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H.R. 1139: Strengthening America's Public Schools Through Promoting Foreign Investment Act

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H.R. 1139: Strengthening America's Public Schools Through Promoting Foreign Investment Act

113th Congress · introduced 2013-03-13 · Immigration · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2013-03-13 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Owens, William L. [D-NY-21] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Strengthening America's Public Schools Through Promoting Foreign Investment Act

Plain summary

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 Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

Strengthening America's Public Schools Through Promoting Foreign Investment Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Owens, William L. [D-NY-21] · 7 cosponsors

Cost estimate: No cost estimate published yet.

Cosponsors on this site

Peter Welch (D-VT), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Marc A. Veasey (D-TX)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong113-hr1139 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong113 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong113