study at a public secondary school, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 6, 2017

Mr. MacArthur introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the 1-year 
limitation on the period of time an alien may be accorded nonimmigrant 
 status to study at a public secondary school, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Student Exchange Program Parity 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PURPOSE.

    The purposes of this Act are as follows:
            (1) To make equal the length of time a public secondary 
        school and a private secondary school may enroll a foreign 
        exchange student.
            (2) To benefit cultural exchange between the United States 
        and students from abroad.
            (3) To emphasize that visiting foreign public secondary 
        school students must reimburse local educational agencies for 
        the full cost of their education while in the United States.

SEC. 3. NONIMMIGRANT STATUS TO STUDY AT A PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOL.

    (a) In General.--Section 214(m)(1)(B) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1184(m)(1)(B)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(B) at a public secondary school unless the alien 
        demonstrates that the alien has reimbursed 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.''.
    (b) Technical Correction.--Section 101(a)(15)(F)(i) of such Act (8 
U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(F)(i)) is amended by striking ``214(l)'' and 
inserting ``214(m)''.
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