S.Amdt. 6685

SA 6685. Ms. MURKOWSKI submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

SEC. ___. EXCEPTION TO NON-PROCESSING RELATED FEE FOR H-1B
NONIMMIGRANTS WHO WILL BE PUBLIC SCHOOL
EMPLOYEES.

In addition to the exceptions set forth in section 1(c) of
the Presidential Proclamation 10973 (90 Fed. Reg. 46027;
relating to restriction on entry of certain nonimmigrant
workers), which was issued on September 19, 2025, petitions
filed on behalf of aliens entering the United States as
nonimmigrants to perform services in a specialty occupation
described in section 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b) of the Immigration
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b)) and who
will be working for a public school or a public school
district in the United States shall not be required to be
accompanied or supplemented by the payment of $100,000
otherwise required under section 1(a) of such Proclamation.
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