[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1123 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1123

To exclude grants for student financial assistance from the prohibition 
on certain departments and agencies of the Government making grants to 
institutions of higher education that prevent ROTC access to campus or 
                     military recruiting on campus.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 16, 1999

 Mr. Frank of Massachusetts (for himself and Mr. Campbell) introduced 
   the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed 
    Services, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the 
 Workforce, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
To exclude grants for student financial assistance from the prohibition 
on certain departments and agencies of the Government making grants to 
institutions of higher education that prevent ROTC access to campus or 
                     military recruiting on campus.

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

SECTION 1. GRANTS FOR STUDENT AID EXCEPTED FROM PROHIBITIONS ON FEDERAL 
              GRANTS TO INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION THAT PREVENT 
              ROTC ACCESS TO CAMPUS OR MILITARY RECRUITING ON CAMPUS.

    (a) Departments of Education, Labor, and Health and Human 
Services.--Section 514 of the Departments of Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 
(as contained in section 101(e) of division A of Public Law 104-208; 
110 Stat. 3009-270; 10 U.S.C. 503 note), is amended by striking ``by 
grant (including a grant of funds to be available for student aid) to a 
covered educational entity'' in subsections (a) and (b) and inserting 
``by grant to a covered educational entity, other than a grant of funds 
to a covered educational entity to be available solely for student 
financial assistance or related administrative costs,''.
    (b) Department of Defense.--(1) Section 983 of title 10, United 
States Code, is amended--
            (A) by striking ``No funds'' and all that follows through 
        ``student aid)'' and inserting ``Except as provided in 
        paragraph (3), no funds appropriated or otherwise available to 
        the Department of Defense may be obligated by contract or by 
        grant''; and
            (B) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(3) Paragraph (1) does not apply with respect to grants to be 
available solely for student financial assistance or related 
administrative costs.''.
    (2) Section 558(a) of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 1995 (10 U.S.C. 503 note) is amended--
            (A) by striking ``No funds'' in paragraph (1) and inserting 
        ``Except as provided in paragraph (3), no funds''; and
            (B) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(3) Paragraph (1) does not apply with respect to grants to be 
available solely for student financial assistance or related 
administrative costs.''.
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