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- 83rd Session (2025)
Assembly Bill No. 472–Committee on Education
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AN ACT relating to education; prohibiting a school district from
contracting or partnering with persons or entities who charge
more than a certain amount of fees and costs related to the
employment of certain visa hol ders; and providing other
matters properly relating thereto.
Legislative Counsel’s Digest:
Existing law authorizes the board of trustees of a school district or the
governing body of a charter school to employ a teacher or instructor authorized to
teach in the United States under the teacher exchange programs authorized by laws
of the Congress of the United States. (NRS 391.070) A J -1 visa is a nonimmigrant
visa available to a foreign national who is a student, scholar, trainee, teacher,
professor, research assistant, specialist or leader in a field of specialized knowledge
or skill and who is coming temporarily to the United States for certain purposes,
including, without limitation, teaching. (8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(15)(J)) An H-1B visa is
a nonimmigrant visa available to a foreign national who is coming to the United
States for the purpose of practicing a specialty occupation. (8 U.S.C. §
1101(a)(15)(H), § 1184(i)(1)) Section 2 of this bill prohibits a school district that
employs, or intends to employ, a J -1 visa holder through a teacher exchange
program from entering into a contract or partnering with a person or entity that is a
sponsor of such a program or that recruits candidates for such a program if the total
amount of the fees and costs charged per per son who participates in, or applies to
be a candidate for, the program exceeds $10,000. Section 4 of this bill provides that
this prohibition does not apply to a contract or partnership existing on July 1, 2025,
but does apply to any renewal or extension o f such a contract or partnership after
that date.
EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN
SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Chapter 388 of NRS is hereby amended by adding
thereto the provisions set forth as sections 2 and 3 of this act.
Sec. 2. 1. A school district in this State that employs, or
intends to employ, a J -1 visa holder pursuant to a teacher
exchange program shall not enter into a contract or partner with
any person or entity that is a sponsor of su ch a program or that
recruits candidates for such a program if the total amount of fees
and costs charged per person who participates in, or applies to be
a candidate for, the program exceeds $10,000.
2. As used in this section, “J -1 visa holder” means a person
who holds a visa issued pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(15)(J).
Sec. 3. (Deleted by amendment.)
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Sec. 4. The provisions of section 2 of this act do not apply to a
contract or partnership existing on July 1, 2025, but do apply to any
renewal or extension of such a contract.
Sec. 5. 1. This section becomes effective upon passage and
approval.
2. Sections 1 to 4, inclusive, of this act become effective:
(a) Upon passage and approval for the purpose of adopting any
regulations and performing any other preparatory administrative
tasks that are necessary to carry out the provisions of this act; and
(b) On July 1, 2025, for all other purposes.
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