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104TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 142

To amend title 10, United States Code, to prohibit any Federal grant or

contract from being awarded to any educational institution that does

not allow the Secretary of Defense to have access to students on campuses or to obtain certain student information for recruiting purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JANUARY 4, 1995

Mr. SOLOMON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on National Security and, in addition, to the Committee on Economic

and Educational Opportunities, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions

as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

A BILL

To amend title 10, United States Code, to prohibit any

Federal grant or contract from being awarded to any

educational institution that does not allow the Secretary

of Defense to have access to students on campuses or

to obtain certain student information for recruiting purposes.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Military Recruiter

5 Campus Access Act’’.
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1 SEC. 2. ACCESS TO STUDENT INFORMATION BY DEPART2 MENT OF DEFENSE.

3 (a) IN GENERAL.—(1) Chapter 49 of title 10, United

4 States Code, is amended by adding at the end the follow5 ing new section:

6 ‘‘§ 983. Student information for recruiting purposes:

7 denial of Federal grants and contracts

8 to educational institutions that prohibit

9 access

10 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Federal funds may not be made

11 available by grant or contract to any educational institu12 tion that has a policy of denying, or which effectively pre13 vents, the Secretary of Defense from obtaining for military

14 recruiting purposes—

15 ‘‘(1) entry to any campus or access to students

16 on any campus, equal to that of other employers; or

17 ‘‘(2) access to directory information pertaining

18 to students (other than in a case in which an objec19 tion has been raised under subsection (b)).

20 ‘‘(b) NOTIFICATION.—An educational institution that

21 releases directory information—

22 ‘‘(1) shall give public notice of the categories of

23 such information to be released; and

24 ‘‘(2) shall allow a reasonable period of time

25 after such notice has been given for a student or a

26 parent (in the case of an individual younger than 18
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1 years of age) to inform the agency, institution, orga2 nization, or other entity that any or all of such in3 formation should not be released without obtaining

4 prior consent from such student or such parent, as

5 the case may be.

6 ‘‘(c) PROCEDURES FOR DETERMINATION.—The Sec7 retary of Defense shall prescribe regulations that contain

8 procedures for determining if and when an educational in9 stitution has denied or prevented access to students or in10 formation described in subsection (a).

11 ‘‘(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:

12 ‘‘(1) The term ‘directory information’ means,

13 with respect to a student, the student’s name, ad14 dress, telephone listing, date and place of birth, level

15 of education, degrees received, and (if available) the

16 most recent previous educational program enrolled

17 in by the student.

18 ‘‘(2) The term ‘student’ means an individual

19 enrolled in any program of education who is 17

20 years of age or older.’’.

21 (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such

22 chapter is amended by adding at the end the following

23 new item:

‘‘983. Student information for recruiting purposes: denial of Federal grants and

contracts to educational institutions that prohibit access.’’.
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1 (b) DEADLINE FOR REGULATIONS.—The regulations

2 required to be prescribed by subsection (c) of section 983

3 of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection

4 (a), shall be prescribed not later than 60 days after the

5 date of the enactment of this Act.

6 (c) CONFORMING REPEAL.—Section 558 of the Na7 tional Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995

8 (Public Law 103–337; 108 Stat. 2776) is repealed.

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