Legislation aimed at barring people and agents of countries deemed hostile to U.S. interests from owning land in Texas leaped closer to becoming law.

The bill would overturn a two-decade-old law allowing some undocumented college students to pay in-state tuition.

Lawmakers in the Texas House of Representatives have advanced a bill that, if approved by the state Senate, will prohibit citizens of China, Iran, North Korea and Russia from buying real estate in the state—and would give the governor broad power to add any other nation he wants to that list.