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104TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1118
To amend title 10, United States Code, to prohibit any Federal grant or
contract from being awarded to any institution of higher education that
does not allow the Secretary of Defense to maintain or establish Senior
Reserve Officer Training Corps units at that institution.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 2, 1995
Mr. POMBO (for himself and Mr. DOOLITTLE) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on National Security
A BILL
To amend title 10, United States Code, to prohibit any
Federal grant or contract from being awarded to any
institution of higher education that does not allow the
Secretary of Defense to maintain or establish Senior
Reserve Officer Training Corps units at that institution.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘ROTC Campus Access
Act’’.
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SEC. 2. ROTC ACCESS TO CAMPUSES.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 49 of title 10, United
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the follow-
ing new section:
‘‘§ 983. Institutions of higher education that prohibit
Senior ROTC units: denial of Federal
grants and contracts
‘‘(a) DENIAL
OF FEDERAL GRANTS
AND CON-
TRACTS.—(1) Federal funds may not be made available
by contract or by grant (including a grant of funds to be
available for student aid) to any institution of higher edu-
cation that, as determined by the Secretary of Defense,
has an anti-ROTC policy and at which, as determined by
the Secretary, the Secretary would otherwise maintain or
seek to establish a unit of the Senior Reserve Officer
Training Corps or at which the Secretary would otherwise
enroll or seek to enroll students for participation in a unit
of the Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps at another
nearby institution of higher education.
‘‘(2) In the case of an institution of higher education
that is ineligible for Federal grants and contracts by rea-
son of paragraph (1), the prohibition under that para-
graph shall cease to apply to that institution upon a deter-
mination by the Secretary that the institution no longer
has an anti-ROTC policy.
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‘‘(b) NOTICE OF DETERMINATION.—Whenever the
Secretary makes a determination under subsection (a)
that an institution has an anti-ROTC policy, or that an
institution previously determined to have an anti-ROTC
policy no longer has such a policy, the Secretary—
‘‘(1) shall transmit notice of that determination
to the Secretary of Education and to the Committee
on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee
on National Security of the House of Representa-
tives; and
‘‘(2) shall publish in the Federal Register notice
of that determination and of the effect of that deter-
mination under subsection (a)(1) on the eligibility of
that institution for Federal grants and contracts.
‘‘(c) SEMIANNUAL
NOTICE
IN
FEDERAL
REG-
ISTER.—The Secretary shall publish in the Federal Reg-
ister once every six months a list of each institution of
higher education that is currently ineligible for Federal
grants and contracts by reason of a determination of the
Secretary under subsection (a).
‘‘(d) ANTI-ROTC POLICY.—In this section, the term
‘anti-ROTC policy’ means a policy or practice of an insti-
tution of higher education that—
‘‘(1) prohibits, or in effect prevents, the Sec-
retary of Defense from maintaining or establishing
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a unit of the Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps
at that institution, or
‘‘(2) prohibits, or in effect prevents, a student
at that institution from enrolling in a unit of the
Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps at another in-
stitution of higher education.’’.
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections
at the beginning of such chapter is amended by adding
at the end the following new item:
‘‘983. Institutions of higher education that prohibit Senior ROTC units: denial
of Federal grants and contracts.’’.
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