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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2374 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend section 505 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant |
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| 6 | 6 | | Responsibility Act of 1996 to prohibit the provision of Federal financial |
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| 7 | 7 | | assistance to public institutions of higher education that provide certain |
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| 8 | 8 | | higher education benefits to aliens who are not lawfully present in the |
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| 9 | 9 | | United States, and for other purposes. |
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| 10 | 10 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 11 | 11 | | MARCH26, 2025 |
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| 12 | 12 | | Ms. M |
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| 13 | 13 | | ACE(for herself, Mr. HARRISof Maryland, and Ms. BOEBERT) intro- |
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| 14 | 14 | | duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Ju- |
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| 15 | 15 | | diciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Workforce, |
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| 16 | 16 | | for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case |
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| 17 | 17 | | for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the |
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| 18 | 18 | | committee concerned |
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| 19 | 19 | | A BILL |
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| 20 | 20 | | To amend section 505 of the Illegal Immigration Reform |
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| 21 | 21 | | and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to prohibit |
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| 22 | 22 | | the provision of Federal financial assistance to public |
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| 23 | 23 | | institutions of higher education that provide certain high- |
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| 24 | 24 | | er education benefits to aliens who are not lawfully |
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| 25 | 25 | | present in the United States, and for other purposes. |
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| 26 | 26 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 27 | 27 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1 |
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| 32 | 32 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘American Students 2 |
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| 33 | 33 | | First Act’’. 3 |
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| 34 | 34 | | SEC. 2. RESTRICTING HIGHER EDUCATION BENEFITS FOR 4 |
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| 35 | 35 | | ALIENS NOT LAWFULLY PRESENT. 5 |
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| 36 | 36 | | Section 505 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and 6 |
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| 37 | 37 | | Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1623) is 7 |
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| 38 | 38 | | amended— 8 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (1) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘This section’’ 9 |
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| 40 | 40 | | and inserting ‘‘Subsection (a)’’; and 10 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (2) by adding at the end the following: 11 |
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| 42 | 42 | | ‘‘(c) P |
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| 43 | 43 | | ROHIBITION ONFEDERALFINANCIALASSIST-12 |
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| 44 | 44 | | ANCE.— 13 |
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| 45 | 45 | | ‘‘(1) I |
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| 46 | 46 | | N GENERAL.—A public institution of 14 |
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| 47 | 47 | | higher education in a State may not receive any 15 |
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| 48 | 48 | | Federal financial assistance for the fiscal year fol-16 |
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| 49 | 49 | | lowing any fiscal year in which the Secretary of 17 |
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| 50 | 50 | | Education determines that the institution is an ineli-18 |
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| 51 | 51 | | gible institution under paragraph (2). 19 |
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| 52 | 52 | | ‘‘(2) I |
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| 53 | 53 | | NELIGIBILITY.—A public institution of 20 |
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| 54 | 54 | | higher education in a State is an ineligible institu-21 |
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| 55 | 55 | | tion for purposes of this subsection if the institu-22 |
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| 56 | 56 | | tion— 23 |
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| 57 | 57 | | ‘‘(A) charges an alien who is not lawfully 24 |
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| 58 | 58 | | present in the United States tuition for attend-25 |
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| 59 | 59 | | ance at the institution at a rate that is less 26 |
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| 62 | 62 | | •HR 2374 IH |
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| 63 | 63 | | than or equal to the rate charged for residents 1 |
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| 64 | 64 | | of the State who are citizens of the United 2 |
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| 65 | 65 | | States; or 3 |
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| 66 | 66 | | ‘‘(B) provides State-based financial aid to 4 |
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| 67 | 67 | | an alien who is not lawfully present in the 5 |
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| 68 | 68 | | United States. 6 |
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| 69 | 69 | | ‘‘(3) D |
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| 70 | 70 | | EFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 7 |
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| 71 | 71 | | ‘‘(A) The term ‘Federal financial assist-8 |
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| 72 | 72 | | ance’ has the meaning given such term in sec-9 |
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| 73 | 73 | | tion 7501(a)(5) of title 31, United States Code. 10 |
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| 74 | 74 | | ‘‘(B) The term ‘institution of higher edu-11 |
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| 75 | 75 | | cation’ has the meaning given such term in sec-12 |
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| 76 | 76 | | tion 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 13 |
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| 77 | 77 | | (20 U.S.C. 1001). 14 |
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| 78 | 78 | | ‘‘(C) The term ‘State’ has the meaning 15 |
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| 79 | 79 | | given such term in section 103 of the Higher 16 |
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| 80 | 80 | | Education Act of 1964 (20 U.S.C. 1003).’’. 17 |
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