I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1091 
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct 
local educational agencies to release secondary school student information 
to military recruiters if the student’s parent provides written consent 
for the release, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 13, 2009 
Mr. HONDA (for himself, Mr. PAUL, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. 
OLVER, Mr. CLEAVER, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. WAXMAN, Mr. CONYERS, Ms. 
WOOLSEY, Mr. NADLER of New York, Mrs. CAPPS, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. 
DEFAZIO, Ms. BERKLEY, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. DELAHUNT, Mrs. 
MALONEY, Mr. KAGEN, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. AL 
GREEN of Texas, Mr. SIRES, Mr. MEEKS of New York, Ms. MOORE of 
Wisconsin, Mr. STARK, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. WELCH, and Mr. ROTHMAN 
of New Jersey) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Education and Labor 
A BILL 
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 
of 1965 to direct local educational agencies to release 
secondary school student information to military recruit-
ers if the student’s parent provides written consent for 
the release, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Student Privacy Pro-
tection Act of 2009’’. 
SEC. 2. ACCESS BY MILITARY RECRUITERS TO SECONDARY 
SCHOOL STUDENT INFORMATION. 
(a) AMENDMENTS.—Section 9528 of the Elementary 
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7908) 
is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsections (a) through (d) 
as subsections (b) through (e), respectively; 
(2) by inserting before subsection (b) (as so re-
designated) the following: 
‘‘(a) MILITARY RECRUITERS.— 
‘‘(1) ACCESS TO STUDENT RECRUITING INFOR-
MATION.—Notwithstanding section 503(c) of title 
10, United States Code, each local educational agen-
cy receiving assistance under this Act shall provide, 
on a request made by military recruiters, access to 
the name, address, and telephone listing of each sec-
ondary student served by the agency if the parent of 
the student involved has provided written consent to 
the agency for the release of such information to 
military recruiters. 
‘‘(2) NOTICE; OPPORTUNITY TO CONSENT.—A 
local educational agency receiving assistance under 
this Act shall— 
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‘‘(A) notify the parent of each secondary 
school student served by the agency of the op-
tion to consent to the release of the student’s 
name, address, and telephone listing to military 
recruiters; and 
‘‘(B) give the parent an opportunity to 
provide such consent in writing.’’; 
(3) in subsection (b) (as so redesignated)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘POLICY.—’’ and inserting 
‘‘INSTITUTIONS
OF HIGHER EDUCATION.—’’; 
and 
(B) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘military 
recruiters or’’; and 
(4) by transferring paragraph (3) of subsection 
(b) (as so redesignated) from the end of such sub-
section to the end of subsection (a) (as added by 
paragraph (2)). 
(b) APPLICATION.—The amendments made by this 
Act apply only with respect to school years beginning after 
the date of the enactment of this Act. 
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