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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 cam-
puses 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 Commit-
tee on National Security and, in addition, to the Committee on Economic
and Educational Opportunities, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined 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 pur-
poses.
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 ‘‘Military Recruiter
Campus Access Act’’.
SEC. 2. ACCESS TO STUDENT INFORMATION BY DEPART-
MENT OF DEFENSE.
(a) IN GENERAL.—(1) Chapter 49 of title 10, United
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the follow-
ing new section:
‘‘§ 983. Student information for recruiting purposes:
denial of Federal grants and contracts
to educational institutions that prohibit
access
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Federal funds may not be made
available by grant or contract to any educational institu-
tion that has a policy of denying, or which effectively pre-
vents, the Secretary of Defense from obtaining for military
recruiting purposes—
‘‘(1) entry to any campus or access to students
on any campus, equal to that of other employers; or
‘‘(2) access to directory information pertaining
to students (other than in a case in which an objec-
tion has been raised under subsection (b)).
‘‘(b) NOTIFICATION.—An educational institution that
releases directory information—
‘‘(1) shall give public notice of the categories of
such information to be released; and
‘‘(2) 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 younger than 18
years of age) to inform the agency, institution, orga-
nization, or other entity that any or all of such in-
formation should not be released without obtaining
prior consent from such student or such parent, as
the case may be.
‘‘(c) PROCEDURES FOR DETERMINATION.—The Sec-
retary of Defense shall prescribe regulations that contain
procedures for determining if and when an educational in-
stitution has denied or prevented access to students or in-
formation described in subsection (a).
‘‘(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
‘‘(1) The term ‘directory information’ means,
with respect to a student, the student’s name, ad-
dress, telephone listing, date and place of birth, level
of education, degrees received, and (if available) the
most recent previous educational program enrolled
in by the student.
‘‘(2) The term ‘student’ means an individual
enrolled in any program of education who is 17
years of age or older.’’.
(2) The table of sections at the beginning of such
chapter is amended by adding at the end the following
new item:
‘‘983. Student information for recruiting purposes: denial of Federal grants and
contracts to educational institutions that prohibit access.’’.