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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 375
To deny funds to programs that do not allow the Secretary of Defense
access to students on campuses or to certain student information for
recruiting purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 5, 1993
Mr. SOLOMON (for himself, Mr. TAUZIN, Mr. WALKER, and Mr. TRAFICANT)
introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly to the Committees
on Education and Labor and Armed Services
A BILL
To deny funds to programs that do not allow the Secretary
of Defense access to students on campuses or to certain
student information for recruiting purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION. 1. ACCESS TO STUDENT INFORMATION.
(a) IN GENERAL.—
(1) DENIAL OF FUNDS.—Notwithstanding any
other provision of law, no funds shall be made avail-
able under any applicable program to any agency,
institution, organization, or other entity that has a
policy of denying, or which effectively prevents, the
Secretary of Defense from obtaining for military re-
cruiting purposes—
(A) entry to campuses or access to stu-
dents on campuses; or
(B) access to directory information per-
taining to students unless an objection has been
raised under the provisions of paragraph (2).
(2) NOTIFICATION.—Any educational agency,
institution, organization, or other entity that re-
leases directory information—
(A) shall give public notice of the cat-
egories of such information to be released; and
(B) shall allow a reasonable period of time
after such notice has been given for a student
or a parent (in the case of an individual young-
er than 18 years of age) to inform the agency,
institution, organization, or other entity that
any or all of such information should not be re-
leased without obtaining prior consent from
such student or such parent, as the case may
be.
(3) STATUTORY
CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in
this subsection shall be construed to require stu-
dents to attend recruitment events.
(b) PROCEDURES FOR DETERMINATION.—
(1) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary of Defense,
in consultation with the Secretary of Education,
shall issue regulations within 10 days after the date
of the enactment of this Act.
(2) PROCEDURES.—Such regulations shall con-
tain procedures for determining if and when an
agency, institution, organization, or other entity re-
ceiving funds under any applicable program has de-
nied or prevented access to students or information
described in subsection (a).
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This Act shall apply retro-
actively to the extent determined feasible by the Secretary
of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of Edu-
cation.
(d) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this Act:
(1) APPLICABLE PROGRAM.—The term ‘‘appli-
cable program’’ has the meaning given such term
under section 400(c)(1)(A) of the General Education
Provisions Act.
(2) DIRECTORY INFORMATION.—The term ‘‘di-
rectory information’’ means, with respect to a stu-
dent, the student’s name, address, telephone listing,
date and place of birth, level of education, degrees
received, and the most recent previous applicable
program enrolled in by the student.
(3) STUDENTS.—The term ‘‘students’’ means
individuals enrolled in any applicable program who
are 17 years of age or older.
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