Bill Text: TX SB1009 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to requiring public institutions of higher education to notify the federal Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) regarding the withdrawal or nonattendance of certain foreign students.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [SB1009 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1009-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 1009 | ||
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| relating to requiring public institutions of higher education to | ||
| notify the federal Student and Exchange Visitor Information System | ||
| (SEVIS) regarding the withdrawal or nonattendance of certain | ||
| foreign students. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 51.9091 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 51.9091. REQUIRED NOTIFICATION OF FEDERAL STUDENT AND | ||
| EXCHANGE VISITOR INFORMATION SYSTEM (SEVIS) REGARDING WITHDRAWAL | ||
| OR NONATTENDANCE OF CERTAIN FOREIGN STUDENTS. A public institution | ||
| of higher education that is certified by the United States | ||
| secretary of homeland security to enroll a foreign student admitted | ||
| into the United States under a nonimmigrant F or M visa shall | ||
| promptly notify the federal Student and Exchange Visitor | ||
| Information System (SEVIS) or a successor program if: | ||
| (1) a student enrolled under an F or M visa withdraws | ||
| from the institution or withdraws from all courses in which the | ||
| student is enrolled; or | ||
| (2) the institution dismisses a student enrolled under | ||
| an F or M visa for nonattendance or takes any other official | ||
| administrative action in regard to the student as a result of the | ||
| student's nonattendance. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1009 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 7, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1009 passed the House on | ||
| May 25, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 133, Nays 13, one | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
