Report Title:
Nonimmigrant Alien Students
Description:
Prohibits the DOE from awarding a high school diploma, or its adult equivalent, to a nonimmigrant alien unless the alien has reimbursed the DOE for the full, unsubsidized per capita cost of providing the alien with a public education, for the period of the alien's attendance in a public school.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
331 |
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to nonimmigrant students.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Chapter 302A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§302A- Nonimmigrant alien secondary school students. (a) The department shall not award a high school diploma, or its adult equivalent, to a nonimmigrant alien unless the nonimmigrant alien has reimbursed the department for the full, unsubsidized per capita cost of providing the nonimmigrant alien with a public education, for the period of the nonimmigrant alien's attendance in a public school.
(b) For the purposes of this section only, "alien" means any person not a citizen or national of the United States.
(c) This section shall not apply to the immediate family and household members of a nonimmigrant alien who has been granted a diplomatic visa."
SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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