Ends the Optional Practical Training (OPT) pathway that lets some international students work after finishing study and bars any successor student work‑authorization program created by agencies. It also raises and tightens wage and placement rules for H‑1B visas, including a $150,000 minimum salary floor in the first year and stricter limits on H‑1B placements at third‑party client sites.

The bill also includes findings about H‑1B and OPT effects on U.S. workers and a rule preventing federal agencies from using this law as authority to create new, unauthorized work‑authorization programs. Pending OPT applications would be denied and fees refunded on enactment.